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What is LLMs and why is it so important?

4•anitroves•12h ago
At first I just thought it is name of file which tells AI about you website like domain/llms.txt file type urls but here on HN there are many people talking about it and taking it so much serious as a full industry so what it is basically.

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Jeremy1026•12h ago
domain/llms.txt is like a robots.txt for telling LLMs how to best interact with the site. The majority of "LLM" discussion on HackerNews has nothing to do with these instruction files though. LLM, or Large Language Model, is what people outside of the tech community are calling "AI". A lot of discussion is happening on HN about LLMs because they are the hot new technology. If they can fulfill their promises, the could revolutionize the world. Currently they are pretty good at producing decent looking text and code, but if you really dig into the outputs you'll find it is often quite sloppy.
anitroves•11h ago
Are they better than modern open source AI models or are models themselves are LLms
Jeremy1026•11h ago
The models themselves, like GPT from ChatGPT, Opus from Anthropic, etc. are just the "brands" of LLMs. But there are local models, that run on your own hardware as well like Qwen from Alibaba and Kimi K from Moonshot.

Kind of like how Pepsi and Coke are brands of cola.