When we look at the massive scale of today’s Artificial Intelligence boom, it is easy to forget that the foundations of this trillion-dollar industry were laid down over 30 years ago in Munich. Today, the world's top tech companies are investing hundreds of billions into scaling up Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT. Yet, outside of a few history buffs or old-school folks in the Machine Learning community, people might not realize that virtually every core building block of these...
