Master Agentic AI in 6 weeks
Aishwarya Srinivasan
AI Entrepreneur | Ex-Google, Microsoft
Arvind Narayanamurthy
AI Engineering Lead | Founder
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Build the skills and systems knowledge to become the top 0.1% in AI experts!
Go from AI-curious to AI-confident. Build real systems. Ship real work. Land real opportunities—all in less time than it takes to binge a Netflix series!
This course cuts through the hype to teach you the engineering principles required to build & deploy robust, agentic AI systems.
To make sure your learning reflects how AI is actually built today, we've partnered with top AI companies like NVIDIA, Nebius, AG2, LlamaIndex, Pinecone, & others — bringing you free credits & guest lectures from engineers at the frontier.
Battle-Tested Curriculum: We've distilled 7 years of experience building AI systems at Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM & Fireworks AI into 6 tight, outcome-driven weeks.
Proven Track Record: At The Gen Academy, we’ve successfully taught over 2500+ individuals, helping them upskill, architect complex pipelines, & transition into high-impact AI roles.
Built for Real-World Application: You'll build projects throughout & complete an end-to-end capstone proving you can architect reliable AI systems.
Bonus Career Launchpad: We will also teach you how to get hired & become truly AI-native. Week 7 covers the AI job market, portfolio building, & standing out to hiring managers.
What you’ll learn
We've refined the complex AI ecosystem into a streamlined, weekly progression so you can build with confidence.
How LLMs work: tokens, prompting, context windows, function calling, structured outputs
The AI stack, Model providers, platforms LM Arena, OpenRouter, Hugging Face–when each matters
Practical constraints: latency budgets, cost controls, reliability basics
Context engineering: beyond simple prompts
RAG to anchor your AI in truth: vector databases, chunking, embedding, retrieval strategies
Advanced RAG patterns
What makes a system agentic. Agentic architecture patterns
Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A)
Orchestration with agentic frameworks. Langchain & Langraph deep dive
Fundamentals of Finetuning. When finetuning pays off — and when it doesn't
Parameter-efficient methods : LoRA and QLoRA
Running models locally with Ollama
Why traditional testing fails for AI—and how to evaluate properly with Golden Datasets, Failure Analysis, and LLM-as-a-judge
Observability, Monitoring, and a survey of popular platforms to keep your systems reliable in production
Tackle hallucinations, prompt injection, data privacy, red teaming, and governance frameworks for production readiness.
State of the AI job market in 2026 — what's real vs. hype
Building a visible AI portfolio (GitHub + LinkedIn + writing) and becoming AI job-market ready
Becoming AI-Native: Tools to make you 10x more productive
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Who this course is for
Engineers, PMs, Data Scientists/Analysts: Upgrade your stack. Architect multi-agent pipelines and transition into high-impact AI roles.
Leaders & Entrepreneurs: Cut the fluff. Build technical intuition to evaluate AI tradeoffs, spot use cases, and deploy agentic solutions.
Future AI Practitioners: Build a real capstone project, prove you can ship AI systems, and crack the job market.
Prerequisites
No coding background required. No prior AI experience needed. Just bring:
Curiosity — you've wondered how this stuff actually works and want to understand it, not just hear about it.
Urgency to Learn — you're not here to slowly browse concepts. You're here because the world is moving fast and you intend to keep up.
Comfort with Discomfort — this course will push you. You'll encounter things you don't understand and you'll push through them anyway.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Aishwarya Srinivasan & Arvind Narayanamurthy in a real-time, interactive format.
Weekly Projects & Final Capstone
Six hands-on projects — one per week — that build on each other, plus a final end-to-end capstone project you design and build yourself. By the time you're done, you have a complete, working AI system that shows up on your resume and holds up in an interview.
Instructor Office Hours & Project Support
Direct access to Aishwarya and Arvind outside of sessions. Bring your project questions, unblock yourself when you're stuck, and get feedback from practitioners who have built these systems in the real world.
AI Launchpad In-Person Events (Exclusive)
Exclusive access to "AI Launchpad "— The Gen Academy's in-person community events held across cities. Network with fellow alumni, meet practitioners, and stay connected to the people and conversations shaping applied AI.
Interview Prep
Dedicated guidance on how to talk about your AI projects to hiring managers, answer technical screening questions, and position your experience for the roles you want — included in the Bonus Week.
Community Access
A private cohort community where you learn alongside peers from different industries and backgrounds. Bring your questions, share your work, and get input from people solving similar problems in different contexts.
Lifetime Access to Recordings & Resources
Every lecture, reading, template, and resource from the course is yours to keep and revisit forever. Cohort materials are updated each cycle, and you get access to all future updates at no extra cost.
Certification of Completion
"The Gen Academy" certificate issued upon completing the program — formatted and optimised to be added directly to your LinkedIn profile as a credential, giving you a visible, verifiable signal to recruiters and hiring managers that you have done the work.
Guest Lectures from Top AI Leaders & Industry Experts
Hear directly from engineers and researchers at NVIDIA, LlamaIndex, Pinecone, and more — people who built the tools you're learning. Each session is live, interactive, and focused on how AI systems actually work in production.
Exclusive Tool Access
Get free credits for the platforms and infrastructure you'll use throughout the course — courtesy of our educational partners. Build on real tools, not sandboxed demos.
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Course syllabus
21 live sessions • 60 lessons
Week 1
Schedule
Live sessions
4 hrs / week
Sat, May 30
3:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)
Sun, May 31
3:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)
Wed, Jun 3
3:00 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)
Projects
3 hrs / week
Async content
3 hrs / week
Testimonials
I simply love the way Aishwarya & Arvind curate the knowledge into crystal clear components and explain the concepts in super simpler terms even benefitting beginners like me. I am going to enrol to all of your future sessions, as I am sure there will be learning out of every session of them. There could be 'n' number of courses digitally available for foundational concepts. But The Gen Academy focuses on current trends and growing tool kits of AI Engineering which makes them one of the key player in educating the community and help us to stay current. Their hands on workshops makes it even more special to practice the tools and build confidence to use them
If you are looking for an understanding of complex topics in GenAI, look no further... Aishwarya and Arvind do a fantastic job of explaining it in a way that keeps you engaged and enough to get you started on the projects.
Very practical and hands-on. These classes are extremely valuable if you want real world AI engineering/product info.
The fine-tuning workshop helped me to understand how AI models can be customized to meet business needs. Someone like me focusing on AI project management, this workshop gave me valuable insights into technical workflow, better planning, and execution of AI projects.
I loved the session that Aishwarya and Aravind conducted. I consistently follow their videos and resources, and I genuinely appreciate both of them for their work. Thank you.
The session was exceptionally valuable and gave a real jump start for anyone looking to get into practical fine-tuning of LLMs. The concepts around when and where to use SFT, LoRA and QLoRA became very clear, and the hands-on demo tied everything together nicely. Overall, it was a well-structured, tightly packed session that delivered a lot of insight in a short time, and is something I would definitely recommend to others.
We have hosted 8 AI workshops in the past with 2500+ people
Frequently asked questions
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