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Official code repo for the O'Reilly Book - "Hands-On Large Language Models"
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Ollama has the larger GitHub footprint with 171.2K stars.
Ollama is currently growing faster at +450 stars this week.
Ollama has the stronger health score at 95/100.
| Signal | Hands On Large Language Models | Ollama |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 26.2K | 171.2K |
| Weekly growth | 0 | +450 |
| Health score | 32 | 95 |
| Contributors | 12 | 600 |
| Commits per week | 0.1 | 24.5 |
| Open issues | 35 | 3.2K |
| Language | Jupyter Notebook | Go |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Last commit | 18d ago | 15h ago |
| Last release | N/A | v0.23.2 |
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