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24 alternatives to TinyGPT – A Simple, Educational Deep Learning Library
A tiny version of GPT fully implemented in Python with zero dependencies - isaacperez/tinygpt
TinyGPT is a deep learning library designed for educational purposes. It provides a simplified approach to implementing and understanding neural networks and language models. The library is intended for students and… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. TinyGPT – A Simple, Educational Deep Learning Library launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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very much inspired by karpathy's microgpt of the same name. it's (by default) a 4000 param GPT/LLM/NN that learns to generate names. this is sorta an educational tool in that you can visualize the activations as they pass through the network, and click on things to get an explanation of them.
Feb 2026 · microgpt.boratto.ca · its alternatives →
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Fast and efficient models optimized for coding and subagents
Mar 2026 · openai.com · its alternatives →
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Announcing GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, & GPT-4.1 nano in the API
2025 · openai.com · its alternatives →
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A minimalist deep learning library written from scratch in Python - sradc/SmallPebble
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Absolute minimalistic implementation of a GPT-like transformer using only numpy (<650 lines). - joennlae/tensorli
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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TensorFlow 1.0▲823Open-source machine learning library by Google
2017 · tensorflow.org · its alternatives →
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A robust Python tool for text-based AI training and generation using GPT-2. - minimaxir/aitextgen
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Continual learning model trained from scratch on 8GB VRAM laptop with batch-1 stream of data. - volotat/mini-AGI
Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A ranked ladder for small neural networks that play strategy games. Train a model, write an adapter, upload two files, and get measured into a weight class from 8 KiB up.
Sep 2026 · tinybrains.dev · its alternatives →
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:satellite: Simple and ready-to-use tutorials for TensorFlow - GitHub - instillai/TensorFlow-Course: :satellite: Simple and ready-to-use tutorials for TensorFlow
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I saw a tweet that tinygrad is so good that you could make a graphics library that wraps tg. So I’ve been hacking on a gtinygrad, and honestly it convinced me it could be used for legit research. The JIT + tensor model ends up being a really nice way to express light transport all in simple python, so I reimplemented some new research papers from SIGGRAPH like REstir PG and SZ and it just works. instead of complicated cpp its just a 200 LOC of python.
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I previously posted this a month and a half ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45876742 I have rewritten it to be much more simple, from 951 lines of code to just 364, with no loss in core functionality or generation quality. I also added a tiny GPT implementation as a comparison (inspired by Andrej Karpathy's code). The two model implementations are ~80% identical, with the core differences being the generate and get_batch functions. The model architecture, training loop, etc, differ in only 19 lines of code. Trained weights are included, so you can just clone and run…
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Tighter instruction adherence in speech agents
Feb 2026 · developers.openai.com · its alternatives →
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Go compiler for small places. Microcontrollers, WebAssembly (WASM/WASI), and command-line tools. Based on LLVM. - tinygo-org/tinygo
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Thinc is a lightweight type-checked deep learning library for composing models, with support for layers defined in frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow.
2020 · thinc.ai · its alternatives →
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Learn math and science with interactive visual explanations
Mar 2026 · openai.com · its alternatives →
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We recently used DeepSeek V4 Flash as a teacher for finance tasks with GPT-OSS-120B. Distillation works well on this problem. At a constrained 8k token budget, our self-distilled 120B scores 83.61% on FinanceReasoning, above Kimi K3 (81.93%) and Inkling (65.13%). We released the 20B open weights. With V4 as the teacher though, we realized it would be timely to measure if the censorship characteristic of it transferred to the distilled version of the base model. tl;dr it didn't, the teacher answered politically sensitive questions 7 SDs differently than expected, but the distilled model's…
Jul 2026 · ctgt.ai · its alternatives →
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Flash Attention in ~100 lines of CUDA (forward pass only) - tspeterkim/flash-attention-minimal
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A single / multi layer / recurrent neural network written in Golang. - made2591/go-perceptron-go
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey! This is something i have been working on. A tiny neural networking lib to learn how something like pytorch works, and to improve my own coding standards.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An on-premises, bare-metal solution for deploying GPU-powered applications in containers - emergingstack/es-dev-stack
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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