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### 18 Lessons teaching everything you need to know to start building Generative AI applications

# Generative AI for Beginners (Version 2) - A Course

| 13 | [Securing Your Generative AI Applications](https://oai.azure.com/portal/e7de87023b2348239a0363cb4aa49f6f/13-securing-ai-applications/README.md?WT.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst) | Learn: The threats and risks to AI systems and methods to secure these systems. | [Learn More](https://aka.ms/genai-collection?WT.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst) |
| 14 | [The Generative AI Application Lifecycle](https://oai.azure.com/portal/e7de87023b2348239a0363cb4aa49f6f/14-the-generative-ai-application-lifecycle/README.md?WT.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst) | Learn: The tools and metrics to manage the LLM Lifecycle and LLMOps | [Learn More](https://aka.ms/genai-collection?WT.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst) |
| 15 | [Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and Vector Databases](https://oai.azure.com/portal/e7de87023b2348239a0363cb4aa49f6f/15-rag-and-vector-databases/README.md?WT.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst) | Build: An application using a RAG Framework to retrieve embeddings from a Vector Databases | [Learn More](https://aka.ms/genai-collection?WT.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst) |
| 16 | [Open Source Models and Hugging Face](https://oai.azure.com/portal/e7de87023b2348239a0363cb4aa49f6f/16-open-source-models/README.md?WT.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst) | Build: An application using open source models available on Hugging Face | [Learn More](https://aka.ms/genai-collection?WT.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst) |
| 17 | [AI Agents](https://oai.azure.com/portal/e7de87023b2348239a0363cb4aa49f6f/17-ai-agents/README.md?WT.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst) | Build: An application using an AI Agent Framework | [Learn More](https://aka.ms/genai-collection?WT.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst) |
| 18 | [Fine-Tuning LLMs](https://oai.azure.com/portal/e7de87023b2348239a0363cb4aa49f6f/18-fine-tuning/README.md?WT.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst) | Learn: The what, why and how of fine-tuning LLMs | [Learn More](https://aka.ms/genai-collection?WT.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst) |

🌟 Special thanks
Special thanks to [**John Aziz**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/john0isaac/) for creating all of the GitHub Actions and workflows

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