- How is this different from ChatGPT or Claude?
- Those are general assistants you rent through someone else's servers. Langtrain gives you your own: an open-source model fine-tuned on your data, with weights you keep and can run on your own hardware, including fully offline.
- Can it really run offline?
- Yes. Train with Langtune on your own GPU, or push a cloud run's weights to your own Hugging Face repo. Then convert the weights with llama.cpp and run the model on a laptop or server with no internet connection.
- Which models can I start from?
- Open models such as Llama, Qwen, Mistral and Phi. The model hub lists every base model you can fine-tune.
- Do I need ML expertise?
- Not to start. The SDK can look at your dataset and suggest a model and training setup, and the defaults work for most runs. You will need to run Python on a machine with an NVIDIA GPU, or train on ours.
- What data format should I use?
- JSONL, CSV or a Hugging Face dataset. The recommended format is JSONL with a messages array per line, the same chat format shown above.
- How much data do I need?
- Quality matters more than quantity. 50–100 examples adapt style and tone, 500–1,000 are recommended for a specific task, and 10,000+ build domain expertise.
- How long does training take?
- It depends on the model size, how much data you have and the GPU. Every run streams its progress, so you can see how far along it is.
- Is my data private?
- If you train with Langtune on your own GPU, your data never leaves your machine. For cloud runs, the dataset is uploaded to Langtrain so it can be trained on; the privacy policy explains how it is stored and handled.
- Can I export and self-host my model?
- Yes. Train locally with Langtune and the weights are on your disk, or push a cloud run's merged weights to your own Hugging Face repo. They are standard weights, so llama.cpp, vLLM and other open-source tools can run them.