If you’re learning AI you need to become comfortable reading research papers. It’s a non-negotiable. Once you get used to it, here are the papers you should read to prepare for AI in 2026 Attention is All You Need introduced the Transformer, the architecture behind every modern AI model. It changed how we process language by replacing recurrence with attention, making models faster, scalable, and far more powerful. The Hierarchical Reasoning Model paper explores how models can break problems int

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