New Course Alert - "AI Agents for Beginners"


Microsoft has released a free 10-lesson course named AI Agents for Beginners which takes you from concept to code while covering the fundamentals of building AI agents.

It covers the following topics:

  • What are AI agents?
  • Which AI agent framework to use?
  • How to design good AI agents?
  • What is the Agent Tool Use Design Pattern?
  • What is Agentic RAG?
  • How to build effective AI agents?
  • What Is the AI Agent Planning Design Pattern?
  • How to use a Multi-AI agent system?
  • How can AI agents improve? 
  • How to deploy AI agents into production?

Access it here - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/ai-agents-for-beginners/


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