x.comRohitMon, May 18, 2026, 10:39 AM PDT
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Tokenization fundamentals unlock massive LLM cost savings
Original: andrej karpathy spent two hours teaching one thing: tokens are the atom of llms. tokenization is at the heart of every llm weirdness you've ever debugged.
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