🤖 Best GitHub repositories to learn AI from scratch in 2026

If you want to understand AI not through "vacuum" courses, but through real open-source projects - here's a top list of repos that really lead you from the basics to practice:

1) Karpathy – Neural Networks: Zero to Hero 
The most understandable introduction to neural networks and backprop "in layman's terms"
https://github.com/karpathy/nn-zero-to-hero

2) Hugging Face Transformers 
The main library of modern NLP/LLM: models, tokenizers, fine-tuning 
https://github.com/huggingface/transformers

3) FastAI – Fastbook 
Practical DL training through projects and experiments 
https://github.com/fastai/fastbook

4) Made With ML 
ML as an engineering system: pipelines, production, deployment, monitoring 
https://github.com/GokuMohandas/Made-With-ML

5) Machine Learning System Design (Chip Huyen) 
How to build ML systems in real business: data, metrics, infrastructure 
https://github.com/chiphuyen/machine-learning-systems-design

6) Awesome Generative AI Guide 
A collection of materials on GenAI: from basics to practice 
https://github.com/aishwaryanr/awesome-generative-ai-guide

7) Dive into Deep Learning (D2L) 
One of the best books on DL + code + assignments 
https://github.com/d2l-ai/d2l-en

Save it for yourself - this is a base on which you can really grow into an ML/LLM engineer.

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