Step 01 / 02
Build the block
A modern language model stacks many Transformer blocks. Each block is a familiar story: represent tokens, let them exchange context, transform those representations, then pass them on.
Walk the stages. Production blocks also include details like residual connections and normalization — important later, optional for the first mental model.
Tokens
Embeddings
Positional information
Self-attention
Feed-forward network
Output representation
Tokens
Start from tokenized input — the pieces the model can process.