The ETA for the last chapter is August if things continue to go well. It's usually available in the MEAP a few weeks after that, some time in September. And print version should be available early 2025 I think.
Unfortunately, I am not aware of any other resource that delves into these topics. However, as others commented above, Karpathy has a 2h YouTube video that is probably worthwhile watching. Based on skimming the YT video, it has some overlap with chapters 3 & 4, but the book has a much larger scope.
I am not sure how to link to other comments on HN, so let me just copy & paste it here:
> How does this compare to the karpathy video [0]? I'm trying to get into LLMs and am trying to figure out what the best resource to get that level of understanding would be.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY
> Haven't fully watched this but from a brief skimming, here are some differences that the book has:
- it implements a real word-level LLM instead of a character-level LLM
- after pretraining also shows how to load pretrained weights
- instruction-finetune that LLM after pretraining
- code the alignment process for the instruction-finetuned LLM
- also show how to finetune the LLM for classification tasks
- the book it overall has a lots of figures. For Chapter 3, there are 26 figures alone :)
The video looks awesome though. I think it's probably a great complementary resource to get a good solid intro because it's just 2 hours. I think reading the book will probably be more like 10 times that time investment.
Do you have an ETA for the completion of the book?