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nano GPT

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Last discussed Oct 12, 2026

Andrej Karpathy's minimalist implementation of GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) for educational purposes.

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Philip
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"we trained Andre Karpathy's nano GPT on there"

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Owen He
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Praised: Shows that training time keeps shrinking on the same hardware through algorit...

"I can also give an example from AI. I don't know if you know this nanoGPT benchmark they are running. It's basically asking you to retrain GPT-2, which when it just came out is a very expensive model to train... and right now people can train on a..."

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Alex Wissner-Gross
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"We talk on the pod all the time about the nanoGPT speedrun world record collapsing... a collapse from like 60 or 70 seconds down to something like 40 seconds."

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Used for: Baseline for algorithmic efficiency research showing 99% cost reduction in training Praised: Enabled community-driven 99% cost reduction in GPT-2 training; innovations ap... vs: Innovations from this speedrun are now proven applicable to frontier-scale mo...

"In the form of Andrej Karpathy's nano GPT in particular — the Keller Jordan speedrun — a whole bunch of hackers and AI researchers who are continually trying to recreate GPT-2 faster and cheaper. They've been able to cut the original cost of creat..."

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Ramin Hasani
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vs: Referenced as Karpathy's prior work before joining Anthropic to work on pre-t...

"Andre was talking about nano GPT style kind of fine-tuning. Andre joined Anthropic and now he's working on pre-training automation — basically automation of automation."

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