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Andre Karpathy Unveils Nanochat: Affordable AI Chatbot Revolution

10/21/2025

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Andrej Karpathy, computer scientist, has launched Nanochat, an open-source large language model project, claiming it is "the best ChatGPT that $100 can buy."
Nanochat comprises about 8,000 lines of code and lets users create a simple ChatGPT clone via a web interface.
NVIDIA provides Launchables to deploy Nanochat on various GPUs.
The project offers a $100 version with basic functionality and a $1,000 version with significantly improved performance.

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Andrej Karpathy, computer scientist, has launched Nanochat, an open-source large language model project, claiming it is "the best ChatGPT that $100 can buy."
Nanochat comprises about 8,000 lines of code and lets users create a simple ChatGPT clone via a web interface.
NVIDIA provides Launchables to deploy Nanochat on various GPUs.
The project offers a $100 version with basic functionality and a $1,000 version with significantly improved performance.