1 module · 4 narrated lessons · 1 explorable
How Large Language Models Work
Peek inside the machine that predicts your next word, one token at a time.
Topic typed in: “How large language models work”
The Prediction WorkshopType a sentence and a cart carries its tokens through a small transformer you can watch: a tokenizer bench, an embedding floor, an attention loom and a prediction counter, with a temperature dial that changes the real softmax.Open the live explorable (opens in a new tab)
1. Breaking Text into Tokens
2:19 narrated video
2. From Tokens to Meaning Vectors
2:01 narrated video
3. How Attention Lets Words Talk to Each Other
2:08 narrated video
4. Turning Predictions into Generated Text
2:21 narrated video
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