Vocab Break: Claude's Small Tokenizer

Claude's tokenizer reportedly runs ~15,000 entries, well below the industry trend of ever-larger vocabularies. Speculation points to Anthropic working around the final softmax layer bottleneck, a tradeoff that could affect training efficiency and model behavior.

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