Fine-Tune SLMs for Free: From Google Colab to Ollama in 7 Steps

In this article, I’ll walk through a practical pipeline that:

• Fine-tunes a popular open-source base small language model on your own data using Unsloth on Google Colab (free T4 GPU)
• Exports the result to GGUF via llama.cpp
• Deploys it to Ollama so that you can run ollama pull my-model from anywhere and even push it to the Ollama registry.

We’ll put this into practice by creating a real-world example: a “multi-agent orchestrator,” built step-by-step in seven concrete steps. 

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