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IBM RAG and Agentic AI Professional Certificate
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IBM RAG and Agentic AI Professional Certificate

Build real-world AI with RAG and agentic AI. Use AI tools to streamline automation, drive innovation & take your career further, faster.

IBM Skills Network Team
Wojciech 'Victor' Fulmyk

Instructors: IBM Skills Network Team

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What you'll learn

  • Build the  job-aligned GenAI skills and hands-on experience to create RAG, multimodal, and agentic AI applications employers need in just 3 months

  • Learn to design and chain AI tools with LangChain for modular, reusable gen AI workflows

  • Implement function calling, RAG, and vector stores to build intelligent, context-aware applications

  • Create autonomous AI agents using LangGraph, CrewAI, and AG2 for real-world impact

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What you'll learn

  • Master the basics of GenAI and the LangChain framework, focusing on how prompt engineering and in-context learning to enhance AI interactions

  • Apply prompt templates, chains, and agents to create flexible and context-aware AI applications using LangChain's modular approach

  • Develop a GenAI web application with Flask, integrating advanced features such as JSON output parsing for structured AI responses

  • Evaluate and compare different language models to select the most suitable for specific use cases, ensuring optimal performance and reliability

What you'll learn

  • Develop a practical understanding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

  • Design user-friendly, interactive interfaces for RAG applications using Gradio

  • Learn about LlamaIndex, its uses in building RAG applications, and how it contrasts with LangChain

  • Build RAG applications using LangChain and LlamaIndex using Python

Skills you'll gain

Category: Web development

What you'll learn

  • Differentiate between vector databases and traditional databases based on their functionality and use cases

  • Execute fundamental database operations in ChromaDB, including updating, deleting, and managing collections

  • Understand and apply similarity search techniques, both manually and with ChromaDB, and develop recommendation systems using these techniques

  • Develop a thorough and comprehensive understanding of key internal mechanisms within RAG

What you'll learn

  • Differentiate between various retrieval patterns and assess their effectiveness in RAG applications 

  • Implement advanced retrievers and FAISS to optimize information retrieval and similarity search 

  • Design a comprehensive RAG application by integrating LangChain, FAISS, and a front-end UI using Gradio

  • Evaluate retrieval strategies and refine AI-driven search capabilities for improved performance

What you'll learn

  • Build the job-ready skills you need to build multimodal generative AI applications in just 3 weeks

  • Understand the fundamental concepts and challenges in multimodal AI, including the integration of text, speech, images, and video

  • Build multimodal AI applications using state-of-the-art models and frameworks such as IBM’s Granite, Meta’s Llama, OpenAI’s Whisper, DALL·E and Sora

  • Develop multimodal AI solutions, including chatbots and image/video generation models, using IBM watsonx.ai, Hugging Face, Flask and Gradio

What you'll learn

  • Implement function calling and chaining to create structured AI workflows 

  • Develop AI agents that manually invoke tools for greater control over execution and reliability 

  • Utilize built-in LangChain agents to analyze data, generate visualizations, and execute database queries 

  • Apply best practices in prompt engineering and tool orchestration to enhance AI agent performance

What you'll learn

  • Master the fundamentals of LangGraph for building stateful, intelligent AI agents 

  • Design and implement self-improving agents using Reflection Agents, Reflexion Agents, and ReACT Agents

  • Build and orchestrate multi-agent systems using Agentic RAG architectures 

What you'll learn

  • Analyze foundational AI design patterns to evaluate their effectiveness in structuring scalable AI workflows 

  • Construct multi-agent systems using CrewAI by configuring agents and tasks 

  • Develop AI-driven applications using BeeAI and AutoGen

  • Design optimized AI solutions by combining appropriate frameworks and design patterns

Instructors

IBM Skills Network Team
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Wojciech 'Victor' Fulmyk
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