---
title: "Hugging Face Releases a Free and Open Course on Fine Tuning Local LLMs"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/hugging-face-releases-a-free-and-open-course-on-fine-tuning-local-llms-bip5am2yz
source_url: https://www.marktechpost.com/2024/12/03/hugging-face-releases-a-free-and-open-course-on-fine-tuning-local-llms/
type: article
source: "Machine Learning News"
published: 2024-12-03T22:34:40.611Z
updated: 2024-12-08T21:29:43.887Z
tags: ["ai", "open-source", "github"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 28
comments: 1
language: en
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

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

**[Machine Learning News](https://daily.dev/sources/mlnews)** · 3 min read · 28 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

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.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://www.marktechpost.com/2024/12/03/hugging-face-releases-a-free-and-open-course-on-fine-tuning-local-llms/>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@radlad** · 0 upvotes

> article is mega short, and doesnt really tell you anything but it does link to the smol courses in github which look promising.

## Similar posts on daily.dev

- [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments
- [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments
- [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments
- [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments
- [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments

---

Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github)

[View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/hugging-face-releases-a-free-and-open-course-on-fine-tuning-local-llms-bip5am2yz)