Why “Transformers” is being discussed
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People are desperately trying to cope themselves into thinking that there are alternatives to scaling up transformers to AGI/actual competition to OpenAI or Anthropic. Jev,…
by boshalfoshal · Sep 22, 2026
I expected electrical transformers, then Transformers with a capital T, but not this. (still, very very cool!)
by stdatomic · Sep 22, 2026
If I had to summarize this in with sentences then here is my attempt. Transformer training can be parallelized easily, making it possible to use brute force to train the neural…
by imtringued · Sep 22, 2026
well i cant speak for anyone else, but I can tell you there are quite a few books on transformers etc and this one does the best job of explaining how the guts (attention heads…
by misiti3780 · Sep 22, 2026
Love this! Not having spent too much time on understanding the architecture I always struggled to see how transformers get away with compressing all context in a flat vector (e.…
by mhl47 · Sep 22, 2026
Transformers now runs llama.cpp quants
by vertigoruntime · Sep 22, 2026 · 2 points
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Transformers is a mecha media franchise produced by American toy company Hasbro and Japanese toy company Takara Tomy. It primarily follows the heroic Autobots and the villainous Decepticons, two alien robot factions at war that can transform into other forms, such as vehicles and animals. The franchise encompasses toys, animation, comic books, video games and films. As of 2011, it generated more than ¥2 trillion in revenue, making it one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time. Read more on Wikipedia