The Model Size Explosion
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The Model Size Explosion
From 1 parameter to 1.76 trillion — how AI models grew 1,760,000,000,000× in 65 years. A logarithmic journey through the exponential growth of artificial intelligence.
Neural Net
CNN
Transformer
LLM
Built for aihistoryproject.org — To understand where AI is going, start with where it began.Sources: Epoch AI · Stanford AI Index · Original papers