How LLMs Work

You know how your phone tries to guess the next word when you're texting?

• You type: "I am going to the..."
• Phone suggests: "store", "park", "movies".

Large Language Models (LLMs) are just incredibly powerful versions of that.

They have read almost everything on the internet—books, websites, code. Because they've read so much, they know exactly which words usually follow each other.

If you say: "The capital of France is..."
The LLM knows, with 99.9% certainty, the next word is "Paris".