Free Colab Notebooks for Local Model Fine-Tuning and Inference

Melvin Vivas · X post · 2026-09-25 · Open on X

Topics: Fine-tuning & Model Customization, LLM Fundamentals · Level: intermediate

Summary

The creator has added more AIBackends notebooks to his free GitHub repo. The notebooks cover fine-tuning and running local models, and they run in Google Colab.

Key points

• The donvito/notebooks repo has notebooks for fine-tuning and running local models.
• The notebooks are built to run in Google Colab, so you don't need your own GPU.
• New AIBackends notebooks were just added.

Resources mentioned

• donvito/notebooks · repo · github.com · free
  The creator's notebooks for fine-tuning and running local models, which you can run in Google Colab, including a GLiNER2.5-Decide intent classification example.
  Also in: Run Local Models on a Free GPU with Google Colab (T4) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Intent classification for support using GLiNER2.5-Decide notebook (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Getting started with GLiNER2.5-Decide in a Colab notebook (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Base vs fine-tuned Gemma 4 E2B as a model router (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 3 more
• Google Colab · tool · colab.research.google.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Free GPU notebooks.
  Also in: Run Notebooks on a Free GPU with Google Colab (T4, 15GB VRAM) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Run Local Models on a Free GPU with Google Colab (T4) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Intent classification for support using GLiNER2.5-Decide notebook (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Getting started with GLiNER2.5-Decide in a Colab notebook (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 12 more

Try this

• Open the donvito/notebooks repo and run the AIBackends notebooks in Google Colab.