From the course: AI Toolkit Essentials for Visual Studio Code

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Overview of the catalogs

Overview of the catalogs

- [Instructor] One of the primary parts of the AI toolkit you'll likely use as a catalog, the catalog allows us to use models from a variety of sources, some we'll be interacting with in the cloud and some we can download and use directly on our own machine. In many ways, the model catalog is the heart of the AI toolkit, is going to allow us to explore models from various publishers and hosting sources. A hosted model is one that does not run locally. Some commercial and some we can use for free. For example, models hosted in GitHub can be used by us and we don't need them to be running on our machine. There are also several other sources that are hosting their own models. These include models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Some of these acquired a paid account to fully use. We can also use models from a variety of other sources. For example, we can run models locally using Hugging Face models in the Onyx format or Llama models. This is why we installed Llama as part of our basic…

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