Learnings from the course - AI Engineer Path(Scrimba) - Part 3 - Open Source Models
July 4, 2026
Notes
- LLM’s are built on Transformers
- Until GPT 2, OpenAI was open source.
- Meta launched LLama
- An AI Engineer should know to use both Open Source and Closed Source models.
Hugging Face Models
You will need a token with read access to run inference on the models.
Model used - facebook/bart-large-cnn 🔗
The syntax to run is given under code snippets(too much detail, look around) on the link above. This will help you run it quickly.
import { InferenceClient } from "@huggingface/inference";
const client = new InferenceClient(process.env.HF_TOKEN);
export async function chatCompletion() {
const response = await client.chatCompletion({
messages: [
{
role: "system",
content: "Respond like you are William Shakespeare",
},
{
role: "user",
content: "Tell me a fun fact about the internet",
},
],
model: "katanemo/Arch-Router-1.5B:hf-inference",
});
Note: Role “system” gives personality and doesn’t mix-up with the user prompt.
Running AI models in the Browser
This can be achieved by using Transformer.js from HF
I was surprised to see how ‘Xenovo Transformers’ was easily accessible without ‘npm i @huggingface/transformers’. npm step was mentioned on the HF website.
Note - Lesson learned, there are literally CDN for a lot of npm packages.
import { pipeline } from "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@xenova/transformers@2.8.0";
// Create a new object detection pipeline
const detector = await pipeline("object-detection", "Xenova/yolos-tiny");
Running your Own Model
- This can be done by installing Ollama model on the MAC.
- The model could be run locally by doing ‘npm run’
- The browser is run and can be run through query params.