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I'd Rather Be Writing Podcast FeedRecording of AI book club session of 'Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation', by Jay Alammar and Maarten GrootendorstThis is a recording of our AI book club discussion of Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation by Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst, held Oct 19, 2025. The book differs from other books in the series in that it's a more technical exploration of how LLMs work, without any ethics discussions. It's less narrative and more engineering-oriented. Our discussion focuses on understanding of conceptual details and whether, to use an analogy, understanding the plane's engine helps pilots fly the airplane better.
2025-10-2659 minI'd Rather Be Writing PodcastRecording of AI book club session of 'Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation', by Jay Alammar and Maarten GrootendorstThis is a recording of our AI book club discussion of Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation by Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst, held Oct 19, 2025. The book differs from other books in the series in that it's a more technical exploration of how LLMs work, without any ethics discussions. It's less narrative and more engineering-oriented. Our discussion focuses on understanding of conceptual details and whether, to use an analogy, understanding the plane's engine helps pilots fly the airplane better.
2025-10-2659 min
Generative AI in the Real WorldJay Alammar on Building AI for the EnterpriseJay Alammar, director and Engineering Fellow at Cohere, joins Ben Lorica to talk about building AI applications for the enterprise, using RAG effectively, and the evolution of RAG into agents. Listen in to find out what kinds of metadata you need when you’re onboarding a new model or agent; discover how an emphasis on evaluation helps an organization improve its processes; and learn how to take advantage of the latest code-generation tools.Timestamps0:00: Introduction to Jay Alammar, director at Cohere. He’s also the author of Hands-On Large Language Models.0:30: What has change...
2025-09-1942 min
Explore Into Audiobooks — Short Inspiring Combo To Start.Hands-On Large Language Models in audiobook form by Jay Alammar, Maarten GrootendorstPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/343168 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Hands-On Large Language Models
Author: Jay Alammar, Maarten Grootendorst
Narrator: Derek Shoales
Format: mp3
Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
Release date: 09-16-25
Ratings: Not rated yet
Genres: Computer Science
Publisher's Summary:
AI has acquired startling new language capabilities in just the past few years. Driven by rapid advances in deep learning, language AI systems are able to write and understand text better than ever before. This trend is enabling new features, products, and entire industries. With this book, listeners...
2025-09-161h 55
The UpstreamLifeWar to deploy LLMs in enterprises is wide open, adoption of GPTs require experts - Arun of Articul8In this episode we talk to Arun, the founder of Articul8, an LLM company that focuses on building models specifically trained for enterprise scale and security. Learn a lot more about the AI wars in this episode, which is similar to the cloud wars that began more than a decade ago between AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. This time around startups like Articul8 have the ability to scale in a niche market. Let us find out Arun's strategy to scale the company. 00:00 - Introduction.04:26 - Training the AI models.11:40 - AI stack and how w...
2025-09-1358 min
The Data Exchange with Ben LoricaBeyond the Chatbot: What Actually Works in Enterprise AIJay Alammar is Director and Engineering Fellow at Cohere and co-author of the O’Reilly book “Hands-on Large Language Models.” Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter 📩 https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple · Spotify · Overcast · Pocket Casts · AntennaPod · Podcast Addict · Amazon · RSS.Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be found on...
2025-09-1138 min
Generative AI in the Real WorldGenerative AI in the Real World: Jay Alammar on Building AI for the EnterpriseJay Alammar, director and Engineering Fellow at Cohere, joins Ben Lorica to talk about building AI applications for the enterprise, using RAG effectively, and the evolution of RAG into agents. Listen in to find out what kinds of metadata you need when you’re onboarding a new model or agent; discover how an emphasis on evaluation […]
2025-08-0730 min
Weaviate PodcastAgentic Topic Modeling with Maarten Grootendorst - Weaviate Podcast #126!Maarten Grootendorst is a psychologist turned AI engineer who has created BERTopic and authored "Hands-On Large Language Models" with Jay Alammar. The rise of LLMs and Agents are transforming many areas of software! This podcast dives deep into their impact on Topic Modeling! Maarten designed BERTopic from the start with modularity in mind -- letting you ablate embedding models, dimensionality reduction, clustering algorithms, and more. This early insight to prioritize modularity makes BERTopic incredibly well structured to become more "Agentic". An "Agentic" Topic Modeling algorithm can use LLMs to generate topics or topic descriptions, as well as contrast them...
