AI Models: In-Depth Analysis
In-depth analysis of AI model architectures: LLMs, reasoning models, world models, VLMs, and small models. Curated by Turing Post for AI practitioners.
AI 101
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16 min read
Jul 21, 2026
Reasoning Models Explained: o1, DeepSeek-R1 & Beyond
What is a reasoning model? How it differs from standard LLMs, how Chain-of-Thought works, and how to compare o1, DeepSeek-R1, Qwen 3 & top models of 2026.
AI 101
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8 min read
Jul 10, 2026
Whisper Model Explained: OpenAI’s Open-Source Speech Recognition Model in 2026
Learn how OpenAI’s Whisper model works, what it does well, where it fails, and how to run Whisper locally or through an API.
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16 min read
Jul 6, 2026
VLA Models Explained: Architecture, Types & the Leap to VLA+
What are VLA models? Learn Vision-Language-Action architecture, key systems (π0, Helix, SmolVLA) & the leap to VLA+. Deep dive.
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11 min read
Jul 1, 2026
What is Qwen-Agent framework? Inside the Qwen family
Qwen-Agent explained: tool calling, planning, memory, and how to build AI agents with Alibaba's open-source Qwen models — from QwQ-32B to Qwen2.5-VL.
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14 min read
Jun 18, 2026
What Is JEPA? LeCun Architecture & World Models
JEPA is Yann LeCun's framework for world modeling: predicts abstract representations, not pixels. Covers I-JEPA, V-JEPA, VL-JEPA, LeJEPA, and physical AI.
AI 101
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15 min read
Jun 4, 2026
What is Cosmos World Foundation Model Platform?
NVIDIA Cosmos is a world foundation model platform for Physical AI: tokenizer, diffusion and autoregressive WFMs, guardrails, and Cosmos 3 omnimodal world model.
AI 101
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11 min read
May 31, 2026
LeJEPA: Provable Self-Supervised Learning Without Heuristic
LeJEPA by Yann LeCun: provably stable self-supervised learning without heuristics. SIGReg, isotropic Gaussian embeddings & world models explained.
AI 101
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13 min read
Apr 8, 2026
AI 101: Gemma 4 with OpenClaw: Architecture, Setup, and Why Developers Are Switching
Gemma 4 runs locally via Ollama with zero API cost. Full architecture breakdown — attention mix, MoE, per-layer embeddings — and why OpenClaw users are switching from Claude.
AI 101
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12 min read
Mar 18, 2026
Nemotron 3 and the Surprising Coalition Building New AI in the Open
Nemotron Coalition is NVIDIA's bet on open frontier AI — with Mistral, Cursor, Black Forest Labs and others. How Nemotron 3 works and who holds power.
AI 101
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9 min read
Nov 12, 2025
Kimi K2 Thinking: Inside Moonshot AI's Agentic Reasoning Model
Kimi K2 Thinking is Moonshot AI's open reasoning agent: 200–300 tool calls, 256K context, INT4 quantization. Architecture, benchmarks, and real use cases.
AI 101
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13 min read
Oct 8, 2025
AI 101: What's New in World Models?
Meta's Code World Model, Stanford PSI, Dreamer 4, Genie 3, and Cosmos WFM 2.5 — what's new in world models for coding, video, and robotics in 2025.
AI 101
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12 min read
Aug 6, 2025
AI 101: Everything You Need to Know about GPT OSS
What is GPT-OSS? OpenAI's open-weight MoE models explained: architecture, Ollama setup, memory requirements, and benchmarks vs DeepSeek & Qwen3.
AI 101
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4 min read
Jul 23, 2025
4 Outstanding Families of Models You Must Know About
Refreshing Smol and Qwen models, Liquid Foundation Models with latest Hyena Edge, and legendary BERT
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12 min read
May 28, 2025
Decoding BERT: From Original NLP Game-Changer to Today's Efficient AI (feat. ConstBERT)
What is BERT in NLP? Learn how BERT works—MLM, NSP, fine-tuning—plus modern variants like RoBERTa, DistilBERT, ModernBERT, and ConstBERT in 2026.
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11 min read
Apr 30, 2025
Can Liquid Models Beat Transformers? Meet Hyena Edge – the Newest Member of the LFM Family
What are Liquid Foundation Models? LFM-1B to 40B benchmarks, Hyena Edge architecture, memory efficiency vs Transformers.
AI 101
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12 min read
Apr 9, 2025
What are World Models?
World models are AI systems that simulate environments and predict future states in response to actions — unlike LLMs. Covers DreamerV3, Cosmos, JEPA, and more.
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12 min read
Feb 26, 2025
Inside the family of Smol models
SmolLM2, SmolVLM, and SmolVLM2 explained: how Hugging Face trains small language models on curated datasets and multi-stage pipelines
AI 101
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6 min read
Nov 27, 2024
LLaVA-o1: Step-by-Step Visual Reasoning VLM Explained
LLaVA-o1 reasons step-by-step through 4 structured stages & stage-level beam search. How it works, benchmarks vs GPT-4o-mini & Gemini-1.5-pro, and where it falls short.
AI 101
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7 min read
Nov 6, 2024
Inside Les Ministraux: Mistral's Small Model Strategy
Trace Mistral AI's roadmap from Mistral 7B to Mixtral 8×7B and Ministral. Architecture, benchmarks, and edge computing use cases.
AI 101
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5 min read
Sep 25, 2024
What is OLMoE?
OLMoE: open-source sparse Mixture-of-Experts with 1B active and 7B total parameters. How it works, how it was trained, and why it matters for open-source AI.
