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🧠 Foundations of LLMs & GenAI

TokenizationModels do not read characters or words; they read tokens, subword chunks produced by an algorithm like BPE that maps text to integer IDs. Tokenization decides how many tokens a piece of text costs (driving price, latency, and context usage), why models miscount letters or fumble rare words, and why non-English text is more expensive. Applied-AI interviews probe it because token accounting is the first thing that bites a production LLM bill.

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