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Generative AI for Beginners

Microsoft's 21-lesson course on building with generative AI — from prompting to agents.

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Microsoft's free 21-lesson course (118k+ stars) covers the full generative-AI building spectrum: prompting, embeddings, RAG, function calling, safety, and agents, each lesson with video, written guide, and runnable Python/TypeScript samples. The broader sibling of AI Agents for Beginners — start here if the agents course feels too narrow.

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