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Without Adam, there's a good chance ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, and many of today's large language models would have taken much longer to become reality.
When people talk about the breakthroughs behind modern AI, they usually mention the Transformer, attention, GPUs, or massive datasets.
Rarely does anyone mention the optimizer.
Yet every single gradient update during the training of a modern LLM depends on an optimization algorithm deciding how much every parameter should change. With billions of parameters and trillions of training tokens, that decision becomes one of the most important engineering problems in machine learning.
