Jay Alammar
@jayalammar.bsky.social
Writer http://jalammar.github.io. O'Reilly Author http://LLM-book.com. LLM Builder Cohere.com.
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.
The Illustrated GPT-OSS
New post! A visual tour of the architecture, message formatting, and reasoning of the latest GPT.
newsletter.languagemodels.co/p/the-illust...
New post! A visual tour of the architecture, message formatting, and reasoning of the latest GPT.
newsletter.languagemodels.co/p/the-illust...
August 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The Illustrated GPT-OSS
New post! A visual tour of the architecture, message formatting, and reasoning of the latest GPT.
newsletter.languagemodels.co/p/the-illust...
New post! A visual tour of the architecture, message formatting, and reasoning of the latest GPT.
newsletter.languagemodels.co/p/the-illust...
The legendary John Carmack at #upperbound:
- Current AI focus is RL (with Richard Sutton) solving Atari games
- Thinking in line with the Alberta Plan.
- It was a misstep to start working too low-level (e.g., at the cuda level). I kept stepping up the stack chain until now in pytorch
- Current AI focus is RL (with Richard Sutton) solving Atari games
- Thinking in line with the Alberta Plan.
- It was a misstep to start working too low-level (e.g., at the cuda level). I kept stepping up the stack chain until now in pytorch
May 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The legendary John Carmack at #upperbound:
- Current AI focus is RL (with Richard Sutton) solving Atari games
- Thinking in line with the Alberta Plan.
- It was a misstep to start working too low-level (e.g., at the cuda level). I kept stepping up the stack chain until now in pytorch
- Current AI focus is RL (with Richard Sutton) solving Atari games
- Thinking in line with the Alberta Plan.
- It was a misstep to start working too low-level (e.g., at the cuda level). I kept stepping up the stack chain until now in pytorch
The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1
Spent the weekend reading the paper and sorting through the intuitions. Here's a visual guide and the main intuitions to understand the model and the process that created it.
newsletter.languagemodels.co/p/the-illust...
Spent the weekend reading the paper and sorting through the intuitions. Here's a visual guide and the main intuitions to understand the model and the process that created it.
newsletter.languagemodels.co/p/the-illust...
January 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1
Spent the weekend reading the paper and sorting through the intuitions. Here's a visual guide and the main intuitions to understand the model and the process that created it.
newsletter.languagemodels.co/p/the-illust...
Spent the weekend reading the paper and sorting through the intuitions. Here's a visual guide and the main intuitions to understand the model and the process that created it.
newsletter.languagemodels.co/p/the-illust...
Floored that the repo for Hands-On Large Language Models is now at 3.6k Github stars!
And excited that professors are starting to use the book to teach LLM courses. Reach out to us if we can be of assistance!
And if you've liked the book, leave us a review on Amazon or Goodreads!
And excited that professors are starting to use the book to teach LLM courses. Reach out to us if we can be of assistance!
And if you've liked the book, leave us a review on Amazon or Goodreads!
January 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Floored that the repo for Hands-On Large Language Models is now at 3.6k Github stars!
And excited that professors are starting to use the book to teach LLM courses. Reach out to us if we can be of assistance!
And if you've liked the book, leave us a review on Amazon or Goodreads!
And excited that professors are starting to use the book to teach LLM courses. Reach out to us if we can be of assistance!
And if you've liked the book, leave us a review on Amazon or Goodreads!
Good morning #NeurIPS2024! Stop by the @cohere.com booth at 3PM today (Thursday) for a signed copy of Hands-On Large Language Models - it will introduce you to LLMs, their applications, as well as Cohere's Embed, Rerank, and Command-R models.
Come early as quantities are limited!
Come early as quantities are limited!
December 12, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Good morning #NeurIPS2024! Stop by the @cohere.com booth at 3PM today (Thursday) for a signed copy of Hands-On Large Language Models - it will introduce you to LLMs, their applications, as well as Cohere's Embed, Rerank, and Command-R models.
Come early as quantities are limited!
Come early as quantities are limited!
I'll be in the Cohere #NeurIPS2024 booth most of this afternoon. Come say hi, ask questions, and yes, we're hiring!
Tomorrow I'll be signing copies of my book at 3PM! Limited copies available!
Tomorrow I'll be signing copies of my book at 3PM! Limited copies available!
December 11, 2024 at 8:26 PM
I'll be in the Cohere #NeurIPS2024 booth most of this afternoon. Come say hi, ask questions, and yes, we're hiring!
Tomorrow I'll be signing copies of my book at 3PM! Limited copies available!
Tomorrow I'll be signing copies of my book at 3PM! Limited copies available!
Hi NeurIPS!
Explore ~4,500 NeurIPS papers in this interactive visualization:
jalammar.github.io/assets/neuri...
(Click on a point to see the paper on the website)
Uses @cohere.com models and @lelandmcinnes.bsky.social's datamapplot/umap to help make sense of the overwhelming scale of NeurIPS.
Explore ~4,500 NeurIPS papers in this interactive visualization:
jalammar.github.io/assets/neuri...
(Click on a point to see the paper on the website)
Uses @cohere.com models and @lelandmcinnes.bsky.social's datamapplot/umap to help make sense of the overwhelming scale of NeurIPS.
December 10, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Hi NeurIPS!
Explore ~4,500 NeurIPS papers in this interactive visualization:
jalammar.github.io/assets/neuri...
(Click on a point to see the paper on the website)
Uses @cohere.com models and @lelandmcinnes.bsky.social's datamapplot/umap to help make sense of the overwhelming scale of NeurIPS.
Explore ~4,500 NeurIPS papers in this interactive visualization:
jalammar.github.io/assets/neuri...
(Click on a point to see the paper on the website)
Uses @cohere.com models and @lelandmcinnes.bsky.social's datamapplot/umap to help make sense of the overwhelming scale of NeurIPS.
I loved Daniel Dennett's From Bacteria to Bach and Back and its analogies between biological minds and computing paradigms.
Chapter 4, especially, which speaks about how an intelligent being can have "competence without comprehension".
Chapter 4, especially, which speaks about how an intelligent being can have "competence without comprehension".
November 20, 2024 at 4:52 AM
I loved Daniel Dennett's From Bacteria to Bach and Back and its analogies between biological minds and computing paradigms.
Chapter 4, especially, which speaks about how an intelligent being can have "competence without comprehension".
Chapter 4, especially, which speaks about how an intelligent being can have "competence without comprehension".