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LLM

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356 articles decelerating

51 articles in 2024Q1 marked LLM coverage’s peak as model launches, commercialization and legal disputes turned the technology into a platform battleground.

Who they are

LLM refers in this coverage to the large-language-model technology layer behind products and deployments from companies including OpenAI, Google, Meta, Anthropic, Microsoft and Apple, rather than to a single operating company. Stories use the term to connect foundation-model releases, consumer search and assistant features, enterprise infrastructure, research tools, and emerging agentic applications.

The recent arc

Coverage peaked in 2024Q1, driven by the contest to establish leading models and product distribution: Google introduced Gemini Ultra and renamed Bard, while Meta’s Llama 3 disclosure detailed 8B- and 70B-parameter models and a much larger model in development. That launch cycle was paired with scrutiny of the business and governance of model makers, including Elon Musk’s suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman and The New York Times’ copyright case against OpenAI and Microsoft.

LLM has appeared in 356 articles since 2022-11. Coverage peaked in 2024Q1 with 51 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Google, Meta, Mastodon, Bluesky.

Articles
356
mentions
Velocity
-93.5%
growth rate
Acceleration
-1.283
velocity change
Sources
106
publications

Coverage Timeline

2025-06-25
ai fray 65 related

A US judge rules Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train AI was fair use, but its storage of pirated books in a central library for training LLMs was not

but it's still in trouble for stealing books Blake Brittain / Reuters : Anthropic wins key US ruling on AI training in authors' copyright lawsuit Jason Koebler / 404 Media : Judge Rules Training AI on...

2025-06-12
Axios 48 related

Filing: Disney and NBCUniversal sue Midjourney in California, accusing it of direct and secondary copyright infringement; they say talks with Midjourney failed

www.reuters.com/business/med... Megan Farokhmanesh / @megannicolett : “bottomless pit of plagiarism” has a real ring to it www.wired.com/story/disney... Jason Read / @jasonread : Both Intellectual Pro...

2025-05-14
The Verge

FTC v. Meta: Meta's lead attorney disparaged tech journalists Kara Swisher and Om Malik, calling Malik a “failed blogger”, resurfacing years-old media tensions

Meta's lead attorney called a once-prominent tech journalist a “failed blogger.” Bluesky: @wavesblog , @karaswisher , @karaswisher , @quillmatiq.com , and @anildash.com X: @jason_kint , @jason_kint , ...

2025-02-13
Wall Street Journal 7 related

The Atlantic, Politico, Vox and others sue Cohere, alleging it used copyrighted works to train its LLM and shared versions of entire articles without permission

Lawsuit accuses Canadian company of sharing versions of entire articles without permission  —  The Atlantic, Politico …

2025-01-15
Courthouse News Service 6 related

In federal court, lawyers for Microsoft and OpenAI defended the scraping of news stories to train LLMs and urged the dismissal of news outlets' copyright claims

I really have no idea how those arguments landed. Kate Knibbs / @knibbs : Daily News & NYT lawyer now speaking.  Pushing back on the idea that the publishers should've known about the ingestion prior ...

2024-11-08
Reuters 12 related

A US federal judge dismisses Raw Story and AlterNet's copyright lawsuit against OpenAI over LLM training, for now, saying the outlets couldn't show enough harm

A New York federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence giant OpenAI that claimed it misused articles …

2024-03-02
Courthouse News Service 78 related

Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing them of betraying OpenAI's founding agreement to develop an AGI for the “benefit of humanity” rather than profit

“It's a fun complaint to read; it fundamentally accuses OpenAI & its CEO, Sam Altman, of pretending to run a nonprofit designed to benefit humanity while actually running a regular ol' tech company & ...

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Quarterly Coverage

Top Sources

Narrative

LLM has appeared in 205 tech news articles since November 2022. The biggest stories include Apple refreshes the 14" and 16" MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max: up to 4x faster LLM... and Apple refreshes the 14" and 16" MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max: up to 4x faster LLM.... Frequently covered alongside Google, Meta, Gemini, Apple, and Nvidia. Coverage has shifted toward consumer themes and away from funding, competition.

Key Moments

2024Q2enterprise +25pts; safety -8pts; consumer +8pts
2024Q3enterprise -19pts; developer +6pts; consumer +19pts
2024Q4safety +17pts; developer -19pts; consumer -21pts

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