nanoGPT
The simplest, fastest repository for training/finetuning medium-sized GPTs.
Growth we measured
5 daily star snapshots stored by whatstrending.ai, 2026-07-05 to 2026-08-23. GitHub shows today's number; this is the movement behind it.
- Ranked #180 by stars among the 2,497 repos we snapshot, using the latest star count we recorded for each.
How this is measured. whatstrending.ai stores its own daily star and fork snapshot for every repo in its trending index. Every figure above is a delta between two of those stored rows — 5 snapshots for karpathy/nanoGPT between 2026-07-05 and 2026-08-23. Our history starts 2026-06-19; we hold nothing from before that date. Nothing here is estimated, interpolated or back-filled, and days without a snapshot are simply not plotted.
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