The Generative AI Career Masterplan

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Generative AI Architectures and Advanced Concepts

Model-specific optimization has become essential as different AI models demonstrate distinct response patterns and capabilities... Always favor the model provider’s documentation to learn how to interact with a specific model.

– Maxime Labonne

In this chapter, we explore the core building blocks behind modern generative AI (GenAI) systems. We start with architectures to see how models have evolved beyond the original Transformer to improve efficiency and reduce costs. We then cover how to effectively communicate with these models through prompt engineering, before diving into retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems that ground AI responses in your data. Finally, we see how to combine these ...