I built the most expensive CPU ever! (Every instruction is a prompt) @YannicKilcher
I built the most expensive CPU ever! (Every instruction is a prompt)  @YannicKilcher
Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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I have built the most expensive CPU ever by compiling arbitrary C code to LLVM intermediate representation (LLVM-IR), then sending every single instruction to OpenAI's GPT API.
A true marvel of engineering.

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0:55 - Sponsor Time
2:20 - FizzBuzz
4:05 - Computers 101
6:30 - Building a CPU on top of a large language model
7:40 - Compilers & LLVM
10:05 - From parsers to virtual machines
12:10 - GPTVM - A VM powered by GPT
15:55 - Snek!
18:40 - Going beyond AGI - Introducing Chad GPT VM


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