This course has 18 lessons. Each lesson covers its own topic so start wherever you like! Lessons are labeled either "Learn" lessons explaining a Generative AI concept or "Build" lessons that explain a concept and code examples in both **Python** and **TypeScript** when possible. Each lesson also includes a "Keep Learning" section with additional learning tools. **What You Need** * Access to the Azure OpenAI Service **OR** OpenAI API - _Only required to complete coding lessons_ * Basic knowledge of Python or Typescript is helpful - *For absolute beginners check out these Python and TypeScript courses. * A Github account to fork this entire repo to your own GitHub account We have created a **Course Setup** lesson to help you with setting up your development environment. Don't forget to star (🌟) this repo to find it easier later. ## 🧠 Ready to Deploy? If you are looking for more advanced code samples, check out our collection of Generative AI Code Samples in both **Python** and **TypeScript**. ## 🗣️ Meet Other Learners, Get Support Join our official AI Discord server to meet and network with other learners taking this course and get support. ## 🚀 Building a Startup? Sign up for Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub to receive **free OpenAI credits** and up to **$150k towards Azure credits to access OpenAI models through Azure OpenAI Services**. ## 🙏 Want to help? Do you have suggestions or found spelling or code errors? Raise an issue or Create a pull request ## 📂 Each lesson includes: * A short video introduction to the topic * A written lesson located in the README * Python and TypeScript code samples supporting Azure OpenAI and OpenAI API * Links to extra resources to continue your learning ## 🗃️ Lessons | | Lesson Link | Description | Additional Learning | | :-: | :------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------: | :---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------: | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | 00 | Course Setup | **Learn:** How to Setup Your Development Environment | Learn More | | 01 | Introduction to Generative AI and LLMs | **Learn:** Understanding what Generative AI is and how Large Language Models (LLMs) work. | Learn More | | 02 | Exploring and comparing different LLMs | **Learn:** How to select the right model for your use case | Learn More | | 03 | Using Generative AI Responsibly | **Learn:** How to build Generative AI Applications responsibly | Learn More | | 04 | Understanding Prompt Engineering Fundamentals | **Learn:** Hands-on Prompt Engineering Best Practices | Learn More | | 05 | Creating Advanced Prompts | **Learn:** How to apply prompt engineering techniques that improve the outcome of your prompts. | Learn More | | 06 | Building Text Generation Applications | **Build:** A text generation app using Azure OpenAI | Learn More | | 07 | Building Chat Applications | **Build:** Techniques for efficiently building and integrating chat applications. | Learn More | | 08 | Building Search Apps Vector Databases | **Build:** A search application that uses Embeddings to search for data. | Learn More | | 09 | Building Image Generation Applications | **Build:** A image generation application | Learn More | | 10 | Building Low Code AI Applications | **Build:** A Generative AI application using Low Code tools | Learn More | | 11 | Integrating External Applications with Function Calling | **Build:** What is function calling and its use cases for applications | Learn More | | 12 | Designing UX for AI Applications | **Learn:** How to apply UX design principles when developing Generative AI Applications | Learn More | | 13 | Securing Your Generative AI Applications | **Learn:** The threats and risks to AI systems and methods to secure these systems. | Learn More | | 14 | The Generative AI Application Lifecycle | **Learn:** The tools and metrics to manage the LLM Lifecycle and LLMOps | Learn More | | 15 | Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and Vector Databases | **Build:** An application using a RAG Framework to retrieve embeddings from a Vector Databases | Learn More | | 16 | Open Source Models and Hugging Face | **Build:** An application using open source models available on Hugging Face | Learn More | | 17 | AI Agents | **Build:** An application using an AI Agent Framework | Learn More | | 18 | Fine-Tuning LLMs | **Learn:** The what, why and how of fine-tuning LLMs | Learn More |

AI-For-Beginners is a comprehensive 12-week, 24-lesson curriculum designed by experts at Microsoft to introduce beginners to the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The curriculum covers various topics such as Symbolic AI, Neural Networks, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Genetic Algorithms, and Multi-Agent Systems. It includes hands-on lessons, quizzes, and labs using popular frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch. The focus is on providing a foundational understanding of AI concepts and principles, making it an ideal starting point for individuals interested in AI.

A curated list of 50+ resources to help you become a Generative AI Data Scientist. This repository includes resources on building GenAI applications with Large Language Models (LLMs), and deploying LLMs and GenAI with Cloud-based solutions.

FlowDown is a blazing fast and smooth client app for using AI/LLM. It is lightweight and efficient with markdown support, universal compatibility, blazing fast text rendering, automated chat titles, and privacy by design. There are two editions available: FlowDown and FlowDown Community, with various features like chat with AI, fast markdown, privacy by design, bring your own LLM, offline LLM w/ MLX, visual LLM, web search, attachments, and language localization. FlowDown Community is now open-source, empowering developers to build interactive and responsive AI client apps.

