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The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy.

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  1. …small models or torturing yourself working the GPU for days per iteration trying to run things like https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat , which is hardly an educational experience. Renting cloud GPUs is expensive, and at this age the most…
    comment by deepllm · 2026-08-24 · in I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch
  2. …same kind of experimentation into a training speedrun (and maybe loses some rigor on the way) [2] 1 https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat/blob/master/dev/LOG.md 2 https://github.com/kellerjordan/modded-nanogpt
    comment by wongarsu · 2026-04-05 · in Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs
  3. You're missing the point. Karpathy has other projects, e.g. : https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat You can train a model with GPT-2 level of capability for $20-$100. But, guess what, that's exactly what thousands of AI researchers have…
    comment by killerstorm · 2026-03-01 · in Microgpt
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    Beating GPT-2 for less than $100 – Andrej Karpathy
    story by logicprog · 2026-02-17 · 0 comments
  5. …might be working on other projects that aren't public yet (as part of his work at Eureka Labs). 1: https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat
    comment by ayewo · 2026-01-28 · in A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
  6. https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat https://github.com/karpathy/llm.c The proof is in the pudding. Let's see your code
    comment by reducesuffering · 2026-01-27 · in A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
  7. I used this just now on https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat and here is the output site built from the wiki markdown: https://comforting-alfajores-8752fe.netlify.app/readme
    comment by jackomelon · 2026-01-10 · in Show HN: Show HN: Ted Mosby – open-source Claude agent for architectural wikis
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    Show HN: Revibing nanochat's inference model in C++ with ggml
    story by makechan · 2026-01-10 · 0 comments
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    Nanochat Miniseries v1
    story by mfiguiere · 2026-01-07 · 0 comments
  10. …to do a SOTA model from scratch! If you relax the SOTA aspect, Karpathy's nanochat has you covered: https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat
    comment by huevosabio · 2025-12-12 · in Ask HN: Relatively SoTA LLM Agents from Scratch?
  11. Related: https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat/pull/306
    comment by nomilk · 2025-12-09 · in Python's random.seed(x) and random.seed(-x) are treated identically
  12. …teach me, someone who has real knowledge of the subject, not just something on Google. [1]: https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat
    comment by AnonHP · 2025-11-21 · in nanochat.karpathy.ai
  13. Context: https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat
    comment by conqrr · 2025-11-20 · in nanochat.karpathy.ai
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    Nanochat d34 model (~$2,500)
    story by danielfalbo · 2025-11-20 · 0 comments
  15. …nanochat will become the capstone project of the course LLM101n being developed by Eureka Labs. [0] https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat
    comment by leobg · 2025-11-03 · in Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016)
  16. …neural networks) and all of the stuff on YouTube. Plus his GitHub. The recently released nanochat https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat is fantastic. Having minimal, understandable and complete examples like that is invaluable for anyone…
    comment by gchadwick · 2025-11-02 · in Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016)
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    Counting R in strawberry – nanochat guide
    story by avestura · 2025-10-24 · 0 comments
  18. …us spend more time in the bits that aren't boring and are actually challenging and interesting. [0] https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat [1] https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat/tree/master/tasks
    comment by theshrike79 · 2025-10-16 · in Why the push for Agentic when models can barely follow a simple instruction?
  19. …training data and $100 worth of (high-end) rented Cloud computer time. The original post is https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat/discussions/1 The post this is on is commentary from simonw about Karpathy's post. The NanoLLM he created is,…
    comment by fragmede · 2025-10-14 · in Nanochat
  20. …using standard AdamW." And I just looked into this nanochat repo and it's also how it's used here. https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat/blob/dd6ff9a1cc23b38ce6...
    comment by spyder · 2025-10-14 · in NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy
  21. I created this PR to make it easier for folks to train and serve it on any cloud (or their own K8s): https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat/pull/18
    comment by alex000kim · 2025-10-14 · in NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy
  22. There is a new repo of karpathy: https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat . It's a full-stack implementation of an LLM like ChatGPT in a single, clean, minimal, hackable, dependency-lite codebase.
    comment by liqilin1567 · 2025-10-14 · in Ask HN: Build Your Own LLM?
  23. https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat
    comment by srameshc · 2025-10-13 · in Nanochat
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