Visualizing 1 Million Tokens: A Journey From GPT-3 to 1M+ Context
nutlope · x · 2026-08-06
Developer nutlope built an interactive website to visualize the scale of 1 million tokens—equivalent to roughly 3,000 pages or the first five Harry Potter books—while tracing the evolution of LLM context windows.
The site walks users through key milestones in context expansion:
- Jun 2020 · GPT-3: 2,048 tokens, about 6 pages of text.
- Nov 2022 · ChatGPT: 4,096 tokens, where long conversations forgot their beginnings.
- Mar 2023 · GPT-4 32K: 32,768 tokens, capable of handling a novella.
- May 2023 · Claude 100K: 100,000 tokens, enough to read The Great Gatsby in one pass.
- Feb 2024 · Gemini 1.5 Pro: The first to hold 1 million tokens, a capability now available in open-weight models.
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