2025-07-091h 05
Otostopçunun Yapay Zeka RehberiGPT Nasıl Çalışır? Büyük Dil Modelleri, Token, Embedding, Dikkat ve Daha FazlasıBu bölümde, GPT’nin nasıl devasa metin veri setleri üzerinde önceden eğitildiğini, nasıl Transformer mimarisi üzerine kurulduğunu ve metinleri nasıl bir kelimenin sonrasında hangisinin geleceğini tahmin ederek oluşturduğunu keşfediyoruz. Bunu yaparken, eski dostumuz Turing'e selam veriyor, Doğal Dil İşleme'nin (NLP) tarihine göz atıyor, ELIZA'ya hal hatır soruyoruz.Beatles'ın "All you need is love" haykırışını kulaklarımızda çınlatırken, biz de dikkat mekanizmalarına, tokenizasyona, embedding yöntemlerine göz atıyoruz. RNN’lerden LSTM’lere algoritmaların nasıl evrildiğine kısaca bakıyoruz. GPT’ni...
2025-04-2731 min
AI Innovations UnleashedThe Human Guide to Artificial Intelligence - WTF is AI - Ep 1Artificial Intelligence isn’t just for data scientists. In Episode 1 of WTF is AI?, we make AI human—with dogs, toddlers, Netflix, and pizza analogies that actually make sense. 🎧 A must-listen for professionals navigating the AI revolution.===========Reference List & Further ReadingGeneral AI Concepts:Russell & Norvig. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern ApproachStanford’s “AI Index Report” (https://aiindex.stanford.edu)Google’s “AI for Anyone” Guide: https://ai.google/education/On Transformer Models:“Attention Is All You Need” (Vaswani et al., 2017)OpenAI’s GPT-3 and GPT-4 papersIllustrated Transformer Guide by Jay Alammar: https://j...
2025-04-0831 min
The Hard Part with Evan McCannThe Friday Show - Connor Turland, Alexander Stratmoen, Owen Brakes, Rahul Gudise, Jianxiang (Jack) Xu, Adam Cohen, and Jay AlammarThe first episode of The Friday Show!00:00 - Intro to The Friday Show Format01:57 - X Content Rundown08:38 - Connor Turland from Ceedar18:57 - Alexander Stratmoen on Socratica Symposium27:55 - Owen Brakes from Steinmetz37:03 - Rahul Gudise from Gale48:00 - Jack Xu from Proception55:14 - Adam Cohen from Weave57:00 - Jay Alammar from Cohere on Command A
2025-03-211h 06
Data Neighbor PodcastEp18: Open-Source LLMs vs. ChatGPT: Which One Should You Use?AI is evolving faster than ever—and open-source AI models are catching up to proprietary models at an incredible pace. In this episode of the Data Neighbor Podcast, we sit down with Maarten Grootendorst, co-author of Hands-On Large Language Models with Jay Alammar, DeepLearning.AI instructor, and creator of BERTopic and KeyBERT, to break down the real differences between open-source and closed-source AI models.We’ll discuss how LLMs (Large Language Models) evolved from bag-of-words and Word2Vec to modern transformer-based models like BERT, GPT-4, DeepSeek, LLaMA 2, and Mixtral. More importantly, we explore when open-source AI models might actually be b...
2025-03-161h 00
IA Sob Controle - Inteligência Artificial117: Impacto do DeepSeek, OpenAI o3-mini grátis, IA no SiSUSexta-feira é dia de repercutir as principais notícias da semana, no mundo da IA. Vem ver quem participou desse papo:
Marcus Mendes, host sob controle
Fabrício Carraro, co-host sob controle, Program Manager da Alura, autor de IA e host do podcast Dev Sem Fronteiras
🔗 Links:
Fabrício Carraro: Como o Deepseek-R1 foi treinado
Jay Alammar: The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1
Nvidia perdeu 600B em valor de mercado na segunda-feira
EUA investigam se a DeepSeek usou chips indevidos
Meta monta quatro operações de guerra para analisar o DeepSeek
Itália bane o DeepSeek
Perplexity adiciona o R1 às buscas do pl...
