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In 2020, OpenAI scaled GPT-2 by over 100×—to 175 billion parameters—and discovered something unexpected: the model could perform tasks it was never trained on, just by reading a few examples in its prompt. 'Language Models are Few-Shot Learners' didn't just set new benchmarks. It changed what we thought language models could do.
What if you could have a model with 671 billion parameters but only pay to run 37 billion? Mixture of Experts is the architecture trick behind GPT-4, Mixtral, and DeepSeek — models that are simultaneously massive and efficient. Three landmark papers explain how.
Two landmark papers revealed that AI model performance follows predictable mathematical laws—and that the industry was training models wrong. The Chinchilla paper showed that a 70B model trained on more data could outperform models 4× its size, reshaping how every major AI lab builds models today.
A deceptively simple insight: if you ask a model to 'think step by step,' it reasons better. Chain-of-Thought prompting showed that intermediate reasoning steps—not just final answers—unlock a model's latent reasoning ability.
The paper behind ChatGPT. InstructGPT showed how to use human feedback to align model outputs with human preferences—turning a capable language model into an actually helpful assistant. This is reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) made real.
The paper that bridged pretraining and ChatGPT. Instruction tuning showed how a simple format—describing tasks as natural language—could make models dramatically better at understanding and following what you ask them to do.
A beginner-friendly explanation of GPT-2 (2019), the paper that showed AI could write coherent, creative text by simply predicting the next word. Part 3 of our AI Papers Explained series.
A beginner-friendly explanation of BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers), the 2018 paper that taught AI to understand language by reading in both directions. Follow-up to our 'Attention Is All You Need' explainer.
A beginner-friendly explanation of the groundbreaking 'Attention Is All You Need' paper that introduced Transformers. Learn what attention mechanisms are, why they matter, and how they power modern AI like ChatGPT.