karpathy/nanochat
- Total stars
- 59,667
- Today
- +66since 11:38 UTC
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About the project
A minimal experimental harness for training LLMs on a single GPU node, covering tokenization, pretraining, finetuning, evaluation and inference. It lets you train a GPT-2-capability model for about $48 and chat with it via CLI.
Useful for
- Train your own GPT-2-capability model on 8XH100 and chat with it via CLI
- Set model complexity with a single --depth flag and get auto-tuned hyperparameters
- Reproduce the GPT-2 speedrun and compare training time against the leaderboard
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Star growth looks organic. Data as of November 2, 2026, 14:18 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-02 (UTC), 11:38–14:01: 59601 → 59667 stars (+66). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +150 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 7× that of the previous week and a half.
- Elevated gains were measured on the last 2 completed UTC days in a row. Continued growth is not guaranteed.
- GitHub Trending today: #14, +325 stars.
- GitHub Trending Python today: #5, +325 stars.
- About 36 forks a day — people are taking the code.
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
New stars over 7 days: 656. +220% versus the preceding 7 days.
Daily measurements · UTC
- October 26, 2026
- 68
- October 27, 2026
- 65
- October 28, 2026
- 31
- October 29, 2026
- 23
- October 30, 2026
- 32
- October 31, 2026
- 85
- November 1, 2026
- 352
Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 352 · November 1, 2026. Days with data: 30.
Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: November 2, 2026, 14:18 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →
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Numbers
- Total stars
- 59,667
- Today
- +66 stars measured 2026-11-02, 11:38–14:01 UTC, ≈ 150 by evening
- Forks
- 8,390
- Issues and pull requests
- 693
- Watchers
- 381
- Language
- Python
- License
- MIT
- Created
- October 13, 2025
- Last push
- September 7, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Spotted in
- November 2, 2026GitHub Trending today: #14, +325 stars; GitHub Trending Python today: #5, +325 stars
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