2025-01-311h 03
Future of Data and AIJay Alammar on RAG, AI Education, and Industry Transformation - Future of AI🎙️In this episode, Raja Iqbal welcomes Jay Alammar, a renowned educator, researcher, and visual storyteller in machine learning. Jay shares his fascinating journey into simplifying complex AI concepts through visual storytelling and his passion for making AI education accessible to everyone.Raja and Jay discuss the power of visual learning, the role of intuition in understanding AI, and the challenges and opportunities in enterprise AI adoption. Jay also explores how AI is reshaping industries, the importance of tools like Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and his experiences at Cohere, where he helps organizations harness the power...
2025-01-201h 23
GenAI Level UPAttention Is All You Need - Level 6The Transformer: Revolutionizing Sequence Transduction with Self-Attention
This episode explores the groundbreaking Transformer, a novel neural network architecture that has transformed the field of sequence transduction. The Transformer dispenses with recurrence and convolutions entirely, relying solely on attention mechanisms to capture global dependencies between input and output sequences.
This results in superior performance on tasks like machine translation and significantly faster training times.
We'll break down the key components of the Transformer, including multi-head self-attention, positional encoding, and encoder-decoder stacks, explaining how they work...
2024-11-2715 min
Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)Jay Alammar on LLMs, RAG, and AI EngineeringJay Alammar, renowned AI educator and researcher at Cohere, discusses the latest developments in large language models (LLMs) and their applications in industry. Jay shares his expertise on retrieval augmented generation (RAG), semantic search, and the future of AI architectures.
MLST is sponsored by Brave:
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2024-08-1157 min
The Sandra Kublik PodcastLearning RAG, Overcoming Imposter Syndrome + Building Your AI Career as Non-Techie With Naomi WhiteIn today's episode, I chat about retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with Naomi White, Engineering Program Manager at Cohere. Naomi shares her unique journey from starting as an Executive Assistant at DeepMind to becoming a key player in Cohere's cutting-edge RAG development team. In this episode, we cover: - Naomi's inspiring journey from DeepMind to Cohere and building a career in AI as a non-technical person; - Strategies for navigating the imposter syndrome; - Beginner-friendly tips for learning LLM concepts and staying up to date with AI advancements; - A behind-the-scenes look at developing LLM...
2024-05-191h 13
Learning from Machine LearningLewis Tunstall: Hugging Face, SetFit and Reinforcement Learning | Learning from Machine Learning #6This episode features Lewis Tunstall, machine learning engineer at Hugging Face and author of the best selling book Natural Language Processing with Transformers. He currently focuses on one of the hottest topic in NLP right now reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). Lewis holds a PhD in quantum physics and his research has taken him around the world and into some of the most impactful projects including the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator. Lewis shares his unique story from Quantum Physicist to Data Scientist to Machine Learning Engineer. Resources to learn...
2023-10-031h 18
What's AI Podcast by Louis-François BouchardBuilding LLM Apps & the Challenges that come with it. The What's AI Podcast Episode 16: Jay AlammarMy interview with Jay Alammar, widely known inthe AI and NLP field mainly through his great blog on transformers and attention.
►Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/TO0IV9e2MMQ
►LLM University: https://docs.cohere.com/docs/llmu
►Jay's blog: http://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/
►Twitter: https://twitter.com/JayAlammar, https://twitter.com/Whats_AI
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2023-06-271h 12
Getting Simple#71: Alex O'Connor — Transformers, Generative AI, and the Deep Learning RevolutionAlex O’Connor—researcher and ML manager—on the latest trends of generative AI. Language and image models, prompt engineering, the latent space, fine-tuning, tokenization, textual inversion, adversarial attacks, and more.
Alex O’Connor got his PhD in Computer Science from Trinity College, Dublin. He was a postdoctoral researcher and funded investigator for the ADAPT Centre for digital content, at both TCD and later DCU. In 2017, he joined Pivotus, a Fintech startup, as Director of Research. Alex has been Sr Manager for Data Science & Machine Learning at Autodesk for the past few years, leading a team t...
