Advanced3 hours· 7 lessons

Generative AI Deep Dive

Understand the technology behind generative AI at a deeper level. This path covers transformer architectures, diffusion models, training methodologies, RLHF, scaling laws, and the technical innovations driving modern AI capabilities.

What You'll Learn

  • Understand transformer architecture and attention mechanisms
  • Learn how diffusion models generate images and video
  • Explore training techniques including pre-training and RLHF
  • Understand scaling laws and their implications
  • Learn about mixture-of-experts and efficient architectures
  • Explore multimodal model design and training
  • Understand current research frontiers and open problems

Course Lessons

1

Transformer Architecture Explained

25 min read

Deep dive into the transformer architecture — self-attention, positional encoding, feed-forward layers, and how they combine to process language.

2

How LLMs Are Trained

22 min read

Understand the training pipeline from data collection to pre-training, instruction tuning, and RLHF. Learn what makes training expensive and how it's optimized.

3

Diffusion Models: From Noise to Images

22 min read

Learn how diffusion models work — the forward and reverse process, U-Net and DiT architectures, and conditioning mechanisms like classifier-free guidance.

4

Scaling Laws and Emergent Capabilities

20 min read

Explore the scaling laws that predict model performance, emergent capabilities that appear at scale, and the debate about what scaling can and cannot achieve.

5

Efficient Architectures: MoE and Beyond

20 min read

Understand mixture-of-experts, sparse attention, quantization, and other techniques that make large models practical to deploy.

6

Multimodal AI: Unifying Vision and Language

20 min read

Learn how models like GPT-5, Gemini, and Claude process multiple modalities — vision encoders, cross-attention, and unified architectures.

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7

Research Frontiers: What's Next for Generative AI

18 min read

Survey active research areas including world models, reasoning improvements, long-context understanding, and the path to more capable AI systems.

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