The Prompt Engineering Holy Grail repository is a curated resource for prompt engineering enthusiasts, providing essential resources, tools, templates, and best practices to support learning and working in prompt engineering. It covers a wide range of topics related to prompt engineering, from beginner fundamentals to advanced techniques, and includes sections on learning resources, online courses, books, prompt generation tools, prompt management platforms, prompt testing and experimentation, prompt crafting libraries, prompt libraries and datasets, prompt engineering communities, freelance and job opportunities, contributing guidelines, code of conduct, support for the project, and contact information.

Every front-end GUI client for ChatGPT API is a curated list of graphical user interface alternatives to access the API for ChatGPT, Claude, and other LLMs. The repository serves as a collection of open-source, self-hosted, and desktop applications that provide different interfaces for interacting with ChatGPT and similar language models. Users can contribute by adding their own apps through pull requests, ensuring alphabetical order and easy access to various GUI options for ChatGPT API.

Langtrace is an open source observability software that lets you capture, debug, and analyze traces and metrics from all your applications that leverage LLM APIs, Vector Databases, and LLM-based Frameworks. It supports Open Telemetry Standards (OTEL), and the traces generated adhere to these standards. Langtrace offers both a managed SaaS version (Langtrace Cloud) and a self-hosted option. The SDKs for both Typescript/Javascript and Python are available, making it easy to integrate Langtrace into your applications. Langtrace automatically captures traces from various vendors, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, Langchain, LlamaIndex, Pinecone, and ChromaDB.

sktime is a Python library for time series analysis that provides a unified interface for various time series learning tasks such as classification, regression, clustering, annotation, and forecasting. It offers time series algorithms and tools compatible with scikit-learn for building, tuning, and validating time series models. sktime aims to enhance the interoperability and usability of the time series analysis ecosystem by empowering users to apply algorithms across different tasks and providing interfaces to related libraries like scikit-learn, statsmodels, tsfresh, PyOD, and fbprophet.

AgentQL is a suite of tools for extracting data and automating workflows on live web sites featuring an AI-powered query language, Python and JavaScript SDKs, a browser-based debugger, and a REST API endpoint. It uses natural language queries to pinpoint data and elements on any web page, including authenticated and dynamically generated content. Users can define structured data output and apply transforms within queries. AgentQL's natural language selectors find elements intuitively based on the content of the web page and work across similar web sites, self-healing as UI changes over time.

DinoPal is an AI voice assistant residing in the Mac menu bar, offering real-time voice and video chat, screen sharing, online search, and multilingual support. It provides various AI assistants with unique strengths and characteristics to meet different conversational needs. Users can easily install DinoPal and access different communication modes, with a call time limit of 30 minutes. User feedback can be shared in the Discord community. DinoPal is powered by Google Gemini & Pipecat.

MaixPy is a Python SDK that enables users to easily create AI vision projects on edge devices. It provides a user-friendly API for accessing NPU, making it suitable for AI Algorithm Engineers, STEM teachers, Makers, Engineers, Students, Enterprises, and Contestants. The tool supports Python programming, MaixVision Workstation, AI vision, video streaming, voice recognition, and peripheral usage. It also offers an online AI training platform called MaixHub. MaixPy is designed for new hardware platforms like MaixCAM, offering improved performance and features compared to older versions. The ecosystem includes hardware, software, tools, documentation, and a cloud platform.

Awesome AI GPTs is an open repository that collects resources and fun ways to use OpenAI GPTs. It includes databases, search tools, open-source projects, articles, attack and defense strategies, installation of custom plugins, knowledge bases, and community interactions related to GPTs. Users can find curated lists, leaked prompts, and various GPT applications in this repository. The project aims to empower users with AI capabilities and foster collaboration in the AI community.

Camera Chess Web is a tool that allows you to use your phone camera to replace chess eBoards. With Camera Chess Web, you can broadcast your game to Lichess, play a game on Lichess, or digitize a chess game from a video or live stream. Camera Chess Web is free to download on Google Play.

Botright is a tool designed for browser automation that focuses on stealth and captcha solving. It uses a real Chromium-based browser for enhanced stealth and offers features like browser fingerprinting and AI-powered captcha solving. The tool is suitable for developers looking to automate browser tasks while maintaining anonymity and bypassing captchas. Botright is available in async mode and can be easily integrated with existing Playwright code. It provides solutions for various captchas such as hCaptcha, reCaptcha, and GeeTest, with high success rates. Additionally, Botright offers browser stealth techniques and supports different browser functionalities for seamless automation.

ZhiLight is a highly optimized large language model (LLM) inference engine developed by Zhihu and ModelBest Inc. It accelerates the inference of models like Llama and its variants, especially on PCIe-based GPUs. ZhiLight offers significant performance advantages compared to mainstream open-source inference engines. It supports various features such as custom defined tensor and unified global memory management, optimized fused kernels, support for dynamic batch, flash attention prefill, prefix cache, and different quantization techniques like INT8, SmoothQuant, FP8, AWQ, and GPTQ. ZhiLight is compatible with OpenAI interface and provides high performance on mainstream NVIDIA GPUs with different model sizes and precisions.

AgentCloud is an open-source platform that enables companies to build and deploy private LLM chat apps, empowering teams to securely interact with their data. It comprises three main components: Agent Backend, Webapp, and Vector Proxy. To run this project locally, clone the repository, install Docker, and start the services. The project is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 only. Contributions and feedback are welcome from the community.

