Next-token prediction in JavaScript
What inspired this project today was watching this amazing video by 3Blue1Brown called "But what is a GPT?" on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M - I highly recommend watching it). I added it to the repo for reference. When it clicked in my head that "knowing a fact" is nearly synonymous with predicting a word (or series of words), I wanted to put it to the test, because it seemed so simple. I chose JavaScript because I can exploit the way it structures objects to aid in the modeling of language. For example: "I want to be at the beach", "I will do it later",…
Next-token prediction in JavaScript launched on April 10, 2024 with 88 votes, #580 of 4,347 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
Next-token prediction in JavaScript is a language model implementation that predicts the next word in a sequence based on training data. Built in JavaScript, it leverages the language's object structure to efficiently store and retrieve word patterns for prediction tasks. The project demonstrates how language understanding can be modeled as a word prediction problem, using JavaScript's fast object lookup to find known sentence patterns rather than recursive text searching.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
Next-token prediction in JavaScript — build fast language and diffusion models. - bennyschmidt/next-token-prediction
In the maker’s words, at launch
What inspired this project today was watching this amazing video by 3Blue1Brown called "But what is a GPT?" on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M - I highly recommend watching it). I added it to the repo for reference. When it clicked in my head that "knowing a fact" is nearly…
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