Curated by Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Co-founder)
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"If you really learn all of these, you'll know 90% of what matters today" — Ilya Sutskever
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Foundational Papers
The most influential papers that shaped modern AI
#13Transformer
Attention Is All You Need
The foundation of GPT & Claude
#7AlexNet
ImageNet Classification with Deep CNNs
Started the deep learning revolution
#22
Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models
Why bigger models work better
#10ResNet
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"If you really learn all of these, you'll know 90% of what matters today."
Ilya Sutskever
Co-founder, OpenAI • Chief Scientist
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