[cubefox]

Loosely related thought: A year ago, there was a lot of talk about the Mamba SSM architecture replacing transformers. Apparently that didn't happen so far.

[thesz]

Just like with neural networks and Adam [1], LLMs evolve to make transformers their best building block.

[1] https://parameterfree.com/2020/12/06/neural-network-maybe-ev...