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How Large Language Models Learn: Self-Supervised Training at Internet Scale
How Large Language Models Learn: Self-Supervised Training at Internet Scale

Tamara Weed, Sep, 30 2025

Large language models learn by predicting the next word across trillions of internet text samples using self-supervised training. This method, used by GPT-4, Llama 3, and Claude 3, enables unprecedented language understanding without human labeling - but comes with major costs and ethical challenges.

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