Microsoft's Open-Source GenAI Beginner Course Hits 114k Stars on GitHub
thisdudelikesAI · x · 2026-08-01
Microsoft has released a free, open-source curriculum on GitHub called "Generative AI for Beginners," which has already garnered over 114k stars. The 21-lesson course covers prompt engineering, RAG, agents, and building AI apps with Azure OpenAI. Each lesson includes code, a video, and a quiz, making it one of the best free curriculums shipped in the last three years.
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