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Andrej Karpathy
An experimental agent loop that changes training code, runs short experiments, and keeps improvements to a small language model.
View source on GitHub 93,897 stars checked 2026-08-15
- Access
- Open source
- Setup
- Technical
- Pricing
- Free software; substantial GPU costs
- License
- MIT
- Maintenance
- Limited recent activity
- Last repository push
- 2026-03-26
Compelling but highly specialized
It is a clear, minimal example of an agent conducting measurable machine-learning experiments autonomously.
Who it fits
ML researchers with suitable NVIDIA hardware who want a controlled autonomous experimentation baseline.
Who should skip it
General research, consumer tasks, or users without a strong GPU and ML engineering experience.
What you need
- NVIDIA GPU tested on H100
- Python 3.10+ and uv
- ML experiment supervision