i made an llm from first principles with Jev 29 yes/no

Built an autoregressive text generator from Jev yes/no questions, picking the highest-probability next character each step.

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i made an llm from first principles with Jev

29 yes/no questions per character: should the next key be a–z, space, comma, or period?

highest probability gets append to it, then fed the updated text back in & repeat

an autoregressive loop made out of a classifier

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After co-inventing ChatGPT, I kept asking myself: why have superhuman chat models not led to AGI? I’ve spent the last 2 years in stealth building a new way to train models (RLCD), and a new type of frontier AI model that we are releasing today: Jev • 20-200x faster • 40-400x

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