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Transformers: The Discovery That Sparked the AI Revolution
Startups and entrepreneurship

Transformers: The Discovery That Sparked the AI Revolution

Y Combinator Startup Podcast 23.10.2025 9 min
Kuuntele Spotifyssa

Nearly every modern AI model, from ChatGPT and Claude to Gemini and Grok, is built on the same foundation: the Transformer.In this video, YC's Ankit Gupta traces how AI learned to understand language — from early RNNs and LSTMs to attention mechanisms and the breakthrough 2017 paper Attention Is All You Need — the discovery that unlocked the modern AI…

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