GenAI Foundations: From NLP to Transformers

Build the foundational knowledge needed for modern AI engineering — from prerequisites and NLP basics through the revolutionary Attention mechanism and Transformer architecture that powers today's LLMs. Course 01 · Foundations · 8 lessons · ~15h

Lessons

#	Lesson	Duration	Level
1	Prerequisites — What You Need Before Starting	45 min	beginner
2	Mathematical Foundations for Deep Learning	40 min	beginner
3	NLP Fundamentals — How Computers Process Language	45 min	beginner
4	From Word2Vec to Contextual Embeddings	35 min	intermediate
5	The Attention Mechanism — "Attention Is All You Need"	40 min	intermediate
6	Self-Attention and Multi-Head Attention	45 min	intermediate
7	The Complete Transformer Architecture	50 min	intermediate
8	From Transformers to Large Language Models	40 min	intermediate
Start here: Prerequisites — What You Need Before Starting