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Language Model

An AI model that understands and generates human language.

Definition

An AI model that understands and generates human language. At its core, it predicts the probability of the next word in a sequence. Modern large language models (LLMs) scale this simple idea to billions of parameters and trillions of training tokens, producing remarkably capable systems.

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Large Language Model

An AI model with billions of parameters trained on massive text datasets.

NLP

Natural Language Processing.

Transformer

The neural network architecture behind virtually all modern AI language models.

Activation Function

A mathematical function applied to a neuron's output that introduces non-linearity into the network.

Adam Optimizer

An optimization algorithm that combines the best parts of two other methods — AdaGrad and RMSProp.

AGI

Artificial General Intelligence.

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