Search and recsys are all deep transformer architectures now — outsiders have no idea
burny_tech · x · 2026-11-10
Quoting a claim that "Twitter and Google don't run on AI data centers", burnytech asks how people outside the field imagine semantic search and recommender algorithms work — pointing out that these systems are now entirely built on deep neural network transformer architectures. The thread highlights the gap between modern search/recsys stacks and public perception.
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