gigabyte

plural gigabytes

1. formalcomputingOne billion (10⁹, or 1,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 megabytes.

   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.

   1981, IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage Description and User's Guide, IBM, page 1

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   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.

   2007 August 2, larry Magid, “On a Home Network, the Right Drive Means Storage for All”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020

   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.

   2008 June 15, Brian Stelter, “To Curb Traffic on the Internet, Access Providers Consider Charging by the Gigabyte”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 Jan 2018

   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.

   2022 April 15, Steven Johnson, “A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2022

2. informalcomputingA gibibyte.