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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 a hundred and forty 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.

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Byte Language Models: Scaling, Emergent Abstractions, and Information Allocation

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The paper challenges the assumption that language models need explicit tokenizers to be efficient demonstrating that standard flat Transformers can process raw byte sequences and actually outperform…

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