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(Ahead of AI) Beyond Standard LLMs

Linear Attention Hybrids, Text Diffusion, Code World Models, and Small Recursive Transformers

Sebastian Raschka, PhD
Nov 04, 2025
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From DeepSeek R1 to MiniMax-M2, the largest and most capable open-weight LLMs today remain autoregressive decoder-style transformers, which are built on flavors of the original multi-head attention m…

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