Module 12
Frontier Topics
What changed recently and is likely to still matter. Treat this module as perishable — revisit it every quarter.
8 topics ~29 h estimated learning time
Comes after08. Large Language Models
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- 12.1 Reasoning models and test-time compute
Advanced · 4 h
- 12.2 Mixture of experts and sparse models
Advanced · 4 h
- 12.3 Long context and state-space models
Advanced · 4 h
- 12.4 Synthetic data and distillation at scale
Advanced · 4 h
- 12.5 World models and video generation
Advanced · 3 h
- 12.6 Small models and on-device AI
Advanced · 3 h
- 12.7 Evaluation science
Advanced · 3 h
- 12.8 Keeping up without drowning
Core · 4 h