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The name, in plain words

LLM = Large Language Model

Large means big: lots of knobs (parameters), lots of training text, lots of compute.

Language model means: it learns patterns of language well enough to guess what word (token) is likely to come next.

Tokens

text pieces

Transformer stack

many Lego bricks

Next-word chances

what to say next

Tokens → Transformer stackTransformer stack → Next-word chances
The short path