Running Ollama in Colab (Free Tier) - Step by Step Tutorial

Abonia Sojasingarayar · Intermediate ·🧠 Large Language Models ·1y ago

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Runs Ollama in Google Colab's free tier for leveraging powerful large language models like Llama2 and Llama3

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Ollama empowers you to leverage powerful large language models (LLMs) like Llama2,Llama3,Phi3 etc. without needing a powerful local machine. Google Colab’s free tier provides a cloud environment perfectly suited for running these resource-intensive models. This tutorial details setting up and running Ollama on the free version of Google Colab, allowing you to explore the capabilities of LLMs without significant upfront costs. ⭐️ Contents ⭐️ 0:00 Why run Ollama in, Google Colab 4:17 How to run Ollama in colab 📌 Notebook : https://gist.github.com/Abonia1/48ea45c147d15621b3f4dcc6a6ca2a2f ___________________________________________________________________________ 🔔 Get our Newsletter and Featured Articles: https://abonia1.github.io/newsletter/ 🔗 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aboniasojasingarayar/ 🔗 Find me on Github : https://github.com/Abonia1 🔗 Medium Articles: https://medium.com/@abonia #Localllm #Ollama #Colab #LLM #genAI
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