How do LLMs work? The Transformer Architecture Explained

Good morning fellow AI enthusiast! This week's iteration focuses on no other than large language models, like GPT, Llama, Claude, and others. These models all have building blocks in common to understand and generate words. Let's dive into how they do that!

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How do LLMs work? The Transformer Architecture Explained with Jay Alammar

A few weeks ago, I had the luck to talk with probably the best educator in the AI space in my podcast: Jay Alammar from Cohere . During the interview, I asked if he could explain the architecture behind all recent large language models as simply as possible.

More precisely, we dived into the generative parts of the transformers' architecture and its different building blocks (e.g., tokenizers, attention, feed-forward networks...). If these don't ring any bell, this video is for you!

After this video, you’ll have a good overview of how LLMs answer questions but, even more importantly, how this type of AI model can predict the next word of a sentence…

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