Aggregating lab tokenizers reveals ~994 tokens stable across Google, DeepSeek, Meta, Anthropic

kalomaze · x · 2026-10-23

kalomaze aggregated tokenizers from Google, DeepSeek, Meta, Anthropic and other labs, then filtered for tokens that always exist as dedicated tokens under BPE-like schemes — including across Anthropic model generations. The result: roughly 994 tokens that are almost always dedicated, such as common subwords like "System", "new", and "def", highlighting surprising commonality in how labs' tokenizers split frequent subwords.

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