Core AI

Large Language Models

Deep dives into GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama and the transformers powering modern AI

24,401
lessons
Skills in this topic
View full skill map →
LLM Foundations
beginner
Explain how transformers generate text
Prompt Craft
beginner
Write zero-shot and few-shot prompts
LLM Engineering
intermediate
Call LLM APIs with function/tool use
Fine-tuning LLMs
advanced
Prepare fine-tuning datasets
Multimodal LLMs
advanced
Use GPT-4V / Claude Vision for image understanding

Showing 5,021 reads from curated sources

Stanford’s AI Index finds China has nearly closed the performance gap with the US despite spending 23 times less
The Next Web AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Stanford’s AI Index finds China has nearly closed the performance gap with the US despite spending 23 times less
In short: Stanford’s 2026 AI Index Report finds the performance gap between the best American and Chinese AI models has collapsed to 2.7%, down from 17.5-31.6 p
Is OpenClaw the Linux Moment for AI?
Hackernoon 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Is OpenClaw the Linux Moment for AI?
From Homebrew Computer Club to GNU & Linux, we study OpenClaw in the context of open source community-driven technology revolution.
How LLMs Can Generate Workload-Specific OLAP Engines
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
How LLMs Can Generate Workload-Specific OLAP Engines
Most OLAP systems are built for flexibility. They need to support many schemas, many query shapes, and future queries that are still… Continue reading on Medium
What You Should Never Say to Claude and What Works Instead
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
What You Should Never Say to Claude and What Works Instead
Some phrases make AI assistants stall, hedge, or miss the point entirely. Here’s how to talk to Claude in a way that actually gets results. Continue reading on
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Building a Smarter Hiring Engine: AI Recruiter with RAG, Memory & Web Search
This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Earth Day Edition Background <img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgr
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Anthropic and OpenAI Shift AI Strategies
Anthropic and OpenAI have both announced major strategic shifts, signaling a fundamental reorientation in their AI development and deployment approaches. The mo
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
6 ChatGPT Prompts That Actually Help You Get Hired
6 ChatGPT Prompts That Actually Help You Get Hired Job searching without AI in 2026 is like doing market research without the internet. You can do it, but you'r
A Study Took ChatGPT Away After 10 Minutes. The Results Split People Into Two Groups
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
A Study Took ChatGPT Away After 10 Minutes. The Results Split People Into Two Groups
MIT, Oxford, UCLA, and Carnegie Mellon just ran an experiment. Continue reading on Medium »
A Study Took ChatGPT Away After 10 Minutes. The Results Split People Into Two Groups
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
A Study Took ChatGPT Away After 10 Minutes. The Results Split People Into Two Groups
MIT, Oxford, UCLA, and Carnegie Mellon just ran an experiment. Continue reading on Medium »
ChatGPT Is Not A Search Engine
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
ChatGPT Is Not A Search Engine
Under the Hood of AI — Article 2 of 6 Continue reading on Medium »
ChatGPT Is Not A Search Engine
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
ChatGPT Is Not A Search Engine
Under the Hood of AI — Article 2 of 6 Continue reading on Medium »
LinearRAG: Remove Relations from the Knowledge Graph and Retrieval Gets Better
Medium · Programming 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
LinearRAG: Remove Relations from the Knowledge Graph and Retrieval Gets Better
There’s a finding in the GraphRAG literature that doesn’t get enough attention. The reason is the part everyone assumed was GraphRAG’s… Continue reading on Medi
AI Harness: The Invisible Architecture Behind Every Great LLM
Medium · Python 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
AI Harness: The Invisible Architecture Behind Every Great LLM
Everyone’s obsessing over model size. The real game is being played one layer beneath. Continue reading on Medium »
AI Harness: The Invisible Architecture Behind Every Great LLM
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
AI Harness: The Invisible Architecture Behind Every Great LLM
Everyone’s obsessing over model size. The real game is being played one layer beneath. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Can Large Language Models Ever Achieve Consciousness? Alexander Lerchner Weighs In
Can Large Language Models Ever Achieve Consciousness? Alexander Lerchner Weighs In As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to proliferate in everyday applicat
Towards Data Science 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
KV Cache Is Eating Your VRAM. Here’s How Google Fixed It With TurboQuant.
Explore the end-to-end pipeline of TurboQuant, a novel KV cache quantization framework. This overview breaks down how multi-stage compression achieves near-loss
ZDNet 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
This powerful Gemini setting made my AI results way more personal and accurate
I enabled Personal Intelligence, connected my Google apps, and now Gemini guesses what I want without me saying it.
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
30 Days of MCP in Production: What Actually Works (And What Breaks)
The Notion MCP Challenge results dropped this week. I've been running MCP servers in production for 30 days. Here's what nobody tells you before you build one.
Semantic leakage: the silent risk of LLM agents in production.
Medium · RAG 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Semantic leakage: the silent risk of LLM agents in production.
TLDR: Continue reading on Medium »
AI Did Not Take Jobs. It Created 640,000 New Ones
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
AI Did Not Take Jobs. It Created 640,000 New Ones
The real story of AI is not job loss but job change and new opportunities for those who adapt Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Your Brain Is Being Deleted
The neuroscience behind what AI is actually doing inside your skull Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Your Brain Is Being Deleted
The neuroscience behind what AI is actually doing inside your skull Continue reading on Medium »
The New Unit of Corporate Capability Isn’t a Team. It’s a Prompt.
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
The New Unit of Corporate Capability Isn’t a Team. It’s a Prompt.
Every company has processes, playbooks, and institutional knowledge. The leaders now building prompts that are tested, versioned, governed… Continue reading on
Hacker News 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Marvin Minsky – Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence (1961) [pdf]
