Building Intelligent LLM Workflows

Originally created for 2025 Openscapes HackHours

You can check the presentation here: LLM Tutorial Presentation

Boris Shapkin

What’s This About?

This is a beginner-friendly introduction to using Large Language Models (LLMs) with Python — perfect for researchers who want to understand how these models work and how to build useful tools with them.

The presentation covers:

• How LLMs are trained and what makes them powerful
• The difference between open-source and paid models
• How to run LLMs on your laptop using quantized models
• How to build chatbots using Python libraries like LangChain
• How to connect LLMs to tools, data, and Python code

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