jingyaogong/minimind: Train a 64M-Parameter GPT From Scratch in 2 Hours — 43,691 Stars

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Minimind continues to trend at +478 stars/day (43.7K total), offering a complete educational pipeline to train a small GPT model from scratch in just 2 hours on consumer hardware. The project's sustained virality signals strong demand for hands-on LLM education — understanding transformer architecture by building one, not just using API wrappers.