Technical requirements

To complete the tasks in this chapter, you will need the following:

• A Hugging Face account and user access token.
• Python 3.7.1 or later version.
• Python packages: Make sure to have the following Python packages installed: python-dotenv, huggingface_hub, accelerate>=0.16.0, <1 transformers[torch], safetensors, tensorflow, datasets, evaluate, and accelerate. Those can be easily installed via pip install in your terminal. If you want to install everything from the latest release, you can refer to the original GitHub by running pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git in your terminal.

You can find all the code and examples in the book’s GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Building-LLM-Powered-Applications.