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| 2 | 2.91 | 0.74504 | 0.2578 | d26 slightly undertrained **+fp8** | Feb 2 2026 | a67eba3 | @karpathy |
| 3 | 2.76 | 0.74645 | 0.2602 | bump total batch size to 1M tokens | Feb 5 2026 | 2c062aa | @karpathy |
| 4 | 2.02 | 0.71854 | 0.2571 | change dataset to NVIDIA ClimbMix | Mar 4 2026 | 324e69c | @ddudek @karpathy |
| 5 | 1.80 | 0.71808 | 0.2690 | autoresearch [round 1](https://x.com/karpathy/status/2031135152349524125) | Mar 9 2026 | 6ed7d1d | @karpathy |
The primary metric we care about is "time to GPT-2" - the wall clock time needed to outperform the GPT-2 (1.6B) CORE metric on an 8XH100 GPU node. The GPT-2 CORE score is 0.256525. In 2019, the training of GPT-2 cost approximately $43,000 so it is incredible that due to many advances over 7 years across the stack, we can now do so much faster and for well below $100 (e.g. at the current ~$3/GPU/hr, an 8XH100 node is ~$24/hr, so 2 hours is ~$48).