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microGPT in C explores low-level optimizations

Published on May 3, 2026, the repository presents a dependency-free implementation of microGPT in plain C, using AVX2 intrinsics, fixed-width dot-product kernels, and a fast approximation of the exponential function.

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Source: microGPT implementado em C sem dependências (github.com). Text prepared with AI from this source.

What happened and what to do

On May 3, 2026, the repository presented a plain C implementation of Karpathy’s microGPT with no dependencies. The post says the code uses AVX2 intrinsics, fixed-width dot-product kernels, and a fast approximation of the exponential function; its aim is to make training and inference inspectable and enable exploration of low-level optimizations.

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