Exploring Language Models

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Exploring Language ModelsVoicesA Visual Guide to Multimodal Generation Exploring Image, Audio, and Video Generation in Multimodal LLMs

10.29

Exploring Language ModelsVoicesA Visual Guide to DiffusionGemma Going beyond autoregression.

06.10

Exploring Language ModelsVoicesA Visual Guide to Gemma 4 12B An in-depth explainer to Gemma 4 12B; a unified, encoder-free multimodal model!

06.03

Exploring Language ModelsVoicesA Visual Guide to Gemma 4 A great start to a new job ;)

04.03

Exploring Language ModelsVoicesThe Story Behind the "RAG Pack" It all started with a course...

02.12

The name is the button.

An agent writes the code now, and a human thumb hovers over Accept all a hundred times a day. The honest question of this decade is what, exactly, you just accepted. So I read the diff.

Eight years as a backend engineer in Stockholm, back in Tokyo since 2023, and I still ship something small most nights, usually badly. My one rule: the only real review of a model is the thing you built with it. That is why there is no leaderboard on this site.

Around two hundred sources come through — the labs' own posts, the papers, the tools, the runtimes and languages nobody is watching yet, the chip under the demo, and the newsletters people actually forward. What is moving gets counted so the week reads at a glance, and every few days I explain one mechanism in plain words.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one image and the link to whoever wrote it. We never reproduce the post; the images belong to their authors. A post written in Japanese appears in Japanese, exactly as it was published, and the link goes to the original.

— Yuki Halvorsen, Tokyo