Transformers: The Discovery That Sparked the AI Revolution
Podcast: Y Combinator Startup PodcastPublished On: Thu Oct 23 2025
Description: Nearly every modern AI model, from ChatGPT and Claude to Gemini and Grok, is built on the same foundation: the Transformer.In this video, YC's Ankit Gupta traces how AI learned to understand language — from early RNNs and LSTMs to attention mechanisms and the breakthrough 2017 paper Attention Is All You Need — the discovery that unlocked the modern AI era.
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