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Generative AI: Foundation Models and Platforms

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Understanding the core concepts and foundational models of generative AI gives you the footing that you need in the rapidly developing field of generative AI, which is transforming our world. Along with deep learning and LLMs, you'll explore GANs, VAEs, transformers, and diffusion models, which are the building blocks of generative AI. This course is for all enthusiasts and practitioners with an interest in learning what generative AI is and how it works.

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Language

  • English

Topic

  • Artificial Intelligence

Skills You Will Learn

  • Artificial Intelligence, LLM, Generative AI, NLP

Offered By

  • IBMSkillsNetwork

Estimated Effort

  • 6 hours

Platform

  • SkillsNetwork

Last Update

  • March 19, 2024
About this Course
Focusing on the core concepts and foundational AI models that form the building blocks of generative AI, this course provides a base to help you build your generative AI skills. Explore deep learning and large language models (LLM) while learning about GANs, VAEs, transformers, and diffusion models, which are the building blocks of generative AI. 

In the course, you'll become familiar with the concept of foundation models, learn about the capabilities of pretrained models and platforms for AI application development, and explore how foundation models use them to generate text, images, and code. You will also explore different generative AI platforms like IBM watsonx and Hugging Face. The included hands-on labs provide an opportunity to explore the use cases of generative AI. In this course, you will explore different models, such as IBM Granite, OpenAI GPT, Google flan, and Meta Llama , and hear from expert practitioners about the capabilities, applications, and tools of generative AI.

This course is designed for everyone an interest in the rapidly developing field of generative AI, which is transforming our world. 

Course Syllabus

Module 1: Models for Generative AI
  • Course Introduction
  • Deep Learning and Large Language Models
  • Generative AI Models
  • Foundation Models
Module 2: Platforms for Generative AI
  • Pre-trained Models: Text-to-Text Generation
  • Pre-trained Models: Text-to-Image Generation
  • Pre-trained Models: Text-to-Code Generation
  • IBM watsonx.ai: generative AI for Business
  • Hugging Face: Open Source  Generative AI
Module 3: Course Quiz, Project, and Wrap-up

Recommended Skills Prior to Taking this Course

This course is for anyone wanting to learn and get familiar with the concepts of generative AI. No prior knowledge is required for this course. Note that this platform works best with current versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Safari.