Jay Alammar
Explains machine learning in pictures; The Illustrated Transformer; co-wrote an LLM book.
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- Jay Alammar writes visual explainers of machine learning on his blog.
- The Illustrated Transformer and The Illustrated BERT are referenced in AI courses at MIT, Cornell, Stanford and CMU.
- He co-wrote the O'Reilly book Hands-On Large Language Models.
- He works at Cohere, as of 2026.
Key facts
- Known for
- The Illustrated Transformer; The Illustrated BERT, ELMo, and co.1
- Book
- Hands-On Large Language Models (O'Reilly), co-author1
- Works at
- Cohere (as of 2026)2
- Teaching
- Udacity Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing Nanodegrees1
- Also
- Translated Isaac Asimov's "The Last Question" into Arabic1
Roles
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- CohereOrganization
as of 2026 source on Cohere
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