Karpathy: it's all text prediction — no images involved, only 2D arrangement of responses
karpathy · x · 2026-10-02
Karpathy emphasizes that these model capabilities come purely from reading a ton of text and predicting text. No images are involved, except in how text responses are arranged in 2D.
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