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The History of LLMs

Uncovering the origins of contemporary large language models and unveiling ChatGPT's success

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The History of LLMsThe History of LLMs
Who came up with the term "attention"?
Dec 14, 2024

Who came up with the term "attention"?

Dzmitry Bahdanau? Yoshua Bengio? Jürgen Schmidhuber? Inspired by Andrej Karpathy and in collaboration with Hugging Face, we clarify the history of "attention"

Ksenia Se
Ksenia Se
The History of LLMsThe History of LLMs
The History of LLMs Series – Recap
Aug 16, 2023

The History of LLMs Series – Recap

Uncovering the origins of contemporary large language models and unveiling ChatGPT's success

Valeriia Kuka
Valeriia Kuka
The History of LLMsThe History of LLMs
AI Bubble Bursting into AI Winter – yes or no? (History of LLMs #5)
Aug 12, 2023

AI Bubble Bursting into AI Winter – yes or no? (History of LLMs #5)

Navigating the AI Hype: Deep Analysis of the Situation with Strategies For Investors

Ksenia Se
Tasmia Ansari
Ksenia Se, +1
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The secret sauce behind ChatGPT and other important LLMs (History of LLMs #4)
Jul 14, 2023

The secret sauce behind ChatGPT and other important LLMs (History of LLMs #4)

Unveiling the Impact of LLMs on Natural Language Processing and the Future of AI

Valeriia Kuka
Valeriia Kuka
The History of LLMsThe History of LLMs
There Would Have Been No LLMs Without This (History of LLMs #3)
Jul 07, 2023

There Would Have Been No LLMs Without This (History of LLMs #3)

Game-changing 1990s: the bloom of NN, success of RNNLM and backpropagation, introduction of GPUs and advent of Transformers

Valeriia Kuka
Ksenia Se
Valeriia Kuka, +1
The History of LLMsThe History of LLMs
The Story of AI Winters and What it Teaches Us Today (History of LLMs. Bonus)
Jun 30, 2023

The Story of AI Winters and What it Teaches Us Today (History of LLMs. Bonus)

In the long run, AI was possible and promising, but its wave had yet to rise

Valeriia Kuka
Valeriia Kuka
The History of LLMsThe History of LLMs
Fascinating birth of AI, first chatbots and the power of US Department of Defense (History of LLMs #2)
Jun 23, 2023

Fascinating birth of AI, first chatbots and the power of US Department of Defense (History of LLMs #2)

Discover the pivotal role of cognitive sciences in the rebirth of NLP and the journey from machine translation to artificial intelligence

Valeriia Kuka
Ksenia Se
Valeriia Kuka, +1
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The Era of Mechanical Translation and How It Crashed (History of LLMs #1)
Jun 16, 2023

The Era of Mechanical Translation and How It Crashed (History of LLMs #1)

A new fascinating series about the history of large language models (LLMs)

Valeriia Kuka
Ksenia Se
Valeriia Kuka, +1
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