The Attention Era
An explorable timeline of AI · 2017 → 12 October 2026 · emphasis on 2022 onward

The Attention Era.

An animated interactive timeline of key events from transformers to present day, with a full list of events, concepts, prompts and a glossary.

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All events

Seminal diagrams

The architectures and training recipes behind the events above, redrawn as block diagrams. Each card defines the idea and links the paper that introduced it. Click an event chip to play from there.

Prompt patterns

How people actually talked to these models, era by era. The examples are written for this page in the style of each technique; the origin link points to where the pattern was introduced or documented.

Terms used on this page

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