What’s Driving the Latest LLM Architecture Trends? DeepSeek, OLMo, Gemma, and More Explained
This article examines the evolution of large language model architectures over the past seven years, comparing key design choices such as Multi‑Head Latent Attention, Grouped‑Query Attention, Mixture‑of‑Experts, sliding‑window attention, normalization placement, and optimizer variants across models like DeepSeek V3, OLMo 2, Gemma 3, Llama 4, Qwen 3, SmolLM 3, and Kimi 2.
