karpathy/nanoGPT
The simplest, fastest repository for training/finetuning medium-sized GPTs.
63.8k stars · 11k forks · Python
Healthy
Healthy: no known risks in the checks that ran.
Why
No rule fired.
What would change this
- Partly checked: people (Only 1 human commits were found, too few to judge who maintains the project.)
- A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.
Maintenance
CompleteSteady
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 0
- Human commits, 365 days
- 1
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Nov 12, 2025 (11 months ago)
- Last human commit
- Nov 12, 2025 (11 months ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 0
- Last release
- none found
- Median PR merge time
- 5 days
Responsiveness: of 4 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
- Only 4 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Partial- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 1 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 36
Top committers
- karpathy: 100% of commits
- Only 1 human commits were found, too few to judge who maintains the project.
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Mar 16, 2023 to Mar 21, 2023: about 564 more stars than usual, peak 217 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 24, 2023 to Jul 27, 2023: about 356 more stars than usual, peak 163 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Oct 11, 2023 to Oct 13, 2023: about 139 more stars than usual, peak 94 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Feb 13, 2024 to Feb 14, 2024: about 79 more stars than usual, peak 68 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Feb 18, 2024 to Feb 27, 2024: about 318 more stars than usual, peak 78 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 8, 2024 to Apr 11, 2024: about 189 more stars than usual, peak 89 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Jun 10, 2024 to Jun 13, 2024: about 789 more stars than usual, peak 395 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 29, 2025 to Jan 30, 2025: about 68 more stars than usual, peak 70 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Oct 13, 2025 to Nov 12, 2025: about 3.8k more stars than usual, peak 376 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Feb 11, 2026 to Feb 15, 2026: about 251 more stars than usual, peak 120 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 9, 2026 to Mar 10, 2026: about 119 more stars than usual, peak 118 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 4, 2026 to Jul 5, 2026: about 231 more stars than usual, peak 164 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- 8 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
No published packages found.
Sources: GitHub: karpathy/nanoGPT
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- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 13, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 13, 2026: Healthy
Computed 18 hours ago · method 2026.10.2