This video is a hands-on step-by-step tutorial with code to show you how to use hugging face inference API locally for free.

Code:

#pip install huggingface_hub

#export HF_TOKEN="<>"

from huggingface_hub import InferenceClient

import json

repo_id = "TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0"

llm_client = InferenceClient(

    model=repo_id,

    timeout=120,

)

def call_llm(inference_client: InferenceClient, prompt: str):

    response = inference_client.post(

        json={

            "inputs": prompt,

            "parameters": {"max_new_tokens": 200},

            "task": "text-generation",

        },

    )

    return json.loads(response.decode())[0]["generated_text"]

response=call_llm(llm_client, "write me a crazy joke")

print (response)