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ModelScope Cookbook

A practical guide to building with open models.

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  • Rating

    4.5 / 5

  • Pricing

    Free

  • Difficulty

    Intermediate

  • Works on

    Web

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What is ModelScope Cookbook?

The ModelScope Cookbook is an open, developer-facing guide to applying open models in practice, covering model selection, inference, fine-tuning, evaluation, RAG, agents and AIGC — from running your first model to shipping a real application.

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Pros: what ModelScope Cookbook does well

  • Covers the whole model lifecycle
  • Hands-on, example-driven
  • Completely free

Cons: where it falls short

  • Mostly written in Chinese
  • Focused on the ModelScope ecosystem

Who ModelScope Cookbook is for

Developers learning to build real applications on open models.

Who can skip it

People only using hosted AI chat products.

ModelScope Cookbook alternatives

Not sold on ModelScope Cookbook? These do a similar job, and each card says what it has in common.

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LLM Course

Focus: course, roadmap and colab. Shares llm and fine-tuning with ModelScope Cookbook. Rated 4.8 (ModelScope Cookbook: 4.5).

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Train LLM From Scratch

Focus: training, machine learning and tutorial. Shares llm with ModelScope Cookbook. Rated 4.7 (ModelScope Cookbook: 4.5).

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nanoGPT

Focus: gpt, training and karpathy. Shares llm with ModelScope Cookbook. A framework, not a course. Adds macOS, Windows and Linux. Rated 4.8 (ModelScope Cookbook: 4.5).

FrameworkFreemacOS, Windows
4.8Visit

Prompt Engineering Guide

Focus: prompt engineering, context engineering and ai agents. Shares rag and llm with ModelScope Cookbook. Rated 4.8 (ModelScope Cookbook: 4.5).

CourseFreeWeb
4.8Visit

Awesome LLM

Focus: awesome list, papers and ai. Shares llm with ModelScope Cookbook. A website, not a course. Rated 4.7 (ModelScope Cookbook: 4.5).

WebsiteFreeWeb
4.7Visit

Free alternatives to ModelScope Cookbook

Want to spend nothing? These free picks cover similar ground.

Hugging Face Learn

Focus: hugging face, course and free. Shares llm and agents with ModelScope Cookbook. Rated 4.7 (ModelScope Cookbook: 4.5).

CourseFreeWeb
4.7Visit

Awesome AI Governance

Focus: ai governance, safety and compliance. Shares agents with ModelScope Cookbook. A website, not a course. Rated 4.4 (ModelScope Cookbook: 4.5).

WebsiteFreeWeb
4.4Visit

SztuCode

Focus: office ai, universities and local-first. Shares agents with ModelScope Cookbook. An AI tool, not a course. Rated 4.3 (ModelScope Cookbook: 4.5).

AI ToolFreeCross-Platform
4.3Visit

Dive into Deep Learning

Focus: deep learning, book and course. Also in Learning and Research, like ModelScope Cookbook. Rated 4.9 (ModelScope Cookbook: 4.5).

CourseFreeWeb
4.9Visit

Agentic Design Patterns

Focus: ai agents, design patterns and multi-agent. Shares llm and rag with ModelScope Cookbook. A book, not a course. Adds Offline. Rated 4.8 (ModelScope Cookbook: 4.5).

BookFreeOffline, Web
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