2023-04-261h 45
{ между скобок }Юля Яковлева, Константин Шибков: ChatGPT для разработчиков#chatgpt #openai #softwareengineer #developers Юля сделала невероятно интересную презентацию, которая показывает как работает ChatGPT под капотом, как проходит обучение этой нейронной сети и какое будущее у проекта с техничекой стороны. После рассмотрели примеры использования ChatGPT - как генерировать ASCII схемы, разбор и изучение sql скриптов. Так же Костя подробно поделился как он использует ChatGPT для решения задач LeetCode, создание образовательного контента. В конце пришли к выводу, что ChatGPT не сможет заменить разработчиков, тк по уровню технических навыков находится на уровне стажера. Ламповый чат https://t.me/backend_megdu_skobkahКанал с анонсами https://t.me/megdu_skobokYouTube https://youtu.be/g2u21UsAS84Boosty https://boosty.to/megdu_skobokПолезные ссылки 📖 Github Юли https://github.com/robolamp📖 Мега крутая презентация от Юли https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BlXR51CmNxxUnDDX87jF2D4o74siGI-ZbEVXj77HY1Q/📖 Блог Jay Alammar от ML https://jalammar.github.io📖 Алгоритмический клуб https://t.me/JavaKeyFrames📖 Конспект от Кости с детальным разбором кейсом использования ChatGPT https://sendel.notion.site/Chat-GPT-b4d4722ace864875a0884cb30f4e6736📖 ChatGPT for Developers https://docs.gpt4devs.com/📖 Приколы с ChatGPT: обмануть или быть обманутым https://habr.com/ru/post/709636/📖 650+ Best Prompts For ChatGPT https://www.writingbeginner.com/best-prompts-for-chatgpt/📖 ChatGPT Prompts for Developer Use Cases https://www.tooltester.com/en/blog/best-chatgpt-prompts/#ChatGPT_Prompts_for_Developer_Use_Cases0:00 Приветствие 3:33 Что такое chatGPT и как оно работает 31:50 Конвертация protobuf в markdown 33:46 ChatGPT как...
2023-04-111h 31
Misreading Chat#111: Formal Algorithms for Transformers
勤務先への脅威に怯える森田が Transformer を復習しました。ご意見ご感想などはおたより投書箱や Reddit にお寄せください。iTunes のレビューや星も歓迎です。
今回は録音に際し Adobe Podcast (beta) のバグを引き当ててしまい、向井と森田の音声トラックがずれてしまいました。ごめんなさい。次回からは non-beta の手堅いツールで録音しようと思います・・・。
[2207.09238] Formal Algorithms for Transformers
#15 – Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate
#38 – Subword Regularization: Improving Neural Network Translation Models with Multiple Subword Candidates
#51 – Attention Is All You Need
#53 – BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding
Jay Alammar – YouTube
GitHub – openai/tiktoken: tiktoken is a fast BPE tokeniser for use with OpenAI’s models.
GitHub – karpathy/nanoGPT: The simplest, fastest repository for training/finetuning medium-sized GPTs.
Let’s build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out. – YouTube
2023-04-0438 min
Changelog Master FeedApplied NLP solutions & AI education (Practical AI #212)We’re super excited to welcome Jay Alammar to the show. Jay is a well-known AI educator, applied NLP practitioner at co:here, and author of the popular blog, “The Illustrated Transformer.” In this episode, he shares his ideas on creating applied NLP solutions, working with large language models, and creating educational resources for state-of-the-art AI.
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2023-02-2238 min
Practical AIApplied NLP solutions & AI educationWe’re super excited to welcome Jay Alammar to the show. Jay is a well-known AI educator, applied NLP practitioner at co:here, and author of the popular blog, “The Illustrated Transformer.” In this episode, he shares his ideas on creating applied NLP solutions, working with large language models, and creating educational resources for state-of-the-art AI.Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content...
2023-02-2238 min
Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)#80 AIDAN GOMEZ [CEO Cohere] - Language as SoftwareWe had a conversation with Aidan Gomez, the CEO of language-based AI platform Cohere. Cohere is a startup which uses artificial intelligence to help users build the next generation of language-based applications. It's headquartered in Toronto. The company has raised $175 million in funding so far.
Language may well become a key new substrate for software building, both in its representation and how we build the software. It may democratise software building so that more people can build software, and we can build new types of software. Aidan and I discuss this in detail in this episode of...
