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Foundation Course
Advanced Workshops
ACCELERATED AI TRAINING FOR EXPERIENCED DEVELOPERS
Join other motivated engineers who are serious about learning how to build production AI systems.
WELCOME TO MAXACADEMY
The Max Academy Approach
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Production-focused curriculum
Build practical AI solutions that solve real business problems
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Accelerated and intense
Compress months of learning into six focused weeks with intentionally designed projects
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Compatible with your career
Evening and weekend schedules designed for employed engineers
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Choose your path
Start with our 6-week foundations cohort or explore a-la-carte advanced workshops
OUR FLAGSHIP COURSE
Practical LLM Bootcamp for Developers
A 6-week intensive program that takes you from LLM basics to building production-ready AI applications. Perfect for senior developers who want to architect and implement real-world generative AI solutions.
There are a wide range of solutions that you'll be able to build after this course:
A customer support bot
Semantic email search
Medical or legal literature research bot
Q&A bot for internal company documents or codebases
Workflow automation with unstructured data
Automated student homework grader
WHAT WE OFFER
The Accountability Promise
Growth requires discomfort, and facing discomfort is harder the older we get, especially with work deadlines and family commitments.
We take that decision out of your hands with our Accountability Promise.
If you take the course, you're committing to come to each session and to complete
Unexcused absences and failing to complete weekly projects will result in being withdrawn from the course. No refunds after the second week.
It'll be a challenge, but hundreds of engineers have succeeded with these projects, and 100% cite they hit their AI learning goals.
We'll add in some fun competition - the winning team at demo day gets
We take that decision out of your hands with our Accountability Promise.
If you take the course, you're committing to come to each session and to complete
5-10 hours
of weekly projects.Unexcused absences and failing to complete weekly projects will result in being withdrawn from the course. No refunds after the second week.
It'll be a challenge, but hundreds of engineers have succeeded with these projects, and 100% cite they hit their AI learning goals.
We'll add in some fun competition - the winning team at demo day gets
$1,000
and an introduction to VCs.Weekly Topics
Prompt design and evaluation
LLM solutions are non-deterministic, and the majority of challenges are in moving from an 80% working prototype to a production system. This makes evaluation design and monitoring an essential component.
Embeddings & RAG
LLM solutions need to fetch context from the outside world (Retrieval Augmented Generation). Embeddings and vector databases are new tools, but practical solutions will require a fusion with traditional search indexing.
Tools
In order to delegate and act in the real world, LLM models will utilize specialized tools to interact with APIs.
Agents
Composing solutions will require breaking tasks into smaller scopes, and using various planning and supervisory techniques to navigate a dynamic world.
Fine-tuning
Fine-tuning is only required when moving from a prototype to production to increase consistency and reduce cost.
Implementing GPT + Demo day
We'll give a high-level (although still hands-on) tour of implementing the underlying transformer architecture with Pytorch.
Already mastered the basics and ready for the advanced topics?
Upcoming
Cohorts
Cohorts
At Max Academy, we run multiple cohorts each year, so you can choose the one that best fits your schedule and goals. Check out our upcoming start and end dates below:
$3,000
EARLY BIRD RATE
$3,500 (REGULAR RATE)
Max Academy's short AI course offers hands-on learning, covering key skills in machine learning and data science to help students dive into the world of AI.
April Cohort
COHORT #1:
April 1st - May 6th 2025
Tuesdays @ 6pm - 8pm PT
COHORT #2:
April 3rd - May 6th 2025
Tuesdays @ 6pm - 8pm PT
June Cohort
COHORT #1:
June 5th - August 30th 2025
Tuesdays @ 6pm - 8pm PT
COHORT #2:
June 5th - August 30th 2025
Tuesdays @ 6pm - 8pm PT
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