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12 Of The Best Large Language Models

whatis.com, Friday, July 14,2023

Large language models have been affecting search for years and have been brought to the forefront by ChatGPT and other chatbots.

Large language models are the dynamite behind the generative AI boom of 2023. However, they've been around for a while.

LLMs are black box AI systems that use deep learning on extremely large datasets to understand and generate new text. Modern LLMs began taking shape in 2014 when the attention mechanism -- a machine learning technique designed to mimic human cognitive attention -- was introduced in a research paper titled "Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate." In 2017, that attention mechanism was honed with the introduction of the transformer model in another paper, "Attention Is All You Need."

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