This category is about the models rather than the products built on them, which turns out to matter more than it sounds. Understanding why a model behaves a certain way is usually the fastest route to working with it well.
Threads cover architecture differences in accessible terms, context windows and what happens as you fill them, reasoning and chain of thought approaches, multimodal capability across text, image, audio and video, fine tuning versus prompting versus retrieval, and quantisation and its quality cost.
Benchmarks get discussed critically. Scores are useful for narrowing a shortlist and poor at predicting how a model performs on your specific work. Members here compare on their own tasks and report the results, which is slower and far more informative.
Technical depth is welcome and so are beginner questions. See Frontier LLMs & Chat Models for the current top tier and Open-Source & Efficient Models for models you can run yourself.
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