Exploring Language Models

A Visual Guide to Multimodal Generation

Exploring Image, Audio, and Video Generation in Multimodal LLMs

Oct 29

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June 2026

A Visual Guide to DiffusionGemma

Going beyond autoregression.

Jun 10 • Maarten Grootendorst

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A Visual Guide to Gemma 4 12B

A unified, encoder-free multimodal model!

Jun 3 • Maarten Grootendorst

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April 2026

A Visual Guide to Gemma 4

A great start to a new job ;)

Apr 3 • Maarten Grootendorst

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February 2026

The Story Behind the "RAG Pack"

It all started with a course...

Feb 12 • Maarten Grootendorst

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March 2025

A Visual Guide to LLM Agents

Exploring the main components of Single- and Multi-Agents

Mar 17, 2025 • Maarten Grootendorst

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February 2025

A Visual Guide to Reasoning LLMs

Exploring Test-Time Compute Techniques and DeepSeek-R1

Feb 3, 2025 • Maarten Grootendorst

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October 2024

A Visual Guide to Mixture of Experts (MoE)

Demystifying the role of MoE in Large Language Models

Oct 7, 2024 • Maarten Grootendorst

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July 2024

A Visual Guide to Quantization

Demystifying the Compression of Large Language Models

Jul 22, 2024 • Maarten Grootendorst

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February 2024

A Visual Guide to Mamba and State Space Models

An Alternative to Transformers for Language Modeling

Feb 19, 2024 • Maarten Grootendorst

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December 2023

Book Update #2 - Hands-On Large Language Models

A Christmas Update!

Dec 21, 2023 • Maarten Grootendorst

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BERTopic: What Is So Special About v0.16?

Exploring Zero-Shot Topic Modeling, Model Merging, and LLMs

Dec 12, 2023 • Maarten Grootendorst

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