The Transformer is the neural network architecture behind today's LLMs, introduced in 2017. Its attention mechanism processes all the words of a text in parallel while weighing their relationships, where previous architectures read sequentially. The “T” in GPT is precisely that.
In practice at Gensai
All the models Gensai integrates (Mistral, Claude, GPT, Gemini) are built on variants of this architecture.
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