Model training tools and resources
Tools and guides for training or fine-tuning AI models on your own data. This page lists 13 model training tools and resources; the latest additions are cs-video-courses, nanochat and AirLLM. Open any project to see what it lets you do, what its creator says you need and its original source.
Projects to explore
- ai-agent-book Learn how AI agents work from a free book with 109 experiments
A complete book on building AI agents, published free and in the open by Bojie Li, organised around one formula: an agent is a language model plus context plus tools.
- cs-video-courses Find university computer science video lectures
Find college-level computer science courses with video lectures, sorted by topic.
- train-llm-from-scratch Build and train your own small language model from scratch
This is a hands-on tutorial that walks through building a language model entirely from scratch in PyTorch, with no shortcuts through libraries like transformers, trl or peft that normally do the heavy lifting.
- Higgsfield Train huge AI models across many machines without the usual pain
Higgsfield is an open-source framework for training very large neural networks — the kind with billions to trillions of parameters, such as large language models — across many computers at once, a process the project's own documentation describes as normally involving a lot of manual, error-prone setup ("multi node training without crying").
- Transformers Load and run almost any open AI model from one Python library
The Python library that defines how open models are written down, covering text, images, audio, video and combinations of them, for both running a model and training one.
- nanochat Train a small GPT-2 level chatbot and talk to it
Train your own small chatbot from scratch on a GPU server, then chat with it in the terminal.
- AirLLM Run very large language models on a small GPU
Load a big open language model from Hugging Face and generate text on a GPU with only a few GB of memory.
- ai-engineering-from-scratch A 542-lesson free course that teaches AI engineering by building
Learn to build AI systems yourself, from the math behind models to retrieval pipelines and agents, by writing and running real code.
- Laya Turn support tickets into clear decisions
A small model built to make decisions rather than write text.
- MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B A smaller 9B agent model distilled from a larger Xiaomi model
MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B is a 9-billion-parameter model made by fine-tuning Qwen3.5-9B on data generated by Xiaomi's larger MiMo-V2.6 models, a technique called distillation where a smaller model is trained to imitate a bigger one's outputs rather than being trained on raw internet text from scratch.
- MiMo-V2.6-Flash-RL Use Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6's efficiency-balanced model for agent work
Give one model text, images, video or audio, with up to a million tokens of context such as a whole code repository or a long tool log, and get text back for coding and agent work.
- MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL A large model trained on coding, agents, vision and security tasks at once
MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL is Xiaomi's flagship model in the MiMo-V2.6 family, reading and generating text, images, video and audio in one model with a 1-million-token context for handling large codebases or long multi-session agent work.
- microduck-simulator Drive a real trained robot's walking policy in your browser
Control already-trained reinforcement-learning policies for Pollen Robotics' Microduck robot entirely client-side: physics run through MuJoCo compiled to WebAssembly and the policy network runs via onnxruntime-web, with no server involved.
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