Transformers — The Architecture That Changed AI (Part 1 of 3)

1Key Takeaways

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• In June 2017, a team at Google published a paper with a deceptively simple title: "Attention Is All You Need." Eight authors, fourteen pages, and one architecture that would go on to power GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, AlphaFold, and virtually every breakthrough in AI since.
• The Transformer didn't just improve on existing models.