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In this liveProject, you’ll take on the role of a full-stack developer working for a school district. Your district wants to further student learning by developing its own custom large language model (LLM) to assist students, parents, and teachers. Your goal is to develop an MVP of this by creating a chatbot that can answer chemistry questions and provide follow-up answers and conversations. You’ll utilize the open source Llama LLM from Meta AI to do this. Your model will need to run with very low resources—it needs to work on the school’s outdated computers—and be equipped with an intuitive user interface. Let’s get started!
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