bootgpt

What is bootgpt

bootgpt is an open-source (MIT) tiny language model that fits in a 512-byte x86 boot sector and is built with Python. It generates boot logs for fictional hardware. It is a technical experiment with limited practical use.

How to use

1. Install the tools:brew install nasm qemu.
2. Create a Python environment with numpy:python3 -m venv .venv && .venv/bin/pip install numpy.
3. Build the boot image with./build.sh(generates the corpus, trains and quantizes the int8 model, assembles the MBR).
4. Run it in QEMU with./run.shand watch the model dream a Linux boot log.
5. Optionally dd disk.img to a USB stick and boot any BIOS machine;
6. any keypress reboots.

Use cases

• Exploring how a tiny int8 neural network can run in 16-bit real mode from a boot sector Learning boot sector, BIOS interrupt and x86 assembly programming A sizecoding/demoscene showcase that boots straight into a language model Studying integer-only quantized inference that matches Python output char for char

Price from official sources

Free

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Source: github.com · Info as of Nov 2, 2026

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