Next Friday at 19:00 CET / 1:00 PM EST, I’ll be talking about AI beyond transformers with
.We know transformers have plateaued. After GPT-5’s spectacular flop, I doubt many people seriously expect a massive breakthrough with this architecture.
So, what comes after transformers? AI agents? World models? XLSTMs? Is there anything we should watch as closely as we once watched BERT?
It’s a tough question to answer but we’ll try.
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