Concepts & capability filters
language model
A language model predicts the next token over text — the mechanism behind every LLM you would evaluate.
- Category
- Not classified
- Difficulty
- Not classified
- Aliases
- None tracked
- Last reviewed
- 2026-07-02
Key facts
- Modern ones are Transformer-based and autoregressive; the practical differences you compare, like capability, context window, price, and latency, come from scale, training data, and tuning rather than the underlying next-token objective.