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Large Language Models
Deep dives into GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama and the transformers powering modern AI
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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
ArXiv cs.AI
🧠 Large Language Models
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16h ago
A Reproducible Benchmark of Lightweight CNNs: Accuracy, Efficiency, and the Impact of Pretrained Initialization
arXiv:2505.03303v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Lightweight convolutional neural networks are often compared using results obtained with different tra
ArXiv cs.AI
🧠 Large Language Models
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16h ago
Dataset Construction for Training LLM to Learn Analog Circuit Knowledge
arXiv:2508.10409v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper constructs a textual dataset for training large language models (LLMs) to learn analog circ
ArXiv cs.AI
🧠 Large Language Models
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16h ago
Distilling the Essence: Efficient Reasoning Distillation via Sequence Truncation
arXiv:2512.21002v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Distilling the capabilities from a large reasoning model (LRM) to a smaller student model often involv
ArXiv cs.AI
🧠 Large Language Models
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16h ago
InfiniteWeb: Scalable Web Environment Synthesis for GUI Agent Training
arXiv:2601.04126v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: GUI agents that interact with graphical interfaces on behalf of users represent a promising direction
ArXiv cs.AI
🧠 Large Language Models
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⚡ AI Lesson
16h ago
From Similarity to Vulnerability: Key Collision Attack on LLM Semantic Caching
arXiv:2601.23088v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Semantic caching has emerged as a pivotal technique for scaling LLM applications, widely adopted by ma
ArXiv cs.AI
🧠 Large Language Models
📄 Paper
⚡ AI Lesson
16h ago
DeXposure-FM: A Time-series, Graph Foundation Model for Credit Exposures and Stability on Decentralized Financial Networks
arXiv:2602.03981v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Credit exposure in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is often implicit and token-mediated, creating a dense

Medium · Machine Learning
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
16h ago
Building an Agentic AI Data Science Team with LLMs: A Multi-Agent Machine Learning Workflow
How I designed a multi-agent system that frames machine learning problems, engineers features, trains and evaluates models, performs… Continue reading on Medium

Medium · Data Science
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
16h ago
Building an Agentic AI Data Science Team with LLMs: A Multi-Agent Machine Learning Workflow
How I designed a multi-agent system that frames machine learning problems, engineers features, trains and evaluates models, performs… Continue reading on Medium

Medium · ChatGPT
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
16h ago
I Tried ChatGPT Alternatives — Here’s the Truth
Not the polished review kind. The confused-at-2AM, slightly disappointed, but honestly curious kind. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · ChatGPT
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
17h ago
Why ChatGPT Makes Smart People Sound Surprisingly Average
The biggest risk of AI isn’t that it writes badly. It’s that it makes average thinking sound complete. Continue reading on Medium »

Dev.to · kapil Maheshwari
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
17h ago
Streaming vs Batching LLM Responses: A Cost and Latency Analysis
Explore the trade-offs between streaming and batching LLM responses to optimize costs and latency for your startup.

Medium · Machine Learning
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
17h ago
What Is RAG? The Story Behind Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Why It Changed AI Forever
Part 1 of the “Complete Guide to Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)” series Continue reading on Artificial Intelligence in Plain English »

Medium · NLP
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
17h ago
What Is RAG? The Story Behind Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Why It Changed AI Forever
Part 1 of the “Complete Guide to Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)” series Continue reading on Artificial Intelligence in Plain English »

Dev.to · 龚旭东
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
17h ago
How We Translate 300-Page Books Using Claude Without Hitting Token Limits
Breaking long documents into overlapping chunks, preserving context, and reassembling with...
Medium · AI
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
17h ago
Building HITL Feedback RAG: Embeddings, Retrieval, and Reranking
This is the hands-on companion to Part 1: Your LLM Isn’t Dumb — It Just Lacks Your Context. There, we covered the idea: LLMs fail on your… Continue reading on M
Medium · LLM
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
17h ago
Building HITL Feedback RAG: Embeddings, Retrieval, and Reranking
This is the hands-on companion to Part 1: Your LLM Isn’t Dumb — It Just Lacks Your Context. There, we covered the idea: LLMs fail on your… Continue reading on T

Dev.to · routerbasecom
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
17h ago
A simple way to test model fallbacks with RouterBase
Fallback logic is easier to reason about when the application has one request shape and the model...

Medium · Programming
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
18h ago
Why I Stopped Asking AI “What Should I Do?”
A subtle prompting mistake that was holding me back Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · LLM
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
18h ago
Learning at the Learning Conference: A Brief from ICLR 2026
Highlights from the TELUS Digital Research Hub for teams building with — and around — LLMs and agents. Continue reading on TELUS Digital Research Hub Briefs »

Medium · LLM
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
18h ago
AI Update — July 1, 2026: 5 Things That Just Dropped
Astra glasses ship, Codex agents code for you, Qwen 3 Max goes open, FSD goes unsupervised, and AI voices just got legal. Continue reading on Adi Insights & Inn
TechCrunch AI
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
18h ago
Trump drops restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable models
Anthropic said it would begin restoring access to the Fable on July 1.