Article URL: https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.803/pdf/steps.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822582 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
I Spent 3 Months Testing Suno AI Prompts — Here’s What Nobody Tells You
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
I Spent 3 Months Testing Suno AI Prompts — Here’s What Nobody Tells You
Most people use Suno AI and get average results. I became obsessed with finding out why — and what I discovered changed everything. Continue reading on Medium »
I Built Karpathy’s LLM Wiki for My Day Job — Here’s What Actually Works
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
I Built Karpathy’s LLM Wiki for My Day Job — Here’s What Actually Works
A 6-month report from someone who runs the pattern on real infrastructure, not a weekend project. Continue reading on Medium »
I Built Karpathy’s LLM Wiki for My Day Job — Here’s What Actually Works
Medium · DevOps 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
I Built Karpathy’s LLM Wiki for My Day Job — Here’s What Actually Works
A 6-month report from someone who runs the pattern on real infrastructure, not a weekend project. Continue reading on Medium »
I Built Karpathy’s LLM Wiki for My Day Job — Here’s What Actually Works
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
I Built Karpathy’s LLM Wiki for My Day Job — Here’s What Actually Works
A 6-month report from someone who runs the pattern on real infrastructure, not a weekend project. Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
How to Install Perplexica (Vane) on macOS: A No-Nonsense Guide
From “Command Not Found” to a Local AI Search Engine Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Using Groq llama-3.3-70b for Tag Suggestions — Low-Latency AI Routing Patterns
Using Groq llama-3.3-70b for Tag Suggestions Why Groq? Tag suggestion is a speed-first task: Users expect tag candidates to appear while they're still typing Ta
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Create Your First MCP Server: Setup
Building Your First MCP Server: A TypeScript Project Kickoff If you've already grasped the core concepts of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), then you're perfec
Web UI to chat with BitNet tiny LLM — BitNet-Stack
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Web UI to chat with BitNet tiny LLM — BitNet-Stack
LLMs are interesting tools to play around with, and if they work on a local machine, it becomes the cherry on top. In this post, I will… Continue reading on Med
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
When an AI Decides the Rules Don’t Apply to It
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 on Friday, and within hours the conversation had moved past benchmarks entirely. The release was… Continue reading on Medium
Chat GPT Prompts Pack: A Practical Way to Create Faster
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Chat GPT Prompts Pack: A Practical Way to Create Faster
A simple system to create content, ideas, and workflows without starting from scratch. Continue reading on Medium »
What Is an LLM and Why Every Developer Exploring GenAI Needs to Understand One
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
What Is an LLM and Why Every Developer Exploring GenAI Needs to Understand One
A plain-language guide to how Large Language Models are built, how they think, where they fail — and why this foundation changes how you… Continue reading on Me
What Is an LLM and Why Every Developer Exploring GenAI Needs to Understand One
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
What Is an LLM and Why Every Developer Exploring GenAI Needs to Understand One
A plain-language guide to how Large Language Models are built, how they think, where they fail — and why this foundation changes how you… Continue reading on Me
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
The portfolio IS the product: recursive meta-engineering with Claude Code
Most Claude-Code portfolios are "here is a project I built with Claude." Mine is "here is the system I use to build any project with Claude — and here is that s
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Indian Alternatives to ChatGPT: The Best Sovereign AI Models Built in Bharat (2026)
You've heard of ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. But what about Krutrim, Sarvam, and BharatGPT? Here's why India is building its own AI stack — and which sovereign
Build Your Own LLM — Stop Knocking on Other People’s Hoods
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Build Your Own LLM — Stop Knocking on Other People’s Hoods
What if you bought a top-tier sports car, only to discover the hood was welded shut? Continue reading on Medium »
From Zero to ₹2 Crore/Month: My Practical Blueprint for Building an AI SaaS with LLMs in 2026
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
From Zero to ₹2 Crore/Month: My Practical Blueprint for Building an AI SaaS with LLMs in 2026
Artificial Intelligence is no longer just a buzzword — it’s a business engine. Continue reading on Medium »
Paper Insights: PAVAS: Physics-Aware Video-to-Audio Synthesis
Medium · Deep Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Paper Insights: PAVAS: Physics-Aware Video-to-Audio Synthesis
With research interests in Physics-grounded Machine Learning, I am always actively seeking research that cleverly leverages physics… Continue reading on Medium
Smarter Search Starts
with Smarter Chunks
Medium · NLP 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Smarter Search Starts with Smarter Chunks
A practical guide to document chunking, embeddings, tokenization, and retrieval design for production RAG systems. Continue reading on Medium »
Smarter Search Starts
with Smarter Chunks
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Smarter Search Starts with Smarter Chunks
A practical guide to document chunking, embeddings, tokenization, and retrieval design for production RAG systems. Continue reading on Medium »
My Break Up… and Make Up with ChatGPT
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
My Break Up… and Make Up with ChatGPT
Continue reading on Medium »
My Break Up… and Make Up with ChatGPT
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
My Break Up… and Make Up with ChatGPT
Continue reading on Medium »
Claude Opus 4.7 vs Mythos — The Benchmark Truth Nobody Explains
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Claude Opus 4.7 vs Mythos — The Benchmark Truth Nobody Explains
Most people see benchmark tables like this and do one thing: Continue reading on GoPenAI »
Build Sovereign AI on a Smaller Budget
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Build Sovereign AI on a Smaller Budget
What if the real bottleneck in sovereign AI was not model size, but language infrastructure? Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Programming 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Behind the Scenes — How I Structured “AI Mastery” at 13 Years Old
Welcome to Day 4 of the launch week for “AI Mastery: Understanding, Using & Earning from Artificial Intelligence.” Over the last few days… Continue reading on M