AI Open Source

Building a GPT-2 Level LLM for $100: Analyzing Karpathy's nanochat Pipeline

Andrej Karpathy's nanochat project demonstrates how to train a GPT-2 level LLM for just $100 in two hours, significantly reducing costs from $43,000 in 2019. It provides a complete pipeline from tokenization to SFT, making high-performance model training accessible to engineers.