LLM Family Tree: A Map of AI Research (2017-2025)

AI research continues to move at a breakneck speed, countless new models, ideas, and innovations coming out every week. With such a rapid pace, however, it is difficult to keep track of the bigger picture on how far we have come and where we are going. That's why I thought it might be helpful to create a map of LLM research of the past 8 years. For the uninitiated this might act as a primer of sorts, for those of us who have been following along the whole time perhaps it can act as a refresher, but hopefully for everyone it can provide an interesting summary of the incredible progress AI researchers have made in recent times.

You can view the map here and if you want to take a look at the code (or contribute!) you can do so here.

Likely this still needs some work and no doubt it will look completely different in the years to code. If you have any comments or suggestion feel free to let me know!