Open Source Code for "Hands-On Large Language Models" Released with 300+ Diagrams
techNmak · x · 2026-08-10
Jay Alammar (creator of The Illustrated Transformer) and Maarten Grootendorst have open-sourced the entire codebase for their O'Reilly book, Hands-On Large Language Models.
Featuring nearly 300 custom-made illustrations, the repository covers 12 chapters ranging from tokens, embeddings, and Transformer internals to prompt engineering, RAG, multimodality, and fine-tuning. It serves as a highly visual, free masterclass in LLMs.
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