# 🧠 Model Architectures — A Visual History

> **Comprehensive documentation of LLM architecture evolution across generations.**
> Each model family is traced from version 1 to the latest release with architecture diagrams, benchmark tables, and community perspectives — all sourced from official technical papers.

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## 📚 Model Families

| # | Model Family | Versions Covered | Status |
|---|-------------|-----------------|--------|
| 01 | [**Qwen**](01_Qwen.md) | 1 → 1.5 → 2 → 2.5 → 3 | ✅ Complete |
| 02 | [**Llama**](02_Llama.md) | 1 → 2 → 3 → 3.1 → 3.2 → 3.3 → 4 | ✅ Complete |
| 03 | DeepSeek | V1 → V2 → V3 → R1 | 🔜 Planned |
| 04 | [**Gemma**](04_Gemma.md) | 1 → 2 → 3 → 4 | ✅ Complete |
| 05 | Mistral | 7B → Mixtral → Large | 🔜 Planned |
| 06 | Phi | 1 → 1.5 → 2 → 3 → 4 | 🔜 Planned |
| 07 | [**Alpamayo**](07_Alpamayo.md) | R1 → 1.5 (VLA) | ✅ Complete |

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## 🎯 What's Inside Each Document

Every model family document includes:

- **Release timeline** with dates, paper links, and parameter counts
- **Cross-version benchmark tables** sourced from official papers
- **HTML+CSS architecture diagrams** showing what changed between versions
- **10-point summaries** per version covering novel ideas and design decisions
- **Model variant tables** (base, instruct, coder, math, MoE sizes)
- **Community perspectives** and industry reception
- **Full reference tables** linking to all papers, blogs, and repos

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