What Is Mamba? A Complete Guide to Selective State Space Models, How They Compare to Transformers, the Mamba-2 SSD Duality, and Hybrid Architectures Like Qwen3.6, Jamba, and Samba
Mamba is a Selective State Space Model architecture introduced by Gu and Dao in 2023 that scales linearly with sequence length, addressing the Transformer's quadratic-attention bottleneck. Hybrid Mamba-Attention models like Qwen3.6 and Jamba ship in production today.





























