Language isn’t always necessary. While it certainly helps in getting across certain ideas, some neuroscientists have argued that many forms of human thought and reasoning don’t require the medium of ...

There’s a paradox at the heart of modern AI: The kinds of sophisticated models that companies are using to get real work done and reduce head count aren’t the ones getting all the attention. Ever-more ...

What the firm found challenges some basic assumptions about how this technology really works. The AI firm Anthropic has developed a way to peer inside a large language model and watch what it does as ...

As large language models (LLMs) gain momentum worldwide, there’s a growing need for reliable ways to measure their performance. Benchmarks that evaluate LLM outputs allow developers to track ...

The rise of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized the capabilities of AI, allowing machines to generate human-like text, engage in conversations, and assist in decision-making processes.

The U.S. military is working on ways to get the power of cloud-based, big-data AI in tools that can run on local computers, draw upon more focused data sets, and remain safe from spying eyes, ...

Scoping review finds large language models can support glaucoma education and decision support, but accuracy and multimodal limits persist.

OpenAI Group PBC today launched a new large language model that it says is more adept at automating work tasks than its earlier algorithms. GPT-5.4 is available in ChatGPT, the Codex programming tool ...

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 ...

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 ...