How AI Works
It predicts the next token. Over and over again.
An interactive walk-through — in 8 small steps — of the one idea every modern AI runs on.
The One Idea: Predict the Next Token
The AI knows a probability between every token and every other token — about 200,000 in total.
A token is a piece of text. "tokenization" → "token" + "ization"
{token}
[10346]{ization}
[2860]{emb}
[2072]{eddings}
[32861]{transform}
[19692]{er}
[259]{under}
[11093]{standing}
[12138]Real substring tokenization:
"tokenization" → {token}+{ization}"embeddings" → {emb}+{eddings}"transformer" → {transform}+{er}"understanding" → {under}+{standing}
8 interactive steps · Real tokenization · Live AI predictions