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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 areaVideo 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 areaWorkshops 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 workshopsContent grouped into evals, RAG, fine-tuning, building applications, and prompt engineering

  • Summarize each talk to enable skimming and skipping

    Individual course talksChapter summaries listing topics covered in each talk

  • Supply supplementary learning materials for talks

    A selected talk or workshopSlides, detailed notes, and links to additional resources

  • Recommend prerequisite learning for beginners

    Learner without prior LLM experienceSuggested 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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