# LLM

Concept · [Building with AI](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ai)

Also called: large language model, language model

Large language model. The kind of AI behind [chat assistants](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/chatbot). It has learned patterns from a huge amount of text and produces a response by predicting which words should come next.

**For example:** You type a question into a [chat assistant](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/chatbot) and it writes back in full sentences. An LLM is producing that answer one small piece at a time.

## Connects to (32)

- [Prompt](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/prompt): The instructions or question you give an AI tool in everyday words.
- [Token](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/token): In AI, a small chunk of text, roughly a word or a piece of a word, that an LLM reads and writes.
- [Hallucination](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/hallucination): When an AI model states something false or invented as though it were true.
- [Model](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/model): The trained system at the center of an AI product.
- [Transformer](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/transformer): The design that most modern language models are built on, introduced by Google researchers in 2017.
- [Next-token prediction](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/next-token-prediction): The one job a language model performs.
- [Sentiment analysis](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/sentiment-analysis): Using software to classify the tone of text or speech, such as positive, negative or neutral, often across many customer messages at once.
- [API](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/terms/api): Application programming interface.
- [AI](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/terms/ai): Artificial intelligence.
- [AI agent](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ai-agent): An AI tool that does more than answer a question.
- [Inference](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/inference): An AI model producing an answer to a request.
- [Training](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/training): Teaching an AI model by showing it a very large number of examples before anyone uses it.
- [Embedding](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/embedding): A way of turning a piece of text into a list of numbers that captures its meaning, so software can tell which pieces of text are about…
- [Frontier model](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/frontier-model): One of the most capable general-purpose AI models available at a given time.
- [Multimodal](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/multimodal): Describes a model that works with more than one type of content, such as text plus images or audio.
- [AI chat assistant](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/chatbot): A finished app where a person types or talks to an AI model and gets replies in conversation.
- [Claude](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/claude): An AI chat assistant made by Anthropic.
- [ChatGPT](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/chatgpt): An AI chat assistant made by OpenAI.
- [Gemini](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/gemini): Google's AI chat assistant, which people type or talk to.
- [OklahomAI Developers Tulsa](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/oklahomai-developers-tulsa): A Tulsa meetup about AI for developers, AI enthusiasts and tech professionals.
- [Attention](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/attention): The part of a language model that decides, for each token, how much every other token in the input should shape its meaning.
- [Answer engine optimization](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/answer-engine-optimization): Making your content easy for AI chat and AI search tools to find, understand and cite when they answer people's questions.
- [Grok](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/grok): An AI chat assistant made by xAI.
- [Perplexity](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/perplexity): An AI search tool.
- [Google AI Studio](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/google-ai-studio): Google's web tool for trying Gemini models, testing prompts and getting an API key to build them into an app.
- [AI Overviews](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ai-overviews): AI-written summaries that Google Search shows at the top of some results, with links to the pages they draw on.
- [Apple Foundation Models](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/apple-foundation-models): Apple's on-device AI model and the framework that lets app developers use it on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
- [MicroGPT](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/microgpt): A very small GPT language model written by Andrej Karpathy in a few hundred lines of plain Python, meant to show how training and running…
- [Pangram](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/pangram): A tool that estimates whether a piece of writing was produced by AI.
- [Firecrawl](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/firecrawl): A service that turns web pages into clean text that AI models can use.
- [Blue J](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/blue-j): An AI research tool for tax professionals.
- [CS50 AI](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/cs50-ai): Harvard's free online course on the ideas behind modern AI, taught in Python, with topics such as search, machine learning and large…

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