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Deep Dive into Large Language Models: Pretraining to RLHF

Founder of Eureka Labs & Former Director of AI at Tesla

3:31:23·2025·undergraduate level·Standalone Lecture

End-to-end engineering dissection of tokenization, distributed Transformer pretraining, supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning on chain-of-thought, and inference failure modes.

This is a general audience deep dive into the Large Language Model (LLM) AI technology that powers ChatGPT and related products. It is covers the full training stack of how the models are developed, along with mental models of how to think about their "psychology", and how to get the best use them in practical applications. I have one "Intro to LLMs" video already from ~year ago, but that is just a re-recording of a random talk, so I wanted to loop around and do a lot more comprehensive version.

Instructor

Andrej was a founding member at OpenAI (2015) and then Sr. Director of AI at Tesla (2017-2022), and is now a founder at Eureka Labs, which is building an AI-native school. His goal in this video is to raise knowledge and understanding of the state of the art in AI, and empower people to effectively use the latest and greatest in their work.

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