From GPT-1 to GPT-4o: A Deep Dive into the Evolution of Large Language Models
This article chronicles the rapid progression of GPT models from the 2018 GPT‑1 pre‑training breakthrough through GPT‑2’s multitask learning, GPT‑3’s scaling laws and few‑shot abilities, to GPT‑4’s multimodal capabilities and the 2024 GPT‑4 Turbo, Sora, and GPT‑4o releases, while also explaining core LLM abilities and the decoder‑only architecture of GPT‑2.
