Artificial Intelligence

Large language model (LLM)

Definition

AI model trained on enormous amounts of text that can generate, summarize, translate, and reason over natural language. The foundation of conversational assistants and generative AI tools.

Exam context

In AI-901: the GPT-5 family (and variants such as GPT-5-mini) are OpenAI's LLMs, accessible via Azure OpenAI in Microsoft Foundry. Related concepts: prompts (instructions to the model), temperature (creativity), tokens (units of text). Difference from classic ML: LLMs are generative models, not just predictive ones.

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