Gigabyte

Definitions

1. One billion (10⁹, or 1,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 megabytes.
   formal
2. A gibibyte.
   informal

Equivalents

Examples

“The IBM 3380 Direct⟳ Access Storage is a disk storage device with a storage capacity of 2.5 gigabytes (billion bytes) per unit, an increase⟳ of almost four times the capacity of the IBM 3350 Direct⟳ Access Storage.”

“It does not take⟳ much effort these days to accumulate several hundred gigabytes of data. A few hundred songs, a couple of vacations’ worth of photos, a dozen movies and television programs — and suddenly the 80 gigabyte hard drive⟳ in the notebook computer is straining.”

“In that trial, new customers can buy⟳ plans with a 5-gigabyte cap, a 20-gigabyte cap or a 40-gigabyte cap. Prices for those plans range from $30 to $50. Above the cap, customers pay⟳ $1 a gigabyte. Plans with higher caps come⟳ with faster service.”

“GPT-3 belongs to a category of deep learning known as a large language model⟳, a complex neural net that has been trained on a titanic data set⟳ of text: in GPT-3’s case, roughly 700 gigabytes of data drawn from across the web, including Wikipedia, supplemented with a large collection of text from digitized books. GPT-3 is the most celebrated of the large language models, and the most publicly available, but Google, Meta (formerly known as Facebook) and DeepMind have⟳ all developed their own⟳ L.L.M.s in recent years.”

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