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AI Engineer: Introduction to RAG & Search.

Learn to build production-ready Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems that extend an LLM's context and dramatically improve its answers. In this self-paced, intermediate course you'll master information retrieval and search, from TF-IDF, BM25, semantic and hybrid search to vector databases like Weaviate and PgVector, then build and optimize LLM applications with chunking, reranking, and advanced prompt engineering. You'll finish by making your system production-ready with observability, evaluation, logging, and prompt versioning using Langfuse.

Level

Intermediate

Duration

25–30 Hours

Format

Self-Paced

Certification

Included

AI Engineer: Introduction to RAG & Search

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