nearchon AI Lab · free for everyone

Learn how AI works by building it

AI can look at a photo and talk about it. Here you build one yourself, from zero, in a virtual lab: our cat teacher explains one small idea, you build that part with your own hands, and at the end you train your own tiny model and talk to it.

AIVirtual lab · 13 lessons

Build an AI that can see and talk

How do apps like ChatGPT understand a photo? Build one yourself, part by part, starting from zero: turn pictures and words into numbers, make a neuron learn, add attention, give it eyes, then train your own tiny model in the browser and ask it questions.

  • Pixels and tokens
  • A learning neuron
  • Attention
  • A vision encoder
  • Your own trained model
Lessons
13
Time
~45 min
Level
From zero
Start building

The ideas follow the real research behind vision language models: the Vision Transformer, CLIP and LLaVA, retold in simple words. The model you train runs in your own browser.