Ask HN: A Brief History of LLMs
Does anyone have suggestions for a book or an article that goes over the modern history of ML/LLM and how the field reached the inflection point that paved the path to the current state.
Which contains "The 35 Year History of ChatGPT" and "How LLMs Took Over The World"
Somebody ought to write it.
This is probably closest, but it's not an entertaining narrative history, more of a reference: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262552691/large-language-models...
roughly
1. word2vec ('13)
2. transformers ('18)
3. chatgpt ('22)
4. claude code, i.e. tools / bash (mid '25)
5. llms trained for agentic workflow (nov '25)
6. cost reckoning ('26)
7. open weight models break the financial models of Big Ai ('26?)