nanoGPT license, foundation and stars
ML frameworks · MIT (open source) · 63,368 stars
The simplest, fastest repository for training/finetuning medium-sized GPTs.
License history
LICENSE fileMIT No license change recorded since the repository was created in 2022.
Latest release
No GitHub releases published; the project releases elsewhere (tags or its own site).
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About and history
- Repository
- karpathy/nanoGPT · created Dec 28, 2022
- Language
- Python
- Foundation
- None; run by its maintainers
- GitHub detects
- MIT
- Stars per week
- From the second weekly snapshot
Weekly snapshots
| Week of | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | 63,368 |
Changes
| What changed | |
|---|---|
| Sep 25, 2026 | TrackedAdded: karpathy/nanoGPT |