Glossary · AI & ML

Large Language Model

An AI model trained on vast text data that can understand and generate human language, powering text-to-SQL and conversational AI.

A large language model (LLM) is a type of artificial intelligence model trained on enormous datasets of text to understand and generate human language. LLMs use transformer architectures with billions of parameters, enabling them to perform a wide range of language tasks: translation, summarization, question answering, code generation, and–critically for database tools–text-to-SQL conversion. Models like GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, and Llama represent the state of the art. LLMs power modern AI database interfaces by understanding user intent, mapping natural language to database schemas, and generating syntactically correct, semantically accurate SQL queries.

Fig — every answer ships with the tables, rows and SQL behind it.