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Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT

Andrej Karpathy · 10 recommenders · 8 months

Andrej Karpathy's three-hour-plus general-audience deep dive into how ChatGPT-style LLMs are built, covering the full training stack from pretraining to post-training. It also gives mental models for their quirks, like hallucination, and how to use them well.

Why Hacker News readers recommend it: HN's most frequent recommendation for a clear, approachable foundation in how LLMs work without heavy math.

10 recommenders6 strong recommendations2025–2026
LLMs & generative AIMachine learning & deep learning#llm training#chatgpt#pretraining#hallucination#tokenization#andrej karpathy

“I highly recommend Andrej Karpathy's Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT”

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