Monday, October 26, 2026 · Edition updated 6:00 AM ETMON, OCT 26 editionNext edition in Next in --:--:--
Intelligence Verdict
Talk · How AI works

[1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language Models

Andrej Karpathy's one-hour introduction to what large language models are and where they are headed, comparing them to a computer operating system and covering their security challenges. The description notes it reflects the state of the field as of November 2023.

Andrej Karpathy · Nov 22, 2023
How AI works

More to watch.

Alexander Amini · Apr 14, 2025

MIT 6.S191 (2025): Large Language Models (Google)

Peter Grabowski of Google, who leads an applied research team working on Gemini, gives a guest lecture on large language models as part of MIT's 2025 Introduction to Deep Learning course.

Anthropic · Mar 27, 2025

Tracing the thoughts of a large language model

Anthropic introduces two interpretability research papers that map the internal circuits behind its Claude model's thinking. One example suggests the model picks rhyme words before writing the line that leads to them, which hints that it plans ahead even though it outputs one word at a time.

Made by the company itself
Alexander Amini · Mar 3, 2025

MIT Introduction to Deep Learning (2025) | 6.S191

Alexander Amini gives the opening lecture of MIT's 2025 Introduction to Deep Learning course (6.S191), on the foundations of deep learning and neural networks.

Andrej Karpathy · Feb 5, 2025

Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT

Andrej Karpathy gives a general-audience walkthrough of how large language models like ChatGPT are built, from the full training process to practical use. He also offers ways to think about how the models behave and how to get good results from them.

Y Combinator · Feb 5, 2025

The Engineering Unlocks Behind DeepSeek | YC Decoded

Y Combinator's Diana Hu explains the engineering techniques behind DeepSeek's models, including its open R1 reasoning model, and where they fit in recent AI developments.

3Blue1Brown · Nov 20, 2024

Large Language Models explained briefly

3Blue1Brown gives a short introduction to large language models, covering chatbots, pretraining and transformers. It was made for an exhibit at the Computer History Museum.

Title, channel and date checked on YouTube Oct 25, 2026. The summary is ours, from the video's own description. The pictures on our video cards are our own drawings for each kind of video, not frames from the videos. The video plays in YouTube's privacy-enhanced player; we don't copy or host it.