Introduction to LLMs
A beginner-friendly course covering the fundamentals of Large Language Models — what they are, how they work, and how to use them effectively.
5 OF 5 COURSES AVAILABLE
Engineers, researchers and analysts who want to understand how frontier models are trained, measured and aligned.
Read a model release or paper critically: what training changed, what the evals really measure, and which safety claims are supported.
How instruction tuning, preference learning and LoRA shape a model.
advancedChain-of-thought, self-consistency and process supervision.
advancedBenchmarks, contamination and task-specific evaluation.
intermediateAlignment methods, red-teaming and human oversight.
advancedA beginner-friendly course covering the fundamentals of Large Language Models — what they are, how they work, and how to use them effectively.
Learn how supervised fine-tuning, RLHF, DPO, and LoRA turn a pre-trained model into an assistant, audit preference data, and decide when fine-tuning is worth it. Offline labs; no GPU required.
Understand chain-of-thought, test-time compute, self-consistency, and verifiers. Measure when a reasoning model is worth its cost and latency, using offline labs that need no paid API.
Build a transparent retrieval baseline, validate citations and access, design multimodal workflows, and evaluate an evidence-based tutor prototype.
Threat-model LLM applications, defend against direct and indirect prompt injection with controls enforced in code, handle personal data carefully, and build a red-team suite. Offline labs; no paid API.