There was the Byte Latent Transformer, to end the tokenizer, which seemingly went nowhere. https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/byte-latent-transformer-pat

There was the Byte Latent Transformer, to end the tokenizer, which seemingly went nowhere. https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/byte-latent-transformer-patches-scale-better-than-tokens/ https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/byte-latent-transf...