An Open Course on LLMs, Led by Practitioners
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- Jul 21, 2026
About
Today, we are releasing Mastering LLMs , a set of workshops and talks from practitioners on topics like evals, retrieval-augmented-generation (RAG), fine-tuning and more. This course is unique because it is: Taught by 25+ industry veterans who are experts in information retrieval, machine learning, recommendation systems, MLOps and data science. We discuss how this prior art can be applied to LLMs to give you a meaningful advantage. Focused on applied topics that are relevant to people building
What it can do
Teach LLM evaluation techniques through practitioner-led workshops
Learner with basic LLM familiarity selecting the evals topic area → Video talks, notes, and resources on building and running LLM evals
Explain retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) methods from information retrieval experts
Learner selecting the RAG subject area → Workshops and annotated resources on applying RAG to AI products
Provide fine-tuning instruction for LLMs
Learner interested in fine-tuning (optionally completing the Instruction Tuning llama2 tutorial) → Talks, slides, and tutorials on fine-tuning models
Organize 40+ hours of content by subject area for navigation
Full course catalog of talks and workshops → Content grouped into evals, RAG, fine-tuning, building applications, and prompt engineering
Summarize each talk to enable skimming and skipping
Individual course talks → Chapter summaries listing topics covered in each talk
Supply supplementary learning materials for talks
A selected talk or workshop → Slides, detailed notes, and links to additional resources
Recommend prerequisite learning for beginners
Learner without prior LLM experience → Suggested resources such as 'A Hacker's Guide to LLMs'
Why it made the leaderboard
A free, well-organized 40+ hour course distilled from a popular paid program, with annotated talks and notes from practitioners across evals, RAG, and fine-tuning — a fast way to level up on shipping real LLM products rather than toy demos.
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