How Language Models Work
AGAI 102 · Module 1
Understand the core mechanics behind modern language models, including tokens, context windows, attention, and the transformer architecture.
Lessons in this module
1
Tokens and Context
Learn how language models break text into tokens, why context windows matter, and how tokenization affects cost, performance, and reliability.
2
Attention and Transformers
Understand how attention allows language models to connect information across a sequence and why transformers became the dominant architecture for LLMs.
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