01 / The Model
LLM
Large language model. The kind of model behind today’s AI assistants, trained on huge amounts of text to predict what comes next. When most people say AI right now, this is what they mean.
How you’ll hear it
“Is this built on an LLM?”
“Yes, a commercial one, with our own instructions and data around it.”
Avoid
Using LLM and AI as if they were the same thing.
The longer version
A large language model is trained on very large amounts of text to predict the next token. That one ability, at scale, produces writing, summarising, translation, analysis and code. LLMs are one kind of AI, and most business AI products today are an LLM plus a harness.