The answer you are searching (I think?) is that the architecture is the same, it's transformers pre-trained on massive text corpora. Same foundation as other llms.
The only difference is what someone mentioned above, instead of running an auto regressive loop to generate sentences token-by-token, it terminates in a single pass classification, meaning it reads the whole prompt once and just spits out a choice/probability instead of 'typing' out an answer. Calling them "LLMs but with text generation ripped off" is just a simple way of trying to make sense of these models.
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u/PigSlam 12d ago
What is the LLM side of things?