An LLM, or Large Language Model, is a type of artificial intelligence model designed to understand, generate, and interact with human language at a sophisticated level. Here's a breakdown of what an LLM entails:

- Large: Refers to the model's scale, which can include billions of parameters and is trained on vast amounts of text data. This scale allows the model to capture complex patterns in language.

- Language: The model processes and generates text in one or multiple languages, understanding nuances, context, and semantics.

- Model: It's a machine learning model, typically based on neural network architectures like transformers, which are particularly good at handling sequences (like sentences or paragraphs).