Track 4: Working With LLM APIs
Open Models in Practice: Hugging Face, Ollama, llama.cpp & vLLM
9 lessons
Track 4: Working With LLM APIs, Open and Local Models
Hugging Face for Beginners: Hub, Pipelines, Inference Providers
Run a Hub model locally and via a hosted API.
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Course
Open Models in Practice: Hugging Face, Ollama, llama.cpp & vLLM
Udemy: coming soon
Tools
- Hugging Face Hub (freemium)
- Hugging Face Transformers (open-source, free)
Watch first
- Open-Weight Models Explained: Llama, Qwen, Gemma, Mistral, DeepSeek
- Colab Basics: Notebooks, Runtimes, Files, Sharing
Then try
In this module
- Open-Weight Models Explained: Llama, Qwen, Gemma, Mistral, DeepSeek
- Run AI Locally With Ollama (and LM Studio)
- Hugging Face for Beginners: Hub, Pipelines, Inference Providers
- llama.cpp, GGUF and How Big a Model You Can Run
- Serve Models at Scale: vLLM (and SGLang, TGI)
The course this lesson belongs to