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The Papers That Define Modern AI
AI moves fast. These are the foundational papers every technical leader should know—curated and explained so you can stay informed without reading 50+ pages.
Why This Matters
You don't need to be an ML researcher to lead AI initiatives. But understanding the core ideas—attention mechanisms, retrieval-augmented generation, alignment techniques—helps you evaluate tools, hire talent, and make better architectural decisions.
What You Get
- •Curated essentials — The foundational papers that shaped LLMs, agents, and retrieval systems
- •Plain-language summaries — Key insights extracted, no PhD required
- •Ask questions — Chat with our AI to explore concepts deeper
The Essential Collection
Attention Is All You Need
Vaswani et al.
2017TransformerFoundationNLPGPT-4 Technical Report
OpenAI
2023LLMMultimodalBenchmarksLlama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models
Touvron et al. (Meta)
2023Open SourceLLMFine-tuningLanguage Models are Few-Shot Learners
Brown et al.
2020LLMIn-Context LearningGPT-3Training Language Models to Follow Instructions
Ouyang et al.
2022RLHFAlignmentInstruction-followingChain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning
Wei et al.
2022ReasoningPromptingChain-of-ThoughtLoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
Hu et al.
2021Fine-tuningEfficiencyPEFTDenoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models
Ho et al.
2020GenerativeVisionDiffusionDeep Residual Learning for Image Recognition
He et al.
2015VisionDeep LearningCNNGenerative Adversarial Nets
Goodfellow et al.
2014GenerativeAdversarialFoundationalDeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
DeepSeek-AI
2025ReasoningReinforcement LearningOpen SourceOpenAI o1 System Card
Jaech et al. (OpenAI)
2024ReasoningTest-Time ComputeSafetyConstitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback
Bai et al. (Anthropic)
2022AlignmentRLHFSafetyScaling Laws for Neural Language Models
Kaplan et al. (OpenAI)
2020ScalingTrainingFundamentalsRetrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks
Lewis et al. (Meta AI)
2020RAGRetrievalKnowledge BasesToolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools
Schick et al. (Meta AI)
2023AgentsToolsFunction CallingMixtral of Experts
Jiang et al. (Mistral AI)
2024ArchitectureOpen SourceEfficiencyHighly Accurate Protein Structure Prediction with AlphaFold
Jumper et al. (DeepMind)
2021Scientific AIDeep LearningReal-World Impact