Maarten Grootendorst
@maartengr.bsky.social
🧑💻 Data Scientist | Psychologist
📖 Author of "Hands-On LLMs" (http://LLM-book.com)
🧙♂️ Open Sourcerer (BERTopic, PolyFuzz, KeyBERT; github.com/MaartenGr)
💡 Demystifying LLMs (newsletter.maartengrootendorst.com)
📖 Author of "Hands-On LLMs" (http://LLM-book.com)
🧙♂️ Open Sourcerer (BERTopic, PolyFuzz, KeyBERT; github.com/MaartenGr)
💡 Demystifying LLMs (newsletter.maartengrootendorst.com)
Drafts of the first two chapters of "An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents" are now available in Early Release on the O'Reilly platform!
October 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Drafts of the first two chapters of "An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents" are now available in Early Release on the O'Reilly platform!
Reposted by Maarten Grootendorst
The Illustrated Guide to AI Agents
New book announcement!
Thrilled that together with @maartengr.bsky.social , we're writing a new book titled “An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents” and published by @oreilly.bsky.social.
New book announcement!
Thrilled that together with @maartengr.bsky.social , we're writing a new book titled “An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents” and published by @oreilly.bsky.social.
October 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The Illustrated Guide to AI Agents
New book announcement!
Thrilled that together with @maartengr.bsky.social , we're writing a new book titled “An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents” and published by @oreilly.bsky.social.
New book announcement!
Thrilled that together with @maartengr.bsky.social , we're writing a new book titled “An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents” and published by @oreilly.bsky.social.
Excited to share that @jayalammar.bsky.social and I are writing the book “An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents” with @oreilly.bsky.social 🥳
Our new book will contain chapters on the fundamentals of agents (memory, tools, and planning), alongside more advanced concepts like RL and reasoning LLMs.
Our new book will contain chapters on the fundamentals of agents (memory, tools, and planning), alongside more advanced concepts like RL and reasoning LLMs.
October 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Excited to share that @jayalammar.bsky.social and I are writing the book “An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents” with @oreilly.bsky.social 🥳
Our new book will contain chapters on the fundamentals of agents (memory, tools, and planning), alongside more advanced concepts like RL and reasoning LLMs.
Our new book will contain chapters on the fundamentals of agents (memory, tools, and planning), alongside more advanced concepts like RL and reasoning LLMs.
We've made so much extra (free!) content it could be its own book 😅
I counted more than 300 visuals across our illustrated and visual guides!
I counted more than 300 visuals across our illustrated and visual guides!
April 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
We've made so much extra (free!) content it could be its own book 😅
I counted more than 300 visuals across our illustrated and visual guides!
I counted more than 300 visuals across our illustrated and visual guides!
Happy to introduce my video on this alternative LLM architecture, Mamba and State Space Models!
I wanted to do it for a while now and finally found the time to work on animating my visual guide. Expect to gain an intuitive understanding of this alternative LLM architecture.
Link below 👇
I wanted to do it for a while now and finally found the time to work on animating my visual guide. Expect to gain an intuitive understanding of this alternative LLM architecture.
Link below 👇
March 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Happy to introduce my video on this alternative LLM architecture, Mamba and State Space Models!
I wanted to do it for a while now and finally found the time to work on animating my visual guide. Expect to gain an intuitive understanding of this alternative LLM architecture.
Link below 👇
I wanted to do it for a while now and finally found the time to work on animating my visual guide. Expect to gain an intuitive understanding of this alternative LLM architecture.
Link below 👇
Announcing BERTopic v0.17 🥳
This is a feature-packed update that includes the amazing Model2Vec, more interactive DataMapPlot functionalities, a method for lightweight installation, and much more!
This is a feature-packed update that includes the amazing Model2Vec, more interactive DataMapPlot functionalities, a method for lightweight installation, and much more!
March 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Announcing BERTopic v0.17 🥳
This is a feature-packed update that includes the amazing Model2Vec, more interactive DataMapPlot functionalities, a method for lightweight installation, and much more!
This is a feature-packed update that includes the amazing Model2Vec, more interactive DataMapPlot functionalities, a method for lightweight installation, and much more!
Introducing "A Visual Guide to LLM Agents" 🤖
With over 60 (!) custom visuals, explore how Agents work, how they are created, their reasoning behavior, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Multi-Agent frameworks, and much more!
Link below 👇
With over 60 (!) custom visuals, explore how Agents work, how they are created, their reasoning behavior, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Multi-Agent frameworks, and much more!
Link below 👇
March 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Introducing "A Visual Guide to LLM Agents" 🤖
With over 60 (!) custom visuals, explore how Agents work, how they are created, their reasoning behavior, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Multi-Agent frameworks, and much more!
Link below 👇
With over 60 (!) custom visuals, explore how Agents work, how they are created, their reasoning behavior, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Multi-Agent frameworks, and much more!
Link below 👇
I discuss Model Context Protocol (MCP) in an upcoming article and figured I would share a small video illustrating a simplified flow!
March 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I discuss Model Context Protocol (MCP) in an upcoming article and figured I would share a small video illustrating a simplified flow!
Blazingly fast keyword generation with KeyBERT v0.9 and Model2Vec 🔥
I have been a big fan of the amazing embedding models by The Minish Lab, so I had to integrate them with KeyBERT.
A release for the GPU-poor 😉
I have been a big fan of the amazing embedding models by The Minish Lab, so I had to integrate them with KeyBERT.
