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Build a Large Language Model From Scratch is a technical, project-based guide to the foundations of generative language models. Written by Sebastian Raschka, it uses Python and PyTorch to lead readers through the construction of a compact GPT-style model rather than treating modern AI systems as services accessed only through an API. The book belongs to the practical machine learning literature, but its central purpose is explanatory: implementation is used to expose the operations behind token prediction, text generation, training, and adaptation. Its progression moves from preparing text data and representing tokens numerically to coding self-attention, assembling transformer blocks, pretraining a model, and fine-tuning it for classification and instruction following. The resulting model is educational in scale, not a recipe for reproducing frontier systems. That distinction matters because the book concentrates on transferable mechanisms and engineering choices. Readers see how components interact, where training objectives enter the pipeline, and why a generated response depends on data, architecture, learned weights, and decoding procedures.