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1. The raw material

LLM (large language model)

The engine underneath everything in this dictionary: a program trained on enormous amounts of text that predicts what words should come next. That single trick — done at massive scale — turns out to cover writing, summarizing, coding, planning, and conversation.

Why it matters: every agent, copilot, and chatbot is an LLM wearing different clothes. Understand the engine and the rest stops being magic.