2022-11-1551 min
Tech Brew Ride HomeFri. 10/07 – What Is It With These Dang Bridges?There’s another huge crypto hack and I’ll give you two guesses as to what folks think the culprit is. The Twitter/Elon trial is officially paused. Meta can’t get its own developers to use their metaverse products. Maybe my dream of Death Star style anklebots is over. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.Sponsors:Wealthfront.com/techmemeLinks:Binance-linked blockchain hit by $570 million crypto hack (Reuters)The Elon Musk vs. Twitter trial is on hold until October 28th (The Verge)Meta’s flagship metaverse app is too buggy and...
2022-10-0717 min
The Real Python PodcastMoving NLP Forward With Transformer Models and AttentionWhat’s the big breakthrough for Natural Language Processing (NLP) that has dramatically advanced machine learning into deep learning? What makes these transformer models unique, and what defines “attention?” This week on the show, Jodie Burchell, developer advocate for data science at JetBrains, continues our talk about how machine learning (ML) models understand and generate text.
This episode is a continuation of the conversation in episode #119. Jodie builds on the concepts of bag-of-words, word2vec, and simple embedding models. We talk about the breakthrough mechanism called “attention,” which allows for parallelization in building models.
We also discu...
2022-08-1250 min
Hacia Afuera con Omar EspejelEp 14 - Haritz Puerto (UKP Lab) - Haciendo que la IA resuelva preguntasHaritz habla personalmente y no representando a ninguna empresa o institución de ninguna manera.
Toda la información aquí descrita es mi interpretación y no necesariamente lo que Haritz quiso decir.
Haritz es investigador ciéntifico en el Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab en la TU Darmstadt. Fundado en 2009, el UKP es uno de los centros más importantes de investigación en procesamiento del lenguaje natural del mundo. El trabajo de Haritz se ha enfocado en Question Answering, es decir, algoritmos que sirven para contestar preguntas, generar preguntas y graph neural networks. Hizo su...
2022-02-1956 min
Post Mortem#8 When the facts change, I change my model"When the Facts Change, I Change My Mind. What Do You Do, Sir?" disait JM Keynes.
L’économiste soulignait alors l’importance de réajuster ses a priori et sa représentation du monde lorsqu'on on est confronté à de nouveaux éléments.
C’est la même chose lorsqu’on entraîne un modèle de machine learning et qu’on le déploie.
Les données que l’on va rencontrer en production suivent-elles une distribution similaire aux données sur lesquelles on a entraîné le modèle? Si non, comment peut-on ajuster le tir?
2021-02-0523 minMisreading Chat#53 – BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language UnderstandingNN の自然言語処理で transfer learning を実現した BERT について向井が話します。感想などはハッシュタグ #misreading か hello@misreading.chat にお寄せください。
https://misreading.chat/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ep53.mp3
[1810.04805] BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding
Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-Training
GitHub – openai/gpt-2: Code for the paper “Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners”
[1901.11504] Multi-Task Deep Neural Networks for Natural Language Understanding
Microsoft’s New MT-DNN Outperforms Google BERT – SyncedReview – Medium
BERT with SentencePiece を日本語 Wikipedia で学習してモデルを公開しました – 原理的には可能 – データ分析界隈の人のブログ、もとい雑記帳
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2019-03-2133 minMisreading Chat#51 – Attention Is All You Need昨年から成果が注目されている自然言語処理向けの新しいニューラルネットワーク Transformer を向井が紹介します。感想などはハッシュタグ #misreading か hello@misreading.chat にお寄せください。
https://misreading.chat/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/ep51.mp3
[1706.03762] Attention Is All You Need
The Illustrated Transformer – Jay Alammar – Visualizing machine learning one concept at a time
The Annotated Transformer
Episode 15 – Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate – Misreading Chat
2019-03-0122 minPractical AIOpenAI's new "dangerous" GPT-2 language modelThis week we discuss GPT-2, a new transformer-based language model from OpenAI that has everyone talking. It’s capable of generating incredibly realistic text, and the AI community has lots of concerns about potential malicious applications. We help you understand GPT-2 and we discuss ethical concerns, responsible release of AI research, and resources that we have found useful in learning about language models.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Depl...
2019-02-2540 min