{"id":229782,"date":"2026-01-25T09:06:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T15:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-primer-on-large-language-models-and-transformers-part-i-a-high-flying-birds-eye-view"},"modified":"2026-01-25T09:06:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T15:06:05","slug":"a-primer-on-large-language-models-and-transformers-part-i-a-high-flying-birds-eye-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-primer-on-large-language-models-and-transformers-part-i-a-high-flying-birds-eye-view","title":{"rendered":"A Primer on Large Language Models and Transformers. Part I: A High-Flying Bird\u2019s Eye-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-primer-on-large-language-models-and-transformers-part-i-a-high-flying-birds-eye-view.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Transformer-based LLMs are the most significant technology of the past decade. This is first in a series of posts exploring Transformers at various levels of abstraction, digging deeper with each post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transformer-based LLMs are the most significant technology of the past decade. This is first in a series of posts exploring Transformers at various levels of abstraction, digging deeper with each post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}