AIE4

Build and evaluate RAG and agentic reasoning apps with the best tooling and community for people who want to build, ship, and share 🏗️🚢🚀.

"Dr. Greg" Loughnane

Co-Founder & CEO @ AI Makerspace

Chris "The Wiz 🪄" Alexiuk

Co-Founder & CTO @ AI Makerspace

The AI Engineering Bootcamp

Cursor

Claude

OpenAI

Hugging Face

LangChain

Our Community 🏗️ 🚢🚀 AI Makerspace is on a mission to create the world's leading community for people who want to build, ship, and share production LLM applications. Welcome! We invite you to join our close-knit AI Makerspace community on YouTube (learn live weekly with us for free at 10 AM PT on Wednesdays!) or Discord to start building, shipping, and sharing with us today! https://aimakerspace.io/ Our Course The AIE Bootcamp is truly a bootcamp. It's hard. It's a grind. But it will transform you! It will get you comfortable thriving at "The LLM Edge" and beyond. Our students don't just learn; they transform! Check out the student testimonials below. Plus, every cohort culminates in a live Demo Day experience! In 2024, many of our graduates launched entirely new startups based on their demo day presentations! Take a look at some of the presentations https://bit.ly/best-of-demo-day Our Ethos Build 🏗️, Ship 🚢, Share 🚀! This is the secret to success in a 21st-century workforce, and you will live this every class, in every week of the cohort! 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Specifically, you will get hands-on experience building and sharing complex LLM and agentic applications weekly, receiving constant feedback during live sessions and through your homework submissions via instructors, peer supporters, and your fellow cohort members. 🙋 What are the prerequisites? You must be somewhat familiar with Python programming, prompt engineering, and data science. However, most of all, you must be driven to succeed in Generative AI in 2025. 🙋 How will I know if it's right for me? If you're unsure if this course be a fit for you, you'll find tons of resources on this page to help you decide, including: 📜 Curriculum &amp; Detailed Schedule: https://bit.ly/aie6-curr🤩 Demo Day Videos: https://bit.ly/best-of-demo-day🎤 Student Interview Videos: https://aimakerspace.io/category/transformations/ Here are a few long-form pieces of writing about the student experience:- Richard Gower, Cohort 3: https://bit.ly/aie-cohort-3-reflections- Ches Roldan's "20 Tips to Survive AI Makerspace’s AI Engineering Bootcamp (as a non-technical person)": https://bit.ly/aie-20tips 💰 How much do the tools cost? Don't worry! This course is for the GPU-poor among us! This course adapts to industry-standard open-source software and compute hardware and is cloud platform agnostic. We strive to keep your additional costs low (below ~$100 total). Check Q&amp;A for more info!**

Prototype agentic apps and get them into Production.  Ship fast, then scale.

Data scientists and machine learning engineers aiming at becoming full-stack AI practitioners.

Software engineers who want to build complex LLM and agentic applications.

Technical product managers or execs who guide their teams on what to build, why, and how.

Who is this course for

What you’ll get out of this course

You will present a unique project live to a cohort of your peers and the public!

🤩 Demo Day!

Certified AI Engineers get direct access to job opportunities from our network

💼 Hiring Opportunities

Work with certified AI Engineers in dedicated small Journey groups to discuss and code throughout the cohort!

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Peer-Supported Live Coding

Student success will help you achieve your goals before and after certification!

🤝 1:1 Career Coaching

Leverage in-context learning as an engineer for prototyping, RAG applications, agents, and more!

🧑‍💻 Prompt Engineering

Best-practice RAG tooling, techniques, and best-practices exist now. Learn them!

🙋 Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

Build complex LLM applications capable of reasoning, action, and working with external tools!

🕴️ Agents

Efficiently fine-tune LLM and embedding models to adapt to your task or domain!

⚖️ Fine-Tuning

From o1 to agentic conversation programming, we'll cover the latest in LLM reasoning and frameworks.

🤔 Reasoning & Test-Time Compute

Instrument agent applications for metrics-driven development to show your quality improvements quantiatively.

📈 Evaluation

Debug, test, and monitor applications built using any leading LLM framework!

