Microsoft AI: Generative AI for Beginners
Learn the fundamentals of building Generative AI applications with our 21-lesson comprehensive course by Microsoft Cloud Advocates.
- Date created
- May 21, 2026
- Specialty level
- Foundational
- Training category
- External Course
- Provider
- Microsoft
- Timeline
- 21 lessons
- Cost
- Free
Course intelligence
Expected end-productTraining Resource
Intended goalsIncludes content about introduction to generative AI and LLMs, comparing different LLMs, using GenAI responsibly, understanding prompt engineering, building text generation applications, chat applications and search applications, building low-code AI applications, designing UX for AI applications, the GenAI application lifecycle, retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and vector databases, open-source models and Hugging Face, AI Agents, fine-tuning LLMs, and building with small language models (SLMs), mistral models, and meta models.
PrerequisitesGit (course can be cloned by Git)
Recommended whenYou want to learn about generative AI
ApplicabilityAnything involving generative AI
Certification examNo exam listed