How Do LLMs Work?
This video, titled "How Do LLMs Work?", is sponsored by Micro Center. It includes a link to an article titled "Part 2.5: Do Floats Dream of Real Numbers?" on lttlabs.com, which discusses LLM quantization. The video also promotes various products and services, including lttstore.com, PIA VPN, and Floatplane, and lists sponsors, affiliates, and partners.
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When you talk to AI it can feel like there's a real person talking back to you, but it's actually a computer program known as A Large Language Model. In this video, we break down how these models work at a very high level. Huge thanks to Colin Kealty, Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Red Hat for helping with this video - https://huggingface.co/bartowski
Want to go deeper? Utkarsh J. at LTT Labs wrote a truly amazing series on the topic:
- LLM Quantization Part 1: What Even is an LLM? - https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/06/19/llm-quantization-part-1-what-even-is-an-llm
- Part 2: You're Gonna Need a Bigger VRAM - https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/07/10/llm-quantization-part-2-youre-gonna-need-a-bigger-vram
- Part 2.5: Do Floats Dream of Real Numbers? - https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/07/21/llm-quantization-part-2-5-do-floats-dream-of-real-numbers
- Part 3: Honey, I Shrunk the Numbers! - https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/08/13/llm-quantization-part-3-honey-i-shrunk-the-numbers
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