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Covers the four core innovations: Multihead Latent Attention (MLA) for KV cache compression, Mixture of Experts (MoE) for efficient scaling, Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) for richer training signals, and Rotary Positional Embeddings (RoPE) for better positional encoding. This first lesson implements the model configuration dataclass and the RoPE/RMSNorm modules, with a small educational model trained on TinyStories as the target. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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