AI app development with open models | Sri AI

Course overview

Putting a self-hosted model inside real software (websites, mobile back-ends and school systems) through a local API.

Level: Intermediate  ·  Mode: Evenings, online

Who this course is for

Web and mobile developers adding AI features.

What you will learn

• Call a local model through an OpenAI-compatible API
• Get reliable structured output
• Use function calling
• Build a streaming chat interface

Syllabus

1. Module 1: Local model APIs
2. Module 2: Prompting inside apps
3. Module 3: Structured JSON output
4. Module 4: Function and tool calling
5. Module 5: Streaming interfaces
6. Module 6: Integrating with PHP, Node and Python

Final project

Every module ends in hands-on practice, and the course ends with a project you build and present. Your certificate names that project.

Before you start

Run your own AI and Python for AI.

Open-source tools you will use

• Generative AI for Beginners
• Ollama

Adapts Microsoft's Generative AI for Beginners (MIT), rewritten for self-hosted models.