The 'Illustrated LLM Book' repo is free: 12 chapters of runnable Colab notebooks
mdancho84 · x · 2026-11-03
The official code repo for Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst's O'Reilly book Hands-On Large Language Models ("The Illustrated LLM Book") is open on GitHub with 30k stars. All 12 chapters come with runnable Colab notebooks:
- Foundations: intro to language models, tokens & embeddings, looking inside Transformers
- Applications: text classification, clustering & topic modeling, prompt engineering, advanced text generation
- Advanced: semantic search & RAG, multimodal LLMs, creating embedding models, fine-tuning representation and generation models
The repo includes environment.yml and requirements files for local setup — a free visual masterclass in LLMs.
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