Hugging Face Releases a Free and Open Course on Fine Tuning Local LLMs

Hugging Face has launched a free and open course named the 'Smöl Course' to make AI education more accessible. The course, based on the SmolLM2 models, guides learners through building, training, and fine-tuning machine learning models using open-source tools and real datasets. Available on GitHub, it includes step-by-step instructions and practical code examples. This initiative emphasizes accessibility, collaboration, and practical applications, aiming to lower barriers to AI education for learners of all backgrounds.