250+ notebooks that turn Colab into a fine-tuning factory
Unsloth's notebook repo is a curated cookbook for fine-tuning and RL on everything from Llama to TTS models—one click, zero setup.

What it does This is a massive index of Google Colab notebooks maintained by the Unsloth team. Each notebook bundles data preparation, training, and inference for a specific model—no local GPU setup required. The collection spans text, vision, audio, embeddings, and text-to-speech, with a heavy emphasis on recent open-weight models like Gemma 4, Qwen3.5, and gpt-oss 20B.
The interesting bit
The README is auto-generated by a script (update_all_notebooks.py), which suggests the team treats this as a living distribution channel rather than a static gallery. The GRPO and reinforcement-learning notebooks are the less obvious gems—Sudoku solvers, 2048 game training, auto kernel creation—tasks that go well beyond standard instruction tuning.
Key highlights
- One-click Colab badges for every notebook; runs locally or in cloud
- Covers modalities often ignored by fine-tuning guides: audio (Gemma3N, Gemma4), TTS (Orpheus), embeddings (Qwen3-Embedding, EmbeddingGemma)
- GRPO/RL section includes game-playing and math reasoning environments, not just chat tuning
- Includes Unsloth Studio, a chat UI notebook for quick inference
- Docs link out to a broader fine-tuning guide for context
Caveats
- The repo is essentially a link farm; all compute happens in Colab or your own hardware
- README warns against manual editing of the notebook table—automation is tight, human curation less visible
- No stated compatibility matrix for Colab free tier vs. paid; some 20B+ models likely need Pro
Verdict Great if you want to experiment with modern fine-tuning and RL without wrestling with dependencies. Skip it if you need a library or framework—this is documentation and recipes, not code you import.
Frequently asked
- What is unslothai/notebooks?
- Unsloth's notebook repo is a curated cookbook for fine-tuning and RL on everything from Llama to TTS models—one click, zero setup.
- Is notebooks open source?
- Yes — unslothai/notebooks is open source, released under the LGPL-3.0 license.
- What language is notebooks written in?
- unslothai/notebooks is primarily written in Jupyter Notebook.
- How popular is notebooks?
- unslothai/notebooks has 5.5k stars on GitHub.
- Where can I find notebooks?
- unslothai/notebooks is on GitHub at https://github.com/unslothai/notebooks.