Large Language Model (LLM)
A large language model is an AI system trained on vast amounts of text to understand and generate human language. It powers assistants like ChatGPT and Claude, and in industry is increasingly used to search documents, draft reports and make maintenance and process knowledge accessible.
LLMs predict and generate text, which makes them strong at summarising, drafting, explaining and answering questions in natural language. In industrial settings they are applied to turn decades of manuals, procedures and maintenance logs into a searchable, conversational knowledge base, to draft work orders and reports, and to act as an interface to data. Their weakness is factual reliability, so outputs that matter must be verified.
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