rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch
Implement a ChatGPT-like LLM in PyTorch from scratch, step by step
106.5k stars · 16.4k forks · Jupyter Notebook
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 74% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
Maintenance
CompleteActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 11
- Human commits, 90 days
- 20
- Human commits, 365 days
- 98
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Oct 2, 2026 (12 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 2, 2026 (12 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 8
- Last release
- none found
- Median PR merge time
- under an hour
Responsiveness: of 9 recent issues, 100% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 2 hours.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 98 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 4
- Contributors
- 69
Top committers
- rasbt: 74% of commits
- casinca: 4% of commits
- amit-chaubey: 1% of commits
- ankanz1: 1% of commits
- anthonyhchan: 1% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteMostly organic, confidence high
Bursts
- Dec 17, 2023 to Dec 27, 2023: about 355 more stars than usual, peak 166 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jan 7, 2024 to Jan 17, 2024: about 689 more stars than usual, peak 314 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jan 27, 2024 to Feb 14, 2024: about 7.2k more stars than usual, peak 1.6k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- Mar 7, 2024 to Mar 11, 2024: about 833 more stars than usual, peak 278 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 22, 2024 to Mar 28, 2024: about 1.3k more stars than usual, peak 311 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 17, 2024 to Apr 18, 2024: about 187 more stars than usual, peak 164 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- May 4, 2024 to May 14, 2024: about 1.7k more stars than usual, peak 424 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 3, 2024 to Jun 11, 2024: about 1.2k more stars than usual, peak 428 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 15, 2024 to Jul 16, 2024: about 746 more stars than usual, peak 661 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 8, 2024 to Sep 18, 2024: about 891 more stars than usual, peak 189 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Nov 3, 2024 to Nov 20, 2024: about 1.8k more stars than usual, peak 352 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Feb 4, 2025 to Feb 5, 2025: about 139 more stars than usual, peak 163 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 21, 2025 to Apr 30, 2025: about 1.8k more stars than usual, peak 440 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Jun 20, 2025 to Jul 3, 2025: about 5.6k more stars than usual, peak 1.7k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 24, 2025 to Jul 24, 2025: about 119 more stars than usual, peak 198 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 29, 2025 to Jul 30, 2025: about 181 more stars than usual, peak 191 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Aug 2, 2025 to Aug 8, 2025: about 1.5k more stars than usual, peak 586 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Aug 17, 2025 to Aug 22, 2025: about 2.5k more stars than usual, peak 990 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 13, 2025 to Sep 17, 2025: about 1.3k more stars than usual, peak 499 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 28, 2025 to Sep 30, 2025: about 590 more stars than usual, peak 420 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Feb 2, 2026 to Feb 3, 2026: about 159 more stars than usual, peak 172 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Feb 28, 2026 to Mar 5, 2026: about 590 more stars than usual, peak 243 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- May 10, 2026 to May 14, 2026: about 2.2k more stars than usual, peak 787 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- May 23, 2026 to May 25, 2026: about 349 more stars than usual, peak 244 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Jun 26, 2026 to Jun 28, 2026: about 170 more stars than usual, peak 145 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Aug 7, 2026 to Aug 11, 2026: about 1.4k more stars than usual, peak 563 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 22, 2026 to Aug 24, 2026: about 303 more stars than usual, peak 223 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- 12 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.
- Some star bursts have no matching forks, issues, releases, or launch coverage.
- Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
Packages
No published packages found.
Sources: GitHub: rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch
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- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
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