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Meta's open-weights LLM family, named after a South American camelid.
Llama
Two 3-letter acronyms: RAG and MCP
Retrieval-Augmented Generation & Model Context Protocol
The year ChatGPT was publicly launched.
2022
The year the Berlin Wall fell.
1989 (Nov 9)
Python web framework, async-first, built by Sebastián Ramírez
FastAPI
MoE
Mixture of Experts
The year "Attention Is All You Need" (the Transformer paper) was published.
2017
The animal on Berlin's coat of arms.
Bear
LangChain's main competitor for building LLM apps over your data; created by Jerry Liu, originally "GPT Index."
LlamaIndex
RLHF
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
The year IBM's Watson won Jeopardy! against Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.
2011
BER Airport was originally scheduled to open in October of this year
2011 (it actually opened in 2020)
High-throughput LLM inference engine from UC Berkeley using PagedAttention.
vLLM
DPO
Direct Preference Optimization
The year the term "Artificial Intelligence" was coined at the Dartmouth Conference.
1956
British architect responsible for the glass-dome reconstruction of the Reichstag, completed in 1999
Norman Foster
OpenAI's open-source Python-like language for writing high-performance GPU kernels.
Triton
GRPO
Group Relative Policy Optimization
(the reinforcement-learning algorithm that powered DeepSeek-R1's reasoning training)
The year McCulloch & Pitts published the first mathematical model of a neural network — ML's "birth year."
1943
In 1432, two medieval settlements merged to form a twin city that would become the nucleus of modern Berlin. Berlin was one — what was the other?
Cölln