Free Course: Build a DeepSeek-style Model from Scratch
An author released a free 16-hour YouTube course that step-by-step explains how to build an AI model in the style of DeepSeek from scratch, covering Attention architectures and MoE.
Build a DeepSeek-style Model from Scratch
An author has published a free 16-hour course on YouTube, where they break down the process of building a Large Language Model (LLM) from scratch step by step. The material covers everything from theoretical foundations and scientific paper analysis to writing full functional code.
What's inside the course:
- Attention mechanism with a detailed and clear explanation
- Multi-Head Latent Attention
- Grouped Query Attention
- Positional Encodings
- Mixture of Experts (MoE)
- And many other architectural components
All you need to complete the course is a laptop and consistency.
Why it matters
AnalysisThis is a rare example of deep technical education that opens the 'black box' of modern LLMs, allowing developers to understand the DeepSeek architecture at the code level, not just through the API.
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