The Language Model Revolution

The transformer architecture unleashed a new era of Large Language Models (LLMs). Beginning with Google's BERT in 2018, followed by OpenAI's GPT series, these models demonstrated increasingly sophisticated language capabilities. The release of GPT-3 in 2020 marked a pivotal moment, showcasing an AI system that could generate remarkably coherent text, code, poetry, and even engage in philosophical discussions. The subsequent arrival of GPT-4 and similar models from companies like Anthropic, Google, and Meta has only accelerated this trend, bringing AI capabilities that were once science fiction into everyday applications.