The Surprising Sparks that Ignited an AI Revolution

Reader question: What led to the sudden rise of several powerful AI LLMs?

GPTs have sparked a renewed global interest in AI. So where did they all come from, and so quickly?

Earlier this week, reader Gil Broza asked the following question (edited for brevity):

In 2022-23, we got the LLMs (large language models). But we didn’t get just one (ChatGPT); we got several, and they all appeared out of nowhere around the same time. Cons…