Intro to Large Language Models

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Andrej Karpathy — formerly of OpenAI and Tesla, one of the most respected practitioners in the field — gives a one-hour talk explaining what large language models are, how they're trained, and where they're headed. Aimed at a general audience but doesn't talk down to you. Assumes you're smart and willing to follow along. Karpathy is unusually good at explaining the leap from "predicting the next word" to "appears to reason." This video is the closest thing to a single source-of-truth introduction to how modern AI assistants work. Save it, watch it, then watch it again in six months when more of it makes sense. Best for technically inclined readers who want to understand how ChatGPT and Claude were built, not just how to use them.

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