How to Fine-Tune Llama 3 on Your Business Data with QLoRA

TL;DR Fine-tuning takes a general-purpose AI model like Llama 3 and trains it further on your business data. The result is a model that responds in your company’s voice, knows your products, and follows your rules — not a generic chatbot. What you need: 200-500 question/answer pairs from your business A GPU with 24GB VRAM (RTX 3090, ~$800 used) or a MacBook with 32GB 2-6 hours of training time QLoRA + Hugging Face tools (all free and open source) What you get: ...

February 22, 2026 · 7 min · Local AI Ops