Sam Altman predicts another architecture breakthrough as big as transformers over LSTMs

Sam Altman predicts another architecture breakthrough as big as transformers over LSTMs | I bet there is another new architecture defined that is going to be like as big of a gain as transformers were over LSTMs.

I bet there is another new architecture defined that is going to be like as big of a gain as transformers were over LSTMs.

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