Karpathy's nanochat Hits 59K Stars: Train a ChatGPT-like Model from Scratch for $100

Andrej Karpathy's open-source project nanochat has reached nearly 60K stars. Unlike projects built on pretrained weights, it provides a complete LLM engineering lab in a single repository, letting users train a ChatGPT-like model from scratch for about $100.

2026-11-01 ~ 2026-11-02 · 2 related posts

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