🔎 Observability

Learn the leading tools and quantization techniques to accelerate inference for the latency and throughput you need.

📊 Inference Optimization

Learn to efficiently leverage resources so you can keep your data super private in the years to come.

🏢 On-Prem Serving

Build hands-on with <a href="https://docs.astral.sh/uv/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">uv</a>, <a href="https://www.cursor.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cursor</a>, and best-practice LLMs, vector stores, agent frameworks, and more!

🧰 Latest and Greatest

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First Module

Second Module

Third Module

Course syllabus

<ul><li>W1: April 1st, 3rd</li><li>W2: April 8th, 10th</li><li>W3: April 15th, 17th</li><li>W4: April 22nd, 24th</li><li>W5: April 29th, May 1st</li><li>W6: May 6th, 8th</li><li>W7: May 13th, 15th</li><li>W8: May 20th, 22nd</li><li>W9: May 27th, 29th</li><li>W10: June 3rd, 5th</li></ul> * All sessions are recorded!

Tuesdays & Thursdays

Each class period, we will get hands-on with Python coding homework!

Weekly Programming Projects

Open to the public - Friends, family, coworkers, and bosses welcome! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrSHiQgy4VjGf2r-0n__jMDYtiLOf6OPo" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AIE1 Demo Day Playlist</a> &amp; <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/events/7177388473547468800/comments/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LinkedIn Event</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrSHiQgy4VjEmTW_5SYdSJT8xOKMtJC5b" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AIE2 Demo Day Playlist</a> &amp; <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/events/7194472892556853248/comments/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LinkedIn Event</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrSHiQgy4VjEkgERc9palQ4W_LTM22UyN" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AIE3 Demo Day Playlist</a> &amp; <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/events/7219879535939330049/comments/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LinkedIn Event</a>

Demo Day!

Dr. Greg: Thursdays @ 8 AM PTThe Wiz 🪄: Fridays @ 3 PM PT

Instructor Office Hours

We typically cover 6-7 days per week with 1 or more office hours held by peer supporters!

Peer Supporter Office Hours

Tuesdays at 9 AM PT: For International (EMEA) students, a Certified AI Engineer will hold weekly 60-minute deep dive sessions!

International-Friendly Weekly Deep Dive Sessions

Course schedule

Hear about student transformations at AI Makerspace!

AI Engineering Demo Day!

Member of Technical Staff, NetApp; Software Engineer | Innovator | Women in Tech Advocate | Cloud & AI Enthusiast | Mentor

Lead AI Architect, Digit8 Group SA; Full-Stack Developer and Data Scientist

Emerging Technology Researcher @ Crabash; Engineering Leader - People: Team Building; Process: Optimization; Product: Mobile, AI, IoT

Responsible AI & Tech | Ex-entrepreneur, large & small orgs, non-profits

RAG ASessment (RAGAS) Co-Founder and Maintainer (YC W24 Batch) 

Senior Research Engineer @ Arcee.ai, Creator of mergekit, ex-Apple, ex-NASA

USMC Veteran ◆ AI/ML Automation ◆ AI Consultant

AI Consultant, Oxford Ph.D., Imperial College London Postdoc

Founder, AI KAT, ex-Vodafone, ex-Unilever, ex-Reckitt Benckiser

🤖 Generative AI Hacker | 👨🏽‍💻 AI Engineer | 👷🏽‍♀️ Developer Advocate | Building🏗️-Shipping🚢-Sharing🚀

CEO & Board Member @ Telice; Innovation and digital transformation | Railways | Tunnels | Technology

Founder @ Code Sprinkles, 
Consultant & Research Fellow @ FemHealth Insights

Hear from alumni, demo day judges, hiring partners, event partners, and community members!

Your AI Engineering Learning Transformation Awaits!

AI Engineering Demo Day, Cohort 1!

Meet your instructor

We teach concepts AND code. Never one or the other. AI has accelerated so quickly that anyone who's been a manager the last few years has not yet seen the code for themselves.

Active hands-on learning at the edge

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams. We can't wait to see what you build, ship, and share on Demo Day projects 🤩.

Project-based and community-driven

Join a community of like-minded AI practitioners who are all in on Generative AI, and who are heading down the same career path as you are.

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