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[iusztinpaul]

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[MaruthiKo]

Hi Paul

Can we learn LangChain without using the OpenAI API for free of cost?

I have tried several ways of downloading using open-source LLM models but as I'm not having any GPUs they work very very slow.
I am a student and it's hard to afford a GPU.
Any suggestions on how to learn langchain for free of cost?

[iusztinpaul]

Hello,

Try to use a tiny model that runs fast on your CPU.

The results won't be great, but you can play with the Langchain ecosystem for free.

[MaruthiKo]

okay thank you :)

[gregorywmorris]

@MaruthiKo you can access a free GPU with Google colab. It is limited in that it may time out on you for long-running processes. But for learning it's great.

There is also a way to run a script in the browser that may prevent it from timing out if inclined to research that. It simply selects something on the page every 30 seconds.