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Diving into LLMs

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A laptop in a dark room, its screen showing an AI assistant that asks “What do you want to know?” above an “Ask anything” box.
AI & LLMsPart 1 · Diving into LLMs

Diving into LLMs, part 1: how LLMs work, explained simply

ChatGPT felt like magic, so I started building a tiny language model myself, following Andrej Karpathy's Zero to Hero course. How an LLM learns and writes, in plain words and animations: next-word prediction, gradients, training, attention and the full pipeline.

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