One chart of the heroic age of language modeling: ELIZA to Claude 5.5
voooooogel · x · 2026-10-19
Made over a night of working with Opus 5.5, this intricate tree-of-life chart maps the entire heroic age of language modeling: from Shannon, Markov and Turing through the Transformer era, tracing branches for OpenAI (GPT-2 to o3 and beyond), Anthropic (Claude 2 to Claude 5.5), Google's Gemini line, Meta's LLaMA family, plus Mistral, Grok, DeepSeek R1, Kimi, GLM and more. Annotated cards mark key papers and moments—RLHF, Scaling Laws, Constitutional AI, DeepSeek's verifiable-reward RL—with several arrows ending in "?" for the uncertain frontier.
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