WTF is an LLM? A Human-Friendly Guide to AI Brains
A large language model (LLM) is a neural network trained on enormous amounts of text to do one deceptively simple thing: predict the next token (roughly, the next word-piece) in a sequence. Do that well enough, at billions of parameters, and something surprising falls out — the model can answer questions, summarize documents, translate, and write code. Models like GPT, Claude, and Llama are all LLMs. This is the no-hype, human-friendly explanation of what they are and why they matter to anyone building software. ...