parameter

They also note that every parameter in the VLE carries significant uncertainty, much like the Drake Equation.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026

“The exchange rate is not a trigger parameter for the ECB.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026

By the yardstick of its own goals, the nation’s second-largest school system is likely to fall short by nearly every parameter — taking in sample measures of literacy, math and social emotional learning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2026

"This would require moving away from simply using caste as the parameter for redistribution of available resources, to use of both caste and income levels in policymaking."

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025

So they use parameter to mean a boundary, a characteristic, a component, an element, a feature, an ingredient, a part, a perimeter, a quality, or a requirement.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

Alibaba’s new model has 2.4 trillion parameters, and the company plans to make it open-weight soon for developers to download and modify.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

With 2.8 trillion parameters, Kimi K3 will be the world’s largest open-source model when Moonshot AI shares the model’s weights later this month.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

Within Kimi K3’s 2.8 trillion parameters, the model’s active parameters are only roughly 50 billion, according to the open-source community Hugging Face.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

The recovery came even as Alibaba previewed a new large-language model, Qwen3.8 Max, that it said was second only to Anthropic’s Fable 5, with 2.4 trillion parameters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

“Today, you shall lay the groundwork for my next gleaning,” Scythe Faraday told him, then gave him a list of parameters that tomorrow’s subject should have.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman