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A minimal PyTorch re-implementation of the OpenAI GPT (Generative Pretrained Transformer) training

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LICENSE file

MIT No license change recorded since the repository was created in 2020.

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No GitHub releases published; the project releases elsewhere (tags or its own site).

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Repository
karpathy/minGPT · created Aug 17, 2020
Language
Python
Foundation
None; run by its maintainers
GitHub detects
MIT
Stars per week
13 (GitHub weekly snapshots)

Weekly snapshots

Week ofStars
Nov 2, 202624,994
Oct 19, 202624,966
Oct 12, 202624,950
Sep 28, 202624,929
Sep 21, 202624,914

Changes

Stars per weekOct 24, 2026

Gains about 13 stars a week, up from 12.

Stars per weekOct 16, 2026

Gains about 12 stars a week, down from 15.

Stars per weekOct 4, 2026

Gains about 15 stars a week.

TrackedSep 25, 2026

Now tracked, from karpathy/minGPT on GitHub.