Large Language Models (LLM) Intro training

The fast pace of development in LLMs and related technologies, such as agentic AI, made it possible to use them even in enterprise grade applications. There are already a few areas where a new generation of LLM-based applications totally redefined applications' capabilities and users' expectations while AI technologies are going to radically change all kinds of other software areas as well. That's why IT and other technical managers and professionals need to understand the technologies used in AI applications such as LLMs, RAG and agents.

Main topics:

• Introduction to LLM based applications: current types, building blocks, challenges

• Why and how LLMs work and are trained?

• Using closed- and open-source LLMs via APIs and app. development frameworks

• Prompt engineering

• "Talk with your documents": Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

• "AI that thinks and acts": LLM Agents

• Quality Assurance at LLM apps: Tracing and Evaluation (optional)