The field of artificial intelligence has seen remarkable progress in recent years, particularly in the domain of large language models (LLMs). This article explores the journey from the foundational Transformer architecture to the cutting-edge DeepSeek-R1 model, highlighting key developments and breakthroughs along the way.
The Transformer architecture, introduced in 2017, revolutionized natural language processing. Its attention mechanism allowed for more efficient processing of sequential data, paving the way for larger and more capable language models1.