Jia-Bin Huang, University of Maryland associate professor of computer science, posted a YouTube video titled 'The 60-Year Hunt for AI's Most Important Function' explaining the SwiGLU activation function

— Frank Dellaert replied that he learned from the tutorial.

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OPJH#319Jia-Bin Huang|@JBHUANG0604

The 60-Year Hunt for AI's Most Important Function I was trying to understand how SwiGLU works, but I couldn’t find an explanation that clicked for me. So I made this video to explain it from first principles. Check it out: https://youtu.be/JRaPNrpsQ9s

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REPLYFD#969Frank Dellaert|@FDELLAERT

@jbhuang0604 Nice! I learned a bunch :-)

JHJia-Bin Huang@jbhuang0604

The 60-Year Hunt for AI's Most Important Function I was trying to understand how SwiGLU works, but I couldn’t find an explanation that clicked for me. So I made this video to explain it from first principles. Check it out: https://youtu.be/JRaPNrpsQ9s

2:00 PM · May 18, 2026 · 4.3K Views

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