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picoGPT vs ollama

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picoGPT

jaymody/picoGPT

3.5kpushed Apr 24, 2023
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ollama

ollama/ollama

176kpushed Jul 7, 2026
picoGPTollama
TaglineAn unnecessarily tiny implementation of GPT-2 in NumPyGet up and running with Kimi-K2.6, GLM-5.1, MiniMax, DeepSeek, gpt-oss, Qwen, Gemma and other models.
Stars3.5k176k
Forks45917k
Open issues143.4k
LanguagePythonGo
LicenseMITMIT
Last pushedApr 24, 2023Jul 7, 2026
CategoriesLLM FrameworksAI Agents, LLM Frameworks

Choose picoGPT if…

  • Leaner open-issue backlog (14).

Choose ollama if…

  • More widely adopted - 176k stars vs 3.5k.
  • More recently updated (last pushed Jul 7, 2026).
  • Also covers AI Agents.

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