ARTICLEDEV.to AI·5/1/2026
I Rebuilt Karpathy's NanoChat in JAX. Here's What XLA Gets Right and What It Gets Dead Wrong.
This content describes porting Andrej Karpathy's NanoChat from PyTorch to JAX/Flax NNX, achieving fast training on a single GPU and TPU compatibility. It details XLA's advantages in eliminating Python overhead while highlighting its limitations regarding advanced features and debugging.
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