Learners will gain the skills to serve powerful language models as practical and scalable web APIs. They will learn how to use the llama.cpp example server to expose a large language model through a set of REST API endpoints for tasks like text generation, tokenization, and embedding extraction.



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Learn how to serve large language models as production-ready web APIs using the llama.cpp framework
Understand the architecture and capabilities of the llama.cpp example server for text generation, tokenization, and embedding extraction
Gain hands-on experience in configuring and customizing the server using command line options and API parameters
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This week, you run language models locally. Keep data private. Avoid latency and fees. Use Mixtral model and llamafile.
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8 videos19 readings4 assignments1 discussion prompt4 ungraded labs
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