A Beginner’s Guide to the Fundamentals A practical, concept-first guide for technology professionals and curious beginners How Large Language Models Work An LLM can be understood at a useful level without deriving the mathematics. The important idea is that text becomes numerical representations, passes through many transformer layers, and is used to predict what should…

A Beginner’s Guide to the Fundamentals A practical, concept-first guide for technology professionals and curious beginners The one-sentence version Think of Generative AI as a new software capability built around models that can generate useful content from context. The model is important, but a production GenAI system is usually much larger than the model: it…