karpathy/nanoGPT

The simplest, fastest repository for training/finetuning medium-sized GPTs.

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• NanoGPT (1,532 points, 320 comments, by trekhleb, 2023-01-11)
• NanoGPT: The simplest, fastest repository for training medium-sized GPTs (114 points, 21 comments, by ulrischa, 2024-06-11)
• Tiny Shakespeare, of the good old char-RNN fame (4 points, 0 comments, by Bluestein, 2024-09-04)
• nanoGPT: The simplest repository for training medium-sized GPTs (3 points, 1 comments, by isoprophlex, 2023-01-03)
• The simplest, fastest repository for training and fine-tuning medium-sized GPTs (2 points, 0 comments, by Terretta, 2023-01-10)
• NanoGPT (2 points, 0 comments, by nothrowaways, 2025-09-17)