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Context Window

The maximum amount of text a language model can process at once, measured in tokens.

Definition

The maximum amount of text a language model can process at once, measured in tokens. GPT-4 Turbo has a 128K context window; Claude can handle 200K+. Larger context windows let models work with longer documents but use more memory and compute. A key differentiator between models.

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