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IBM Generative AI Engineering Professional Certificate is a paid beginner course from IBM, online. It's a paid subscription; the price is not recorded yet. It ends with a professional certificate.
Suits newcomers who want a long, code-based route to building LLM applications, from Python basics up to RAG and agents. IBM rates it beginner, and the programme has an ACE credit recommendation for participating US colleges. The main caveat is time and cost: Coursera estimates 6 months at 6 hours a week, it needs a subscription and the page shows no price. A free alternative is the LLM Course from Hugging Face Learn.
IBM's 16-course Professional Certificate on Coursera, from AI and generative AI basics, prompt engineering and Python data analysis through machine learning and deep learning to transformers, LLMs, fine-tuning, RAG and LangChain. It ends with a guided project to build a generative AI application.
More courses on prompt engineering and on machine learning.
Developers and engineers, Data scientists and analysts, Students and career changers.
Level: beginner (as stated by the provider). Delivery: online, self-paced.
No prior experience required
Paid subscription. Price not recorded yet. Coursera subscription; financial aid available.
Certificate: professional certificate. IBM Professional Certificate (Coursera).
IBM, based in the US, offers this course worldwide, so learners in Ireland join the same course as everyone else. Details last confirmed on 26 Oct 2026.
No Irish scheme on our funding list (Springboard+, Skillnet Ireland, HEA Micro-Credential Learner Fee Subsidy 2026 and others) covers its cost.
Irish courses for developers and engineers on a shared topic: AIReady.ie national AI skills platform (SOLAS / Department of Further and Higher Education), Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (micro-credential) (Chevron Training and Recruitment (with University of East London)), Future of Artificial Intelligence (Micro-credential) (University of Galway).
See also: funded AI training in Ireland, AI courses for developers and engineers.
Paid subscription. Price not recorded yet.
Yes: professional certificate. The provider calls it "IBM Professional Certificate (Coursera)".
It's a beginner course. Prerequisites: No prior experience required.
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| Introduction to Generative AIGoogle | Online, self-paced | Free | Beginner | Under 1 | Free badge |
| Generative AI for ExecutivesAWS Skill Builder | Online, self-paced | Free | Beginner | Under 1 | Certificate not stated |
| Introduction to Generative AI - Art of the PossibleAWS Skill Builder | Online, self-paced | Free | Beginner | 1 | Certificate not stated |
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