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🏕️ Level 4

AI Canopy

Engineer reliable GenAI systems

Design production-minded LLM applications with retrieval, tool use, agent workflows, MCP, evaluation, guardrails, and observability. Learn to optimise for quality, latency, safety, and cost.

13
Lessons
~18h
Duration
4/5
Level

🎯 What You'll Learn

  • ✓Build a grounded RAG assistant with citations
  • ✓Design a safe tool-using agent with explicit boundaries
  • ✓Create regression evaluations for quality and tool behaviour
  • ✓Instrument an AI feature for latency, cost, and failure analysis

Prerequisites: AI Branches plus basic Python or TypeScript

👤 Who Is This For?

Developers and technical practitioners building AI applications

🏷️ Topics Covered

LLM application architectureRAG, hybrid retrieval, and rerankingTool calling, MCP, and agent workflowsGolden datasets and agent evaluationGuardrails, tracing, latency, and cost
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Explore the Prompt Lab

Practice prompt engineering techniques with our interactive Prompt Lab and see results in real time.

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📚 Lessons

1
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Large Language Models

Explore how LLMs work, from transformer architecture to emergent capabilities and real-world limitations.

⏱️ 20m→
2
✍️

Prompt Engineering

Master advanced prompting techniques from zero-shot to tree-of-thought, and learn to build safe, reusable prompt templates.

Pro⏱️ 18m→

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Learn prompt engineering from scratch — what it is, why it matters, 5 key techniques with practical examples, common mistakes to avoid, and the best tools to practise with.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

AI Canopy is an intermediate-level program. We recommend completing AI Branches first, as Canopy dives deeper into neural networks, large language models, and AI system design.

Yes! AI Canopy covers how large language models work, including the transformer architecture that powers ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and similar models. You'll also master prompt engineering techniques.

No programming is required, though having basic technical literacy helps. We explain neural networks and LLMs conceptually with diagrams and interactive visualisations.

Yes! A personalised certificate is available upon completion of all lessons. It demonstrates your understanding of advanced AI concepts.

Prompt engineering is the skill of writing effective instructions for AI models like ChatGPT. It's one of the most in-demand skills in the AI era, and AI Canopy dedicates multiple lessons to mastering it.

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3
🧠

Deep Neural Networks

Understand the three major deep learning architectures and why transformers came to dominate modern AI.

Pro⏱️ 20m→
4
🔧

Fine-Tuning and RAG

Learn when and how to fine-tune models or use retrieval-augmented generation to build domain-specific AI applications.

Pro⏱️ 20m→
5
🤝

AI Agents and Autonomous Systems

Discover how AI agents observe, reason, and act - and why multi-agent collaboration is shaping the future of artificial intelligence.

Pro⏱️ 18m→
6
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Attention and Transformers

A deep dive into self-attention, multi-head attention, positional encoding, and the Transformer architecture that powers every modern large language model.

Pro⏱️ 20m→
7
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Scaling Laws and Training at Scale

Explore the empirical scaling laws that govern model performance, compute-optimal training strategies, and the distributed systems engineering behind training frontier models.

Pro⏱️ 18m→
8
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RLHF and Alignment

Understand how raw language models are transformed into helpful, harmless assistants through supervised fine-tuning, reward modelling, and reinforcement learning from human feedback.

Pro⏱️ 18m→
9
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Agentic Workflows

Learn how AI agents observe, reason, and act autonomously using tool use, memory, planning strategies, and multi-agent architectures for complex real-world tasks.

Pro⏱️ 20m→
10
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AI Safety and Red Teaming

Explore the attack surface of modern AI systems - from jailbreaks and prompt injection to adversarial examples and data poisoning - and learn the defence strategies that protect them.

Pro⏱️ 18m→
11
🔎

RAG Systems in Practice

Design retrieval that improves answers instead of hiding weak data behind a confident model.

Pro⏱️ 45m→
12
🧰

Tool-Using Agents and MCP

Move from impressive demos to bounded, observable agents that use tools safely.

Pro⏱️ 45m→
13
📈

Evaluate and Operate AI

Make quality, safety, latency, and cost measurable before an AI feature reaches users.

Pro⏱️ 45m→