The arrival of AI systems called large language models (LLMs), like OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, has been heralded as the start of a new technological era. And they may indeed have significant impacts on ...

How large is a large language model? Think about it this way. In the center of San Francisco there’s a hill called Twin Peaks from which you can view nearly the entire city. Picture all of it—every ...

Large language models (LLMs) have become crucial tools in the pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI). However, as the user base expands and the frequency of usage increases, deploying these ...

When choosing a large language model (LLM) for use in a particular task, one of the first things that people often look at is the model's parameter count. A vendor might offer several different ...

The proliferation of edge AI will require fundamental changes in language models and chip architectures to make inferencing and learning outside of AI data centers a viable option. The initial goal ...

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) might sound like a task reserved for tech wizards with endless resources, but the reality is far more approachable—and surprisingly exciting. If you’ve ever ...

This line of defense could be the strongest yet. But no shield is perfect. AI firm Anthropic has developed a new line of defense against a common kind of attack called a jailbreak. A jailbreak tricks ...

Chances are, you’ve seen clicks to your website from organic search results decline since about May 2024—when AI Overviews launched. Large language model optimization (LLMO), a set of tactics for ...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems may be able to produce some eye-opening results but new research shows they don’t have a coherent understanding of the world and real rules. When tasked ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Large language models work well because they’re so large. The latest models from OpenAI, Meta, and DeepSeek use hundreds of billions of ...