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watsonx.ai: RAG and LangChain
In this course, you learn how watsonx.ai might help you to put AI to work in your business. You explore the foundation models supported in watsonx.ai and improve your prompt engineering skills. You...
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$950 USD
Duration
7 hours
Course Code
W7L171G
Available Formats
Classroom, Virtual
Overview
In this course, you learn how watsonx.ai might help you to put AI to work in your business. You explore the foundation models supported in watsonx.ai and improve your prompt engineering skills. You experiment with prompt tuning and seek to understand when to use it over prompt engineering. You explore the LangChain framework that helps you build AI applications based on foundation models. Lastly, you solve several use cases, such as RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) and summarization. The course has a large practical component with hands-on exercises on prompt engineering, prompt tuning, and the solving of several use cases with the tools and techniques described in this course.
Skills Gained
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Differentiate between the various foundation models available in the Prompt Lab.
- Demonstrate the benefits of prompt tuning over prompt engineering.
- Describe the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture and use case.
- Implement Jupyter Notebooks with Python code calling the Watson Machine Learning API to solve Generative AI problems,
- Experiment with the LangChain framework.
- Solve RAG, classification and text generation use cases.
Who Can Benefit
This course is intended for Data Scientists, AI Specialists, watsonx Specialists, Solution Architects, or anyone interested in gaining basic knowledge of foundation models and generative AI with IBM watsonx.ai.
Prerequisites
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Course Details
Course Outline
- Introduction
- Foundation Models
- Prompt Engineering versus Prompt Tuning
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
- The LangChain Framework
- Review and Evaluation
Schedule
4 options available
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Jun 13, 2025 - Jun 13, 2025 (1 day)
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Jul 21, 2025 - Jul 21, 2025 (1 day)
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Sep 22, 2025 - Sep 22, 2025 (1 day)
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Nov 17, 2025 - Nov 17, 2025 (1 day)
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Fantastic and great training. Tons of hands-on labs to really make you understand the material being thought.
Instructor was great, course was mostly very good except for too much focus on pricing
Courseware was effective but would like to have some PDF material on BPML and XPATH
Great class I learned a great deal from the material. There would seem to a large amount that I need to learn about.
Brandon was a great instructor. The virtual course materials and labs provided were very informative.
