Simon Willison 12/19/2025

Sam Rose explains how LLMs work with a visual essay

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Sam Rose creates a clear, interactive visual explainer on how Large Language Models (LLMs) work, covering prompt caching, tokenization, embeddings, and the fundamentals of the transformer architecture. It's presented as an accessible introduction to LLM internals.

Sam Rose explains how LLMs work with a visual essay

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