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The Big Book of Generative AI
GenAI is moving so fast, it’s not easy to find the latest thinking and code snippets.
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- Databricks
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- AI Strategy & Governance
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- 5 Aug 2026
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How to successfully build GenAI applications
GenAI is moving so fast, it’s not easy to find the latest thinking and code snippets.
The Big Book of Generative AI brings together best practices and know-how for building production-quality GenAI applications. You’ll find technical content and code samples that will help you do everything from deploying your first application to building your own custom large language model trained on your data.
Download the eBook now to learn:
- How to build a retrieval augmented generation (RAG) application like a chatbot
- How to fine-tune a foundation model
- How to train your own foundation model from scratch
- Evaluation and monitoring of LLMs to ensure integrity and reliability of the AI application
- The different generative AI architectural patterns
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