MSc Applied AI Systems

Artificial Intelligence · Live · v0

Applied AI systems end to end — mathematical foundations, model architectures, training, and production deployment.

Path type: Artificial Intelligence
Requirements: Open entry
Enrollment: €9.95
Deadline: Next cohort starts 2027-09-06 (AY 2027/28)
Length: ~1 year · 42 phases
Language: English · Español
Content freshness: Curriculum updated 2026-09-02 · content rev b98d9504
Cortex Credits (CC): 126 CC
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Syllabus: View the phase syllabus

Foundations

Hardware & Computing Substrate

Numerical Representation

Linear Algebra from First Principles

Calculus & Optimization for AI

Probability & Information Theory

Python for AI Engineering

Scalar Autograd from Scratch (minigrad.scalar)

Tensor Autograd from Scratch

MLP, Modules, and Optimizers

Initialization, Normalization, Residuals

Tokenization Theory + BPE Implementation

The Corpus: Designing the Microscopic Dataset

Embeddings & Representation Spaces

Pre-Transformer Sequence Models

Attention from Scratch

Positional Encodings

Tiny Transformer Block & Mini-GPT

Training Loop, Checkpointing, Mixed-Precision Preview

Training Dynamics & Debugging

Evaluation Harness

Inference Internals & Sampling

KV Cache: From Math to Memory

GPU Architecture Fundamentals

CUDA & Triton Hands-On

PyTorch Internals

Quantization Deep Dive

Modern Attention Optimizations

Fine-Tuning, LoRA, QLoRA

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Structured Generation & Constrained Decoding

Tool Use & the Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Agents: Planning, Memory, Sandboxing (Capstone Application)

Inference Serving: From FastAPI to Continuous Batching

Observability, Cost & Capacity

Distributed Training & Inference

Frontier Architectures

Security & Safety of AI Systems

MLOps

Capstone: The Miniature Production System

Hardening, Postmortem, "What's Next"

Learner Portal: Delivering the Curriculum to Many

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What changed

Every release of this programme, newest first.

v0 Pilot 2026-07-18 Wave A backfill: v0 pilot baseline

Professor: Vacancy available