Zep is an open-source platform for building and deploying large language model (LLM) applications. It provides a suite of tools and services that make it easy to integrate LLMs into your applications, including chat history memory, embedding, vector search, and data enrichment. Zep is designed to be scalable, reliable, and easy to use, making it a great choice for developers who want to build LLM-powered applications quickly and easily.

LoLLMs Server is a text generation server based on large language models. It provides a Flask-based API for generating text using various pre-trained language models. This server is designed to be easy to install and use, allowing developers to integrate powerful text generation capabilities into their applications.

LlamaIndex.TS is a data framework for your LLM application. Use your own data with large language models (LLMs, OpenAI ChatGPT and others) in Typescript and Javascript.

Semantic Kernel is an SDK that integrates Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and Hugging Face with conventional programming languages like C#, Python, and Java. Semantic Kernel achieves this by allowing you to define plugins that can be chained together in just a few lines of code. What makes Semantic Kernel _special_ , however, is its ability to _automatically_ orchestrate plugins with AI. With Semantic Kernel planners, you can ask an LLM to generate a plan that achieves a user's unique goal. Afterwards, Semantic Kernel will execute the plan for the user.

Botpress is a platform for building next-generation chatbots and assistants powered by OpenAI. It provides a range of tools and integrations to help developers quickly and easily create and deploy chatbots for various use cases.

BotSharp is an open-source machine learning framework for building AI bot platforms. It provides a comprehensive set of tools and components for developing and deploying intelligent virtual assistants. BotSharp is designed to be modular and extensible, allowing developers to easily integrate it with their existing systems and applications. With BotSharp, you can quickly and easily create AI-powered chatbots, virtual assistants, and other conversational AI applications.

Qdrant is a vector similarity search engine and vector database. It is written in Rust, which makes it fast and reliable even under high load. Qdrant can be used for a variety of applications, including: * Semantic search * Image search * Product recommendations * Chatbots * Anomaly detection Qdrant offers a variety of features, including: * Payload storage and filtering * Hybrid search with sparse vectors * Vector quantization and on-disk storage * Distributed deployment * Highlighted features such as query planning, payload indexes, SIMD hardware acceleration, async I/O, and write-ahead logging Qdrant is available as a fully managed cloud service or as an open-source software that can be deployed on-premises.

Sweep is an AI junior developer that turns bugs and feature requests into code changes. It automatically handles developer experience improvements like adding type hints and improving test coverage.

The Teams AI Library is a software development kit (SDK) that helps developers create bots that can interact with Teams and Microsoft 365 applications. It is built on top of the Bot Framework SDK and simplifies the process of developing bots that interact with Teams' artificial intelligence capabilities. The SDK is available for JavaScript/TypeScript, .NET, and Python.

This guide is dedicated to Large Language Models (LLMs) that you can run on your home computer. It assumes your PC is a lower-end, non-gaming setup.

Supercharge WordPress Content Workflows and Engagement with Artificial Intelligence. Tap into leading cloud-based services like OpenAI, Microsoft Azure AI, Google Gemini and IBM Watson to augment your WordPress-powered websites. Publish content faster while improving SEO performance and increasing audience engagement. ClassifAI integrates Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies to lighten your workload and eliminate tedious tasks, giving you more time to create original content that matters.

Chatbot UI is an open-source AI chat app that allows users to create and deploy their own AI chatbots. It is easy to use and can be customized to fit any need. Chatbot UI is perfect for businesses, developers, and anyone who wants to create a chatbot.

BricksLLM is a cloud native AI gateway written in Go. Currently, it provides native support for OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI and vLLM. BricksLLM aims to provide enterprise level infrastructure that can power any LLM production use cases. Here are some use cases for BricksLLM: * Set LLM usage limits for users on different pricing tiers * Track LLM usage on a per user and per organization basis * Block or redact requests containing PIIs * Improve LLM reliability with failovers, retries and caching * Distribute API keys with rate limits and cost limits for internal development/production use cases * Distribute API keys with rate limits and cost limits for students

uAgents is a Python library developed by Fetch.ai that allows for the creation of autonomous AI agents. These agents can perform various tasks on a schedule or take action on various events. uAgents are easy to create and manage, and they are connected to a fast-growing network of other uAgents. They are also secure, with cryptographically secured messages and wallets.

Griptape is a modular Python framework for building AI-powered applications that securely connect to your enterprise data and APIs. It offers developers the ability to maintain control and flexibility at every step. Griptape's core components include Structures (Agents, Pipelines, and Workflows), Tasks, Tools, Memory (Conversation Memory, Task Memory, and Meta Memory), Drivers (Prompt and Embedding Drivers, Vector Store Drivers, Image Generation Drivers, Image Query Drivers, SQL Drivers, Web Scraper Drivers, and Conversation Memory Drivers), Engines (Query Engines, Extraction Engines, Summary Engines, Image Generation Engines, and Image Query Engines), and additional components (Rulesets, Loaders, Artifacts, Chunkers, and Tokenizers). Griptape enables developers to create AI-powered applications with ease and efficiency.