25 Years of Language Models: From Statistical NLP to Modern LLMs
History of language models from 2001 to 2026 in 25 dated steps, from n-gram counts and word embeddings to Transformers, ChatGPT, reasoning models and agents.
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30 Key Breakthroughs That Shaped Modern Large Language Models
30 technical breakthroughs behind modern LLMs, from word2vec and attention to scaling laws, RLHF, LoRA, FlashAttention and RL for reasoning, with key formulas.
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15 Major Milestones in the Evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs)
15 turning points in large language models from the 2017 Transformer to 2026 agents, with what changed before and after each one and the lesson it left.
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