[HN Gopher] Unsloth Studio
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Unsloth Studio
Author : brainless
Score : 100 points
Date : 2026-03-17 15:26 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| jawerty wrote:
| Excited to use this been using unsloth models for the past couple
| years
| danielhanchen wrote:
| Thank you for your continued support - we have much more
| planned for it!
| meowokIknewit wrote:
| The GUI for the fine tuning looks interesting. Hopefully this
| leads to a lot of new custom models
| danielhanchen wrote:
| Thank you! We're still iterating on it so any suggestions are
| welcome!
| saberience wrote:
| Who's the intended user for this?
|
| Is it like, for AI hobbyists? I.e. I have a 4090 at home and want
| to fine-tune models?
|
| Is it a competitor to LMStudio?
| mlnj wrote:
| I am unaware lm studio is being used for fine tuning. I believe
| it only does inference.
|
| Happy to see unsloth making it even easier for people like me
| to get going with fine tuning. Not that I am unable to I'm just
| lazy.
|
| Fine tuning with a UI is definitely targeted towards hobbyists.
| Sadly I'll have to wait for AMD ROCm support.
| danielhanchen wrote:
| Thanks! We do have normal AMD support for Unsloth but yes the
| UI doesn't support it just yet! Will keep you posted!
| lastdong wrote:
| From the homepage looks like it: "Training: Works on NVIDIA
| GPUs: RTX 30, 40, 50, Blackwell, DGX Spark/Station etc."
| huydotnet wrote:
| you just answered your own question, "AI hobbyists who has 4090
| at home". And they are pretty much targeted user of Unsloth
| since the start.
| danielhanchen wrote:
| Actually the opposite haha- more than 50% of our audience
| comes from large organizations eg Meta, NASA, the UN,
| Walmart, Spotify, AWS, Google, and the list goes on!
| danielhanchen wrote:
| You would be surprised! Nearly every Fortune 500 company has
| utilized either our RL fine-tuning package or used our quants
| and models - the UI was primarily a culmination of pain points
| folks had when doing either training or inference!
|
| We're complimentary to LM Studio - they have a great tool as
| well!
| trvz wrote:
| Installing with pip on macOS is just not an acceptable option.
| It'll mess up your system just like npm or gem.
|
| This needs to go on homebrew or be a zip file with an app for
| manual download.
| DIVx0 wrote:
| Agree with you, a slightly more maintainable way to use it now
| is with "uv" or mise. i've used `uv tool install unsloth` for
| this one.
| danielhanchen wrote:
| Yep - uv is a better fit - and you get parallel downloads as
| well
| Computer0 wrote:
| On my linux systems I use venv to not affect system packages,
| is that not an option for this situation?
| beernet wrote:
| Agreed, feels like a vibe-coded frontend based on already given
| backend features.
|
| Also, never saw any Unsloth related software in production to
| this day. Feels strongly like a non-essential tool for hobby
| LLM wizards.
| danielhanchen wrote:
| You would be surprised - we're the 4th largest independent
| distributor of LLMs in the world - and nearly every Fortune
| 500 company has utilized either our RL fine-tuning package or
| used our quants and models - we for example collab directly
| with large labs to release models with bug fixes.
| airspresso wrote:
| Unsloth is providing the best and most reliable libraries for
| finetuning LLMs. We've used it for production use-cases where
| I work, definitely solid.
| bityard wrote:
| I recommend installing uv first, then you can install any
| Python code you want inside a virtual environment to keep it
| isolated from the rest of the system.
| danielhanchen wrote:
| Yep uv pip install unsloth works as well - we probably should
| have just made that the default - in fact Unsloth makes its
| own venv using UV if you have it dynamically
| gessha wrote:
| I know the whole package system across most languages is a
| dumpster fire but for Python, uv solves a lot of problems.
|
| uv init
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| uv add unsloth
|
| uv run main.py % or whatever
| danielhanchen wrote:
| Yep UV is fantastic - should have just that default!
| danielhanchen wrote:
| Hey we're still working on making installation much better -
| appreciate the feedback!
|
| We come from Python land mainly so packaging and distribution
| is all very new to us - homebrew will definitely be next!
| zokier wrote:
| What is unsloths business/income? They seem to be publishing lot
| of stuff for free, with no clear product to back them?
| car wrote:
| Can Unsloth Studio use already downloaded models?
| car wrote:
| Tried to build from source on MacOS, but got this error:
| (base) unsloth git:(main) unsloth studio setup
| +--------------------------------------+ | Unsloth
| Studio Setup Script |
| +--------------------------------------+ Node v25.8.1 and
| npm 11.11.0 already meet requirements. Skipping nvm install.
| Node v25.8.1 | npm 11.11.0 npm run build failed (exit code
| 2): > unsloth-theme@0.0.0 build > tsc -b && vite
| build src/features/chat/shared-composer.tsx(366,17):
| error TS6133: 'status' is declared but its value is never read.
| danielhanchen wrote:
| Hey will check ASAP and fix - sorry about that
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