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"An exceptional deep dive into the next frontier of AI.” —Aman Chadha, Google This book is a practical guide to understanding how modern reasoning-oriented LLMs work by building their core methods step by step. Get the eBook free when you register your print book at Manning. The book tells a clear engineering story: start with a conventional pre-trained LLM, learn how text generation works, build reliable evaluation tools, improve reasoning through inference-time methods, then move into training-based approaches such as reinforcement learning and distillation. The progression is deliberate.