karpathy/nanochat
The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy.
- Stars60.1k
- LanguagePython
- LicenseMIT
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About karpathy/nanochat
The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy.
nanochat is the simplest experimental harness for training LLMs. It is designed to run on a single GPU node, the code is minimal/hackable, and it covers all major LLM stages including tokenization, pretraining, finetuning, evaluation, and inference. For example, you can train your own GPT-2 capability LLM (which cost ~$43,000 to train in 2019) for only $48 (~2 hours of 8XH100 GPU node) and then talk to it over a…
- Stars
- 60.1k
- Forks
- 8433
- Language
- Python
- License
- MIT
- Last push
- Sep 7, 2026
- Created
- Oct 13, 2025
Description and README excerpt from karpathy/nanochat on GitHub ↗.
Trending history
karpathy/nanochat was first seen on GitHub · Trending today on Nov 2, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 41 checks on 3 different days, across 2 lists (GitHub · Trending today, GitHub · Trending Python today). Its best position was #14 of 15, reached on Nov 2, 11:00 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 4, 11:49 UTC.
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Where it trended
| List | Best | Days | Checks | Last seen |
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| GitHub · Trending today | #14 | 2 | 24 | |
| GitHub · Trending Python today | #5 | 3 | 17 |
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Is karpathy/nanochat trending on GitHub Trending right now?
Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 4, 11:49 UTC, after 3 days of trending.
What is the highest rank karpathy/nanochat reached?
#14 on GitHub · Trending today, on Nov 2, 11:00 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 60 minutes.
How long has karpathy/nanochat been trending?
It was first seen on Nov 2, 2026 and has been on the list on 3 days (41 checks) since.
What language is karpathy/nanochat written in, and what is its license?
Mostly Python; it is licensed under MIT. It has 60.1k stars and 8433 forks.