Top videos
The most-watched talks, lectures and explainers in Awesome Large Language Models, ranked by how many people watched them and how strongly they responded. Every video links out to YouTube.
Recent and gaining
Published in the last year, ranked by views per day rather than total views — so something three weeks old can outrank something three years old.
1:36:30
11:04Rank 2: 7 AI Terms You Need to Know: Agents, RAG, ASI & More
IBM Technologyknown publisher
12:25Rank 3: What AI Agent Skills Are and How They Work
IBM Technologyknown publisher
11:15Rank 4: How KV Cache Speeds Up LLMs for Faster AI Models on GPUs
IBM Technologyknown publisher
2:52:10
17:50
11:35Rank 7: What is OpenClaw? Inside AI Agents, LLMs and the Agentic Loop
IBM Technologyknown publisher
56:40
10:01Rank 9: RAG vs Agentic AI: How LLMs Connect Data for Smarter AI
IBM Technologyknown publisher
8:38Rank 10: What Are Large Reasoning Models (LRMs)? Smarter AI Beyond LLMs
IBM Technologyknown publisher
15:25
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All-time
Ranked on total reach, how strongly viewers responded, and whether the channel is one this collection already trusts. Deliberately not age-adjusted: a lecture that has been the best explanation of its topic for years belongs at the top.
27:14Rank 1: Transformers, the tech behind LLMs | Deep Learning Chapter 5
3Blue1Brownknown publisher
3:31:24Rank 2: Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT
Andrej Karpathyknown publisher
7:58Rank 3: Large Language Models explained briefly
3Blue1Brownknown publisher
1:56:20Rank 4: Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out.
Andrej Karpathyknown publisher
26:10Rank 5: Attention in transformers, step-by-step | Deep Learning Chapter 6
3Blue1Brownknown publisher
59:48Rank 6: [1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language Models
Andrej Karpathyknown publisher
10:01Rank 7: AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Generative AI Explained
IBM Technologyknown publisher
37:20Rank 8: But how do AI images and videos actually work? | Guest video by Welch Labs
3Blue1Brownknown publisher
6:36Rank 9: What is Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)?
IBM Technologyknown publisher
10:09
5:34Rank 11: How Large Language Models Work
IBM Technologyknown publisher
- 11:04
Rank 12: 7 AI Terms You Need to Know: Agents, RAG, ASI & More
IBM Technologyknown publisher
7:19Rank 13: Generative vs Agentic AI: Shaping the Future of AI Collaboration
IBM Technologyknown publisher
- 17:50
- 2:52:10
15:46Rank 16: Introduction to large language models
Google Cloud Techknown publisher
5:51Rank 17: What are Transformers (Machine Learning Model)?
IBM Technologyknown publisher
2:33:11
46:02
57:45- 1:36:30
- 56:40
- 12:25
Rank 23: What AI Agent Skills Are and How They Work
IBM Technologyknown publisher
10:10
12:10Rank 25: Optimize Your AI - Quantization Explained
Matt Williams
- 11:35
Rank 26: What is OpenClaw? Inside AI Agents, LLMs and the Agentic Loop
IBM Technologyknown publisher
28:18
25:20
6:52
35:45
4:17Rank 31: LLM Explained | What is LLM
codebasics
- 15:25
- 10:01
Rank 33: RAG vs Agentic AI: How LLMs Connect Data for Smarter AI
IBM Technologyknown publisher
- 8:38
Rank 34: What Are Large Reasoning Models (LRMs)? Smarter AI Beyond LLMs
IBM Technologyknown publisher
- 10:58
5:30Rank 36: What are Large Language Models (LLMs)?
Google for Developers
9:48Rank 37: What Are Vision Language Models? How AI Sees & Understands Images
IBM Technologyknown publisher
- 11:15
Rank 38: How KV Cache Speeds Up LLMs for Faster AI Models on GPUs
IBM Technologyknown publisher
6:57Rank 39: How to Choose Large Language Models: A Developer’s Guide to LLMs
IBM Technologyknown publisher
12:11Rank 40: AI vs Human Thinking: How Large Language Models Really Work
IBM Technologyknown publisher
View and like counts come from the YouTube Data API and are refreshed weekly. Every count here was last checked on or after 9 Aug 2026. Ranking is described on the methodology page.