How It Works
Architecture
The overall design of an AI model or system: how its parts are arranged and connected. 'Transformer architecture' means the specific design behind GPT, Claude and most modern AI; a new architecture means a different design, not just a bigger version.
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Borrowed from building design via early computing — 'computer architecture' was standard by the 1960s (IBM's System/360 era). Applied to neural networks from the 1980s onward. No single documented coiner for the AI usage.
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