As LLMs get bigger and better, transformers have become a bottleneck. Here are four new ideas for how to solve the transformer problem—innovations that could change LLMs for good, making them faster, far more efficient, and (maybe) even smarter. AI professors are negotiating the new realities of academic research—Grace HuckinsLast week, I headed to a hotel in Mountain View, California, to join some of the most accomplished, and some of the most promising, AI researchers in the world. It’s a weird time for university AI researchers, who make up most of the AI2050 group. This story is from The Algorithm, our weekly AI newsletter.