A release for the GPU-poor 😉
February 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Blazingly fast keyword generation with KeyBERT v0.9 and Model2Vec 🔥
I have been a big fan of the amazing embedding models by The Minish Lab, so I had to integrate them with KeyBERT.
A release for the GPU-poor 😉
I have been a big fan of the amazing embedding models by The Minish Lab, so I had to integrate them with KeyBERT.
A release for the GPU-poor 😉
Did you know we continue to develop new content for the "Hands-On Large Language Models" book?
There's now even a free course available with
@deeplearningai.bsky.social!
There's now even a free course available with
@deeplearningai.bsky.social!
February 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Did you know we continue to develop new content for the "Hands-On Large Language Models" book?
There's now even a free course available with
@deeplearningai.bsky.social!
There's now even a free course available with
@deeplearningai.bsky.social!
A Visual Guide to Reasoning LLMs 💭
With over 40 custom visuals, explore DeepSeek-R1, the train-time compute paradigm shift, test-time compute techniques, verifiers, STaR, and much more!
Link below
With over 40 custom visuals, explore DeepSeek-R1, the train-time compute paradigm shift, test-time compute techniques, verifiers, STaR, and much more!
Link below
February 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A Visual Guide to Reasoning LLMs 💭
With over 40 custom visuals, explore DeepSeek-R1, the train-time compute paradigm shift, test-time compute techniques, verifiers, STaR, and much more!
Link below
With over 40 custom visuals, explore DeepSeek-R1, the train-time compute paradigm shift, test-time compute techniques, verifiers, STaR, and much more!
Link below
I'm incredibly grateful that "Exploring Language Models" has reached over 10k subscribers🔥
A big thank you to all readers who have enjoyed my visual guides to Mixture of Experts (MoE), Quantization, State Space Models (SSMs) and Mamba 🤗
A big thank you to all readers who have enjoyed my visual guides to Mixture of Experts (MoE), Quantization, State Space Models (SSMs) and Mamba 🤗
January 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I'm incredibly grateful that "Exploring Language Models" has reached over 10k subscribers🔥
A big thank you to all readers who have enjoyed my visual guides to Mixture of Experts (MoE), Quantization, State Space Models (SSMs) and Mamba 🤗
A big thank you to all readers who have enjoyed my visual guides to Mixture of Experts (MoE), Quantization, State Space Models (SSMs) and Mamba 🤗
I started working on animating "A Visual Guide to Mamba" and it's been a blast.
Perhaps I should just add animations as a default to upcoming visual guides 😉
Perhaps I should just add animations as a default to upcoming visual guides 😉
December 18, 2024 at 3:57 PM
I started working on animating "A Visual Guide to Mamba" and it's been a blast.
Perhaps I should just add animations as a default to upcoming visual guides 😉
Perhaps I should just add animations as a default to upcoming visual guides 😉
🍿 Introducing the animated "Visual Guide to Mixture of Experts (MoE)"!
This was a blast to make and contains more in-depth descriptions than the original already had! Expect even more intuition as we break down visuals and discover the nuances behind MoE.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOPD...
This was a blast to make and contains more in-depth descriptions than the original already had! Expect even more intuition as we break down visuals and discover the nuances behind MoE.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOPD...
A Visual Guide to Mixture of Experts (MoE) in LLMs
YouTube video by Maarten Grootendorst
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2024 at 4:20 PM
🍿 Introducing the animated "Visual Guide to Mixture of Experts (MoE)"!
This was a blast to make and contains more in-depth descriptions than the original already had! Expect even more intuition as we break down visuals and discover the nuances behind MoE.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOPD...
This was a blast to make and contains more in-depth descriptions than the original already had! Expect even more intuition as we break down visuals and discover the nuances behind MoE.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOPD...
Next up, "A Visual Guide to Quantization"!
Over 60 custom visuals explaining quantization of LLMs.
Explore (a)symmetric quantization, dynamic/static quantization, post-training techniques (e.g., GPTQ and GGUF), quantization-aware training (e.g., BitNet 1.58b), and more!
#llms #ai
Over 60 custom visuals explaining quantization of LLMs.
Explore (a)symmetric quantization, dynamic/static quantization, post-training techniques (e.g., GPTQ and GGUF), quantization-aware training (e.g., BitNet 1.58b), and more!
#llms #ai
November 12, 2024 at 3:40 PM
👋 Hi, I'm Maarten. I enjoy demystifying LLMs in the form of visual guides.
In the upcoming weeks, I'll be (re-)sharing some of my work if you are not already familiar with it.
Today, with more than 50 illustrations:
"A Visual Guide to Mamba"
In the upcoming weeks, I'll be (re-)sharing some of my work if you are not already familiar with it.
Today, with more than 50 illustrations:
"A Visual Guide to Mamba"
A Visual Guide to Mamba and State Space Models
An Alternative to Transformers for Language Modeling
newsletter.maartengrootendorst.com
November 1, 2024 at 3:29 PM
👋 Hi, I'm Maarten. I enjoy demystifying LLMs in the form of visual guides.
In the upcoming weeks, I'll be (re-)sharing some of my work if you are not already familiar with it.
Today, with more than 50 illustrations:
"A Visual Guide to Mamba"
In the upcoming weeks, I'll be (re-)sharing some of my work if you are not already familiar with it.
Today, with more than 50 illustrations:
"A Visual Guide to Mamba"