Plain-English summaries of important AI research papers, with links to the original work.
Updated Jun 24, 2026
Before GPT dominated headlines, BERT showed that pretraining a Transformer to read text in both directions could transform language understanding. Here is what the landmark 2018 paper introduced.
The 2020 GPT-3 paper made a startling claim: make a language model big enough and it learns new tasks from a few examples in the prompt, with no retraining. Here is what it showed.
CLIP learned to link pictures and language by studying hundreds of millions of image–caption pairs from the web. It quietly became the foundation for image search and generation.
Every modern language model — GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama — descends from one 2017 paper. Here is what 'Attention Is All You Need' actually proposed, in plain English, and why it changed everything.
Fine-tuning a giant model used to require giant resources. LoRA showed you can adapt one by training a tiny number of extra parameters — and it became the default method for customizing open models.