Grokking the Generative AI System Design

Explore the design of scalable generative AI systems guided by a structured framework and real-world systems in text, image, audio, and video generation.

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30 Lessons

4h

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Explore the design of scalable generative AI systems guided by a structured framework and real-world systems in text, image, audio, and video generation.

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This course includes

5 AI Prompts
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16 Quizzes
7 Code Snippets

This course includes

5 AI Prompts
7 AI Feedbacks
16 Quizzes
7 Code Snippets

Course Overview

GenAI System Design is emerging as its own interview category at top tech companies, distinct from traditional ML System Design. The questions are different, the architectures are different, and the scale considerations (GPU compute, parallelism, inference optimization) require their own mental models. Having spent years researching adaptive AI systems and neural networks – and now leading the creation of learning content at Educative – I designed this course to bridge that gap between understanding generat...Show More

TAKEAWAY SKILLS

Generative Ai

System Design

What You'll Learn

Apply the SCALED framework — a 6-step methodology for designing large-scale Generative AI systems

Design real-world GenAI systems across four modalities: text-to-text (ChatGPT), text-to-image (DALL·E), text-to-speech (ElevenLabs), and text-to-video (SORA)

Estimate computational resources for training and deploying LLMs and other generative models at scale

Evaluate GenAI model performance using targeted metrics and optimization techniques

Apply foundational concepts: neural networks, transformers, tokenization, embeddings, RAG, and fine-tuning

Practice with 4 mock interviews covering end-to-end GenAI System Design problems

What You'll Learn

Apply the SCALED framework — a 6-step methodology for designing large-scale Generative AI systems

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Course Content

1.

Introduction to GenAI System Design

Explore generative AI System Design, merging DML, and System Design principles for creating GenAI applications.
2.

Fundamental Concepts in GenAI

Master foundational concepts, evaluation metrics, and optimization techniques for Generative AI systems.
3.

Back-of-the-envelope Calculations

Understand back-of-the-envelope calculations for efficiently planning LLM training and deployment.
4.

Systematic Framework for Designing GenAI Systems

Explore how to prepare for a GenAI System Design interview and learn a systematic 6-step framework for designing impactful GenAI systems.
5.

System Design of a Text-to-Text Generation System

Explore the training and deployment System Design of an efficient conversational AI system.
6.

System Design of a Text-to-Image Generation System

2 Lessons

Explore the training and deployment System Design of a robust image generation system.
7.

System Design of a Text-to-Speech Generation System

2 Lessons

Explore the training and deployment System Design of a realistic speech generation system.
8.

System Design of a Text-to-Video Generation System

2 Lessons

Explore the training and deployment System Design of a text-to-video generation system.
9.

System Design of an Image Captioning System

2 Lessons

Explore the training and deployment System Design of an image captioning system.
10.

Conclusion

1 Lesson

Understand key takeaways from the GenAI System Design course and explore the next steps.
11.

Free GenAI System Design Lessons

9 Lessons

Learn core GenAI system design concepts, from model training and sampling to multimodal, diffusion, audio, and hardware choices in real-world AI systems.

Course Author

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Anthony Walker

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Emma Bostian 🐞

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Evan Dunbar

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Carlos Matias La Borde

Software Developer

Souvik Kundu

Front-end Developer

Vinay Krishnaiah

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Eric Downs

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Kenan Eyvazov

DevOps Engineer

Anthony Walker

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Emma Bostian 🐞

@EmmaBostian

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