Generative Ai For Beginners

A comprehensive 21-lesson course designed to teach beginners how to build generative AI applications. Created by Microsoft, this curriculum covers a wide range of topics including introduction to generative AI, exploring large language models (LLMs), prompt engineering, text generation, building chat applications, search applications, image generation, low-code AI, function calling, UX design, security, the generative AI application lifecycle, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), open-source models, AI agents, fine-tuning, small language models (SLMs), and specific model families like Mistral and Meta. Each lesson includes Jupyter Notebooks for hands-on practice. The course supports over 50 languages, making it accessible globally. Licensed under MIT, the repository has gained over 113,000 stars on GitHub.