{"id":64622,"date":"2026-04-16T17:59:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=64622"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:59:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:59:24","slug":"how-llms-large-language-models-like-chatgpt-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=64622","title":{"rendered":"How LLMs (Large Language Models) Like ChatGPT Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64623\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Introduction_To_LLMs.jpg\" alt=\"Introduction To LLMs\" width=\"518\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Introduction_To_LLMs.jpg 518w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Introduction_To_LLMs-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This 2 hour Stanford lecture will teach you more about how LLMs like ChatGPT &amp; Claude are built than most people working at top AI companies learn in their entire careers. Bookmark &amp; give this 2 hours, no matter what. You may find it the most productive thing you do this week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RohOnChain\/status\/2044462381997363334?s=20\">https:\/\/x.com\/RohOnChain\/status\/2044462381997363334?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 2 hour Stanford lecture will teach you more about how LLMs like ChatGPT &amp; Claude are built than most people working at top AI companies learn in their entire careers. Bookmark &amp; give this 2 hours, no matter what. You may find it the most productive thing you do this week. https:\/\/x.com\/RohOnChain\/status\/2044462381997363334?s=20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64624,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64622\/revisions\/64624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}