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Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals AI-900 · Domain 2: Fundamental principles of machine learning on Azure

The transformer architecture: tokens, embeddings and attention

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Last reviewed September 25, 2026 · Leer en español

The transformer is the neural network architecture behind today's language models, including the GPT family used in Azure OpenAI. AI-900 expects you to know its main ideas at a conceptual level: tokens, embeddings and attention.

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