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Generative AI for Everyone

By Andrew Ng Posted: Aug 24, 2026

Course Details

Pricing Freemium
Offered By DeepLearning.Ai
Difficulty Beginner
Duration 5h 1m
Language English
Certificate None

Course Curriculum & Description

Generative AI for Everyone is an introductory course designed to help learners understand and practically use generative AI. Taught by AI educator and DeepLearning.AI founder Andrew Ng, the course covers the fundamentals of generative AI, common applications, effective prompting, and ways to move beyond basic prompting toward more advanced uses.

The course combines conceptual explanations with hands-on exercises, allowing learners to experiment with generative AI tools and apply them to everyday work. It also explores the broader implications of generative AI for businesses, professionals, and society.

Course Outline

Module 1: What Is Generative AI?

  1. Introduction to generative AI
  2. How generative AI works
  3. What generative AI can and cannot do
  4. Understanding modern AI capabilities

Module 2: Generative AI Tools

  1. Overview of commonly used generative AI tools
  2. Practical applications of AI tools
  3. Using generative AI in everyday work

Module 3: Prompt Engineering

  1. Fundamentals of effective prompting
  2. Improving prompts for better results
  3. Practical prompting exercises
  4. Working effectively with AI systems

Module 4: Beyond Prompting

  1. Moving beyond basic prompting
  2. More advanced applications of generative AI
  3. Applying AI to practical workflows

Module 5: Generative AI Applications

  1. Real-world use cases
  2. Generative AI for professionals
  3. Generative AI for business
  4. Productivity applications

Module 6: AI Strategy and Business

  1. AI strategy for work and business
  2. Opportunities created by generative AI
  3. Developing effective AI approaches
  4. Organizational adoption

Module 7: Generative AI and Society

  1. Impact of generative AI on society
  2. Opportunities and challenges
  3. Preparing for an AI-powered future

What You Will Learn

  • Generative AI tools
  • How generative AI works
  • AI productivity
  • Prompt engineering
  • AI beyond prompting
  • AI strategy
  • AI strategy for work and business
  • Real-world generative AI applications
  • Understanding the impact of generative AI

Course Prerequisites

No coding skills or prior knowledge of AI required.

Course Highlights

Taught by Andrew Ng
Beginner-friendly
Approximately 5 hours 1 minute
Hands-on generative AI exercises
Practical prompt engineering guidance
Real-world AI use cases
Covers business and societal impacts
Designed for business leaders, professionals and general learners
Certificate available through DeepLearning.AI PRO
Also available through Coursera

