How Do LLMs Think?

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When you talk to AI it can feel like there's a real person talking back to you, but it's actually a computer program known as A Large Language Model. In this video, we break down how these models work at a very high level.
Huge thanks to Colin Kealty, Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Red Hat for helping with this video - https://huggingface.co/bartowski

Want to go deeper? Utkarsh J. at LTT Labs wrote a truly amazing series on the topic:

- LLM Quantization Part 1: What Even is an LLM? - https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/06/19/llm-quantization-part-1-what-even-is-an-llm

- Part 2: You're Gonna Need a Bigger VRAM - https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/07/10/llm-quantization-part-2-youre-gonna-need-a-bigger-vram

- Part 2.5: Do Floats Dream of Real Numbers? - https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/07/21/llm-quantization-part-2-5-do-floats-dream-of-real-numbers

- Part 3: Honey, I Shrunk the Numbers! - https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/08/13/llm-quantization-part-3-honey-i-shrunk-the-numbers

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