Andrej Karpathy posts Intro to Large Language Models on YouTube

Intro to Large Language Models posted on YouTube — in the LLM OS section, presented an operating-system analogy that places the LLM as the kernel and tools, the file system and multimodal I/O as peripherals

Why it matters

Spread the frame of seeing the LLM not as a model but as an OS kernel, which became the shared metaphor for later discussions of agents, tool calling and context management

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