Reddit r/ChatGPT
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
18h ago
plz no
prompt: An authentic, completely ordinary iPhone photo taken by an employee at work. Somewhere in the scene is a professionally designed warning sign telling pe

Medium · JavaScript
🧠 Large Language Models
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18h ago
The Journey of a Prompt Inside ChatGPT
Every day, millions of people ask ChatGPT millions of questions. Whether it’s writing code, debugging applications, learning a new concept… Continue reading on

Medium · ChatGPT
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
18h ago
The Journey of a Prompt Inside ChatGPT
Every day, millions of people ask ChatGPT millions of questions. Whether it’s writing code, debugging applications, learning a new concept… Continue reading on
Medium · LLM
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
18h ago
Prompt Engineering: Getting the Words Right, and the Hole Underneath
Continuing the series where I share what I’m learning about AI engineering each week — including the bits that genuinely surprised me. Continue reading on Mediu
Reddit r/LocalLLaMA
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
18h ago
Biggest, baddest model to fill 144GB VRAM + 120GB RAM to the brim, regardless of speed
I'm trying to round out my quiver of daily driver models for my personal harness. Right now I drive qwen3.6 27b for balanced code and gemma4 31b for human inter

Medium · Machine Learning
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
18h ago
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Explained: The Complete Guide Every AI Engineer Should Read
From the limitations of early LLMs to the rise of AI agents — understand why the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is becoming the standard for… Continue reading on

Medium · Programming
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
18h ago
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Explained: The Complete Guide Every AI Engineer Should Read
From the limitations of early LLMs to the rise of AI agents — understand why the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is becoming the standard for… Continue reading on
Dev.to AI
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
18h ago
The 2026 AI Model Release Race: Every Major LLM Launch You Need to Know
Key Takeaways Claude Sonnet 5 landed June 30, scoring 63.2% on SWE-bench Pro at $2/$10 per million tokens — close to Opus 4.8 at 40% of its standard price. It's
Dev.to AI
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
19h ago
Call GPT, Claude, and Gemini from one API key — a 3-step setup
If you want to try GPT, Claude, and Gemini without signing up for three separate platforms and juggling three billing dashboards, here's a 3-step setup using an

Dev.to · RileyKim
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
19h ago
Open-Source LLM APIs Beat Self-Hosting. Here's the Math.
So here's what happened: open-Source LLM APIs Beat Self-Hosting. Here's the Math. Last quarter I sat...
Medium · ChatGPT
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
19h ago
Explaining attention mechanisms without math
Modern Language models like Claude, Google Translate, and other AI assistants can understand and generate responses to questions with… Continue reading on Mediu

Medium · ChatGPT
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
19h ago
The Day I Stopped Treating ChatGPT Like a Search Engine and Started Using It Like a Teammate
Stop using ChatGPT like a search engine—start using it like your smartest teammate. Continue reading on Medium »
Reddit r/LocalLLaMA
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
19h ago
[audio.cpp] VibeVoice 1.5B released — 90-min podcast in 22.95 min, 4.08x real-time, 2.86x faster than Python without quantization. Native C++/ggml
I’m the author of audio.cpp, a C++/ggml runtime for local audio models. I just added VibeVoice 1.5B support and wanted to share the benchmark because long-form

Medium · Machine Learning
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
19h ago
Your LLM Doesn’t Pick Stocks — It Remembers Them
The dirty secret of AI stock picking lives inside the model’s weights. Full write-up, code, and benchmarks on jiripik.com. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · NLP
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
19h ago
Word Representation
This article is a reader companion to the Word Representation chapter of the Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics. It can be read… Continue reading on M

Medium · AI
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
20h ago
When Cosine Similarity Approaching Singularity in Google Search AI Mode
##Ontological Infiltration, Vector Collapse, and the Strategic Dilemma of Unified Knowledge Graphs Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Data Science
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
20h ago
When Cosine Similarity Approaching Singularity in Google Search AI Mode
##Ontological Infiltration, Vector Collapse, and the Strategic Dilemma of Unified Knowledge Graphs Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Deep Learning
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
20h ago
When Cosine Similarity Approaching Singularity in Google Search AI Mode
##Ontological Infiltration, Vector Collapse, and the Strategic Dilemma of Unified Knowledge Graphs Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · LLM
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
20h ago
When Cosine Similarity Approaching Singularity in Google Search AI Mode
##Ontological Infiltration, Vector Collapse, and the Strategic Dilemma of Unified Knowledge Graphs Continue reading on Medium »

Dev.to · Hector Hernandez Cruz
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
20h ago
Building a Production RAG Pipeline with Hybrid Retrieval and LangChain
Most RAG tutorials get you 70% of the way there. This is about the other 30% that actually matters in...

Medium · LLM
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
20h ago
Mamba3 in Three Animations
The three changes that turn Mamba-2 into Mamba-3 — each one watched, not just described. Two of the three animations are driven by real… Continue reading on Tow

Medium · Machine Learning
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
20h ago
Anthropic’s War on Open-Source AI, or Is It Just Afraid?
It trained on the world, then paid $1.5 billion to settle the pirated books. Its terms say you cannot use Claude to build a competitor… Continue reading on Towa

Medium · Programming
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
20h ago
Anthropic’s War on Open-Source AI, or Is It Just Afraid?
It trained on the world, then paid $1.5 billion to settle the pirated books. Its terms say you cannot use Claude to build a competitor… Continue reading on Towa
Simon Willison's Blog
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
20h ago
Quoting Anthropic
We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will
Medium · LLM
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
20h ago
Work across research, engineering, data, evals, and product to make models better at acting in real…
The Research Pillar: Reinforcement Learning, Reasoning, and Environments Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · ChatGPT
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
20h ago
You Use ChatGPT Every Day… But Do You Actually Know How It Works?
From tokens and embeddings to transformers, temperature, and inference, here's the complete picture in simple words with diagrams and code. Continue reading on
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Dev.to · Tuấn Anh
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
21h ago
[AI] Practical QLoRA Fine-tuning: Axolotl & Unsloth | SLM Playbook
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