about this book
Artificial intelligence is no longer confined to research labs; it’s becoming a tool that anyone can use to build intelligent, interactive real-world applications. This book is your gateway to the Hugging Face ecosystem, guiding you step by step from understanding pretrained models to creating fully functional AI applications. You’ll learn how to harness the power of transformers for NLP; explore computer vision models; fine-tune models on your own datasets; and even work with multimodal models that handle text, images, and more.
But this book goes beyond simply using models; it also shows you how to make AI work for you. You’ll discover how to build autonomous agents that can make decisions, interact with tools, and retrieve information; create web-based interfaces that allow others to experience your AI; run models locally for privacy and speed; and connect AI to the real world through protocols such as MCP.
With hands-on examples, practical projects, and clear explanations, this book equips you to move from experimentation to building intelligent end-to-end AI systems—applications that can learn, adapt, and interact in meaningful ways. By the end of this book, you won’t just understand Hugging Face; you’ll also have the skills to build AI-powered solutions that solve real problems, automate tasks, and engage users in entirely new ways.