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Artificial intelligence is undergoing a shift as fundamental as the move from mainframes to networks.

Capabilities that were once separate modules—attention, memory, reasoning, and planning—are being absorbed into unified, self-organizing systems. The result is a new class of software that does not merely respond, but pursues goals.

From Transformers to Agents traces this transformation from first principles to the boardroom. It begins with the mechanics of attention and the Transformer, then follows the evolution through reinforcement learning, adaptive inference, memory architectures, mixture-of-experts, and world models—before arriving at the question that matters most to every organization:

What changes when software can set its own sub-goals and act on them?

This second edition is substantially expanded. Every chapter includes a new section covering developments through 2026—including reasoning trained through verifiable rewards, natively sparse attention, governed agent memory, real-time interactive world models, and the open protocols now connecting agent ecosystems.

It also confronts the harder evidence: why the overwhelming majority of enterprise pilots never reach production—and what separates the few that succeed.

Written for engineers, architects, and executives alike, From Transformers to Agents moves seamlessly from equations to enterprise operating models without losing either audience.

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