24 October 2026
Free eight-video course teaches building reasoning AI models from scratch
First reported
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- Ahead of AI released a free course of eight videos, about 11 hours total.
- The videos build reasoning methods on top of Qwen3, a pre-trained model, using PyTorch code.
- Topics include evaluating models, scaling up inference, reinforcement learning, and distillation.
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Only Ahead of AI, one of 30 tracked newsletters, covered this free course. It follows the 2026-10-18 story on a free open-source course for building coding agents, which was also a self-study course on building AI systems.
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Ahead of AISebastian Raschka
Course structure, setup and hardware, Qwen3 text generation, KV caching, math answer verification, RL and distillation, and companion book links