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AI Fundamentals

Understand AI, evaluate its limits, and use it responsibly.

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AI Engineer

Build, secure, and deploy AI applications through practical projects.

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Best forDevelopers, integration engineers, data professionals, and career changers building applied AI engineering skills

Career outcomesAI Engineer, Generative AI Engineer, LLM Application Engineer, AI Integration Engineer

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Beat IT AI Foundations

AI engineering foundations

Build the Python, data, API, and machine-learning foundation needed for applied AI work.

AI conceptsPythonDataAPIsMachine learning

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AI FundamentalsPlanned courseView course Python for AIPlanned courseView course Data & APIs for AIPlanned courseView course Machine Learning FundamentalsPlanned courseView course

Portfolio projectBuild a small Python AI service that accepts data, calls a model, validates output, and exposes an API.

02

Beat IT Generative AI portfolio

Generative AI applications

Build reliable LLM applications using prompting, retrieval, vector search, citations, and evaluation.

LLMsPromptingEmbeddingsVector searchRAGEvaluation

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Generative AI & LLMsPlanned courseView course Prompt EngineeringPlanned courseView course RAG & Vector DatabasesPlanned courseView course

Portfolio projectBuild a cited document assistant and measure retrieval and answer quality.

03

Applied AI Engineering

Agents, security, and operations

Create controlled agents and operate AI systems securely with monitoring and governance.

AgentsTool callingAI securityGuardrailsObservabilityDeployment

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AI Agents & Tool CallingPlanned courseView course AI Security & Responsible AIPlanned courseView course Deploying & Monitoring AIPlanned courseView course

Portfolio projectDeploy a tool-using agent with least-privilege access, evaluations, logs, and operational safeguards.

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AI Engineer job simulation

First day to first month

Inspect the existing AI stack on Day 1, complete realistic Week 1 tickets, and deliver a Month 1 internal assistant.

Architecture discoveryPermissionsRAGEvaluationMonitoringTechnical demo

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AI Engineer Job SimulationPlanned courseView course

Portfolio projectShip and present a secure internal knowledge assistant from discovery through production-readiness.

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Tools and platforms you will practice.

PythonREST APIsLLMsEmbeddingsVector databasesRAGAI agentsEvaluationGitObservability

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