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

Originally published on my blog. Cross-posted here with a canonical link.






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...