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Associated AI Tools

Gemini AI

Gemini AI is Google's family of generative AI models and the AI assistant available through the Gemini app. It can understand and work with text, images, files, audio, video, and code, helping users with writing, research, learning, analysis, brainstorming, coding, and creative tasks. Gemini also connects with Google products and services to support everyday productivity.Uses of Gemini AIGemini AI can help users write emails, articles, social media posts, summaries, presentations, study notes, and other types of content. It can also analyze uploaded documents and images, answer questions, explain difficult topics, brainstorm ideas, translate content, and assist with coding and software development. Its multimodal capabilities allow users to work with different types of information in one conversation.Gemini is also useful for research and productivity. Users can use features such as Deep Research, connect Gemini with supported Google apps, create reports, generate and edit images, and create AI-generated video through Google's video-generation tools. Depending on the plan and region, Gemini can also provide access to additional AI models and higher usage limits.Gemini AI Models & Sub-ModelsGemini 3.8 Flash is Google's latest high-performance Flash model, designed for complex agentic tasks at scale. It focuses on combining strong reasoning with speed and efficient execution, making it suitable for coding, automation, research, and AI agents.Gemini 3.7 Flash is a powerful workhorse model designed for coding, reasoning, and agent-based workflows. It is particularly useful when applications need a balance between intelligence, speed, and cost efficiency.Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is designed for high-volume tasks where speed and efficiency are important. It is suitable for everyday AI workloads such as summarization, classification, content processing, and other tasks that need fast responses.Gemini 3.1 Pro is designed for more complex tasks that require stronger reasoning and deeper understanding. It can work across text, files, images, and video and is useful for advanced coding, research, problem-solving, and creative work.Gemini 3.1 Deep Think is a specialized reasoning model designed for difficult scientific, research, engineering, and mathematical problems. It provides deeper reasoning capabilities for challenges that require more complex problem-solving.Gemini Omni Flash is Google's newer multimodal model family focused on real-world reasoning and generative creation. It supports creative workflows and video-generation capabilities and is available through Gemini and Google AI Studio depending on access and region.Gemini Flash-Lite is an efficient model designed for speed and everyday tasks such as summarization and brainstorming. Gemini Flash provides a stronger balance between speed and reasoning, while Gemini Pro is designed for more advanced tasks involving complex reasoning, mathematics, coding, files, images, and video.Gemini Deep Research is an AI research feature that can investigate a topic, gather information, and create detailed research reports. It is useful for market research, academic research, business analysis, competitive research, and other information-heavy tasks.Gemini Image Models include Google's image-generation and editing models, including the Nano Banana family and Gemini image models. These can be used to create, modify, and refine visual content from natural-language instructions.Veo is Google's generative video model family used for AI video creation. Current Google AI offerings include Veo 3.1 and related video-generation capabilities through Gemini and Google Flow, depending on the user's plan and region.PricingGemini AI has a Free access option with standard usage limits. Google also offers Google AI Plus, Google AI Pro, and Google AI Ultra plans that provide higher usage limits and expanded access to advanced Gemini models and features. The exact limits and available features can vary by country and can change over time.Free: Yes, standard Gemini accessPaid: Yes, Google AI Plus, Pro, and UltraFree Trial: Availability varies by plan, promotion, and regionBest Use CasesGemini AI is best suited for students, professionals, marketers, writers, developers, researchers, business teams, educators, and everyday users who want one AI assistant for a wide range of tasks. It can be used for content creation, research, coding, studying, document analysis, brainstorming, business reports, image creation, video generation, data analysis, and productivity. Its ability to work across text, images, files, audio, video, and Google's wider ecosystem makes Gemini especially useful for people who already use Google Workspace and other Google services.
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Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft Copilot is Microsoft's AI assistant for everyday work, learning, creativity, research, and productivity. It can answer questions, generate and improve content, analyze information, create images, summarize material, and help users complete tasks. Copilot is available through the web, mobile devices, Microsoft Edge, and Microsoft 365 apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. (microsoft.com)Uses of Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft Copilot can help users write emails, documents, presentations, reports, social media content, and other material. It can summarize information, answer questions, brainstorm ideas, analyze data, create images, assist with coding, and provide research support. In Microsoft 365, Copilot can work directly inside familiar applications, helping users complete tasks without constantly switching between different tools. (microsoft.com)For businesses, Copilot can connect AI assistance with company information and workplace applications. Microsoft 365 Copilot uses Work IQ to understand relevant work context, while Copilot Chat provides web-grounded AI assistance. Businesses can also use agents to automate repetitive tasks, search across connected business data, and support workflows. (microsoft.com)Microsoft Copilot Models & Sub-ModelsCopilot Chat is the general AI chat experience for asking questions, generating content, researching topics, and working with web information. It uses Microsoft's model-routing system to select an appropriate AI model based on the user's request. (learn.microsoft.com)Quick Response is Copilot's faster response mode for everyday questions and routine tasks. Copilot's real-time router can choose a high-throughput model when a request does not require deeper reasoning, helping provide quicker answers. (learn.microsoft.com)Think Deeper is Copilot's deeper reasoning mode for complex questions and open-ended tasks. It gives the underlying reasoning model more time to plan, understand context, and check its work before producing an answer. (learn.microsoft.com)Latest OpenAI Models power current Microsoft 365 Copilot experiences. Microsoft's business plans currently provide access to the latest OpenAI models, including GPT-5.x models, with model selection and priority access depending on the plan. (microsoft.com)Microsoft 365 Copilot brings AI directly into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 applications. It can use work context and organizational information to help draft documents, analyze spreadsheets, create presentations, summarize communications, and support workplace tasks. (microsoft.com)Work IQ is Microsoft's workplace intelligence layer for Copilot. It connects relevant information about a user's work, organization, applications, data, and tasks so Copilot can provide more context-aware assistance. (microsoft.com)Copilot Cowork helps users delegate more complex, multi-step projects to AI. It is designed to work with business context and connected applications so users can hand off larger tasks while continuing to manage multiple projects. (microsoft.com)Copilot Agents are specialized AI assistants that can perform specific tasks or workflows. Organizations can use ready-made agents or create their own agents with Copilot Studio, allowing AI to work with business information and automate repetitive processes. (microsoft.com)Copilot Studio is Microsoft's platform for creating custom AI agents and workflows. Businesses can build autonomous agents, connect them to company data, and deploy them across websites, applications, and other channels. (microsoft.com)PricingMicrosoft Copilot has free access for general AI chat, while expanded Copilot capabilities are included with Microsoft 365 subscription plans. In India, Microsoft 365 Personal costs ₹689/month or ₹6,899/year, while Microsoft 365 Family costs ₹819/month or ₹8,199/year. Microsoft 365 Premium costs ₹1,999/month or ₹19,999/year and includes higher AI usage and advanced Copilot features. (microsoft.com)For businesses, Microsoft 365 Copilot Business starts at ₹1,495.73/user/month when paid yearly under the current promotional pricing, while Microsoft 365 Copilot for enterprise is ₹2,495/user/month when paid yearly. Eligible business plans can also try Copilot through available trial offers. (microsoft.com)Free: Yes, Copilot ChatPaid: Yes — Microsoft 365 Personal, Family, Premium, Business, and Enterprise optionsFree Trial: Available for selected Microsoft 365 Copilot plansBest Use CasesMicrosoft Copilot is best suited for students, professionals, writers, marketers, developers, researchers, educators, entrepreneurs, and businesses already using Microsoft's ecosystem. It can be used for writing, research, presentations, spreadsheet analysis, email management, image creation, coding, meeting and document summaries, business intelligence, workflow automation, and AI-powered workplace assistance. Its strongest advantage is its integration with Microsoft 365, allowing users to combine generative AI with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, company data, and custom AI agents in one connected productivity environment. (microsoft.com)
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