The 2025 AI Engineering Reading List - Latent Space
The picks from all the speakers in our Best of 2024 series catches you up for 2024, but since we wrote about running Paper Clubs, we’ve been asked many times for a reading list to recommend for those starting from scratch at work or with friends. We started with the 2023 a16z Canon, but it needs a 2025 update and a practical focus.
be very oriented toward the AI Engineer; no time wasted on Attention is All You Need, bc 1) everyone else already starts there, 2) most won’t really need it at work
GPT1, GPT2, GPT3, Codex, InstructGPT, GPT4 papers . Self explanatory. GPT3.5, 4o, o1, and o3 tended to have launch events and system cards instead.
Claude 3 and Gemini 1 papers to understand the competition. Latest iterations are Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Gemini 2.0 Flash/ Flash Thinking. Also Gemma 2.
LLaMA 1, Llama 2, Llama 3 papers to understand the leading open models. You can also view Mistral 7B, Mixtral and Pixtral as a branch on the Llama family tree.
