Explore the behind-the-scenes process of building and training large code models like StarCoder in this keynote presentation. Delve into the remarkable abilities of large language models trained on code for code completion and synthesis from natural language descriptions. Learn about the development of StarCoder, a robust 15B Code Generation model trained across 80+ programming languages, while incorporating responsible AI practices. Discover how to leverage these models using open-source libraries such as transformers and PEFT, and gain insights into efficient deployment strategies. Gain valuable knowledge about the pre-training and fine-tuning techniques used in code generation models, presented by Loubna Ben-Allal, a Machine Learning Engineer from Hugging Face.