CME 295 starts with how a model reads text and goes all the way to training, reasoning models, agents and how to test them. Last year's run is online in full: 9 lectures, each close to two hours. The first one has nearly a million views.
The slides, the midterm and the final with solutions are on the course site, along with a free illustrated cheatsheet. Afshine and Shervine Amidi teach it.
This fall's version is running now and posts its recordings as it goes. Five lectures are up. Still to come: AI agents with MCP and skills, how to judge a model, and diffusion language models, a different way of generating text.