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In this course, you'll dive deep into the world of multi-agent systems, mastering AutoGen, and understanding how these agents interact in real-time. Starting with a solid foundation on setting up your development environment, you'll gain expertise in creating, configuring, and deploying agents within AutoGen. By working through hands-on activities, you'll build agents from the ground up, create multi-agent conversations, and explore the integration of human feedback. You will also learn how to design, deploy, and optimize real-world agent applications such as customer service automation and research paper writing.
Through this course, you will explore AutoGen's key building blocks, its various agent types, and conversation patterns that will allow you to build sophisticated, real-time agent-based systems. Practical use cases will guide you in applying these concepts to real-world challenges, making your learning experience immediately applicable.
This course is ideal for anyone looking to understand multi-agent systems, the AutoGen framework, and how to use them to create meaningful interactions. With no prior experience required, it’s an accessible starting point for anyone interested in the field of artificial intelligence and multi-agent development.
Status: Generative AI Agents
Generative AI Agents
Status: Software Development Tools
Software Development Tools
Intermediate·Course·7 hours
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5.0·Reviewed Mar 28, 2026
excellent course with practical application and code showcased.
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4.0·Reviewed May 22, 2025
The course is detailed and high quality, but unfortunately, it's outdated due to the latest version of Autogen. However, it's still useful for building a solid foundational understanding.
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Caleb Leak
2.0
·Reviewed Jul 21, 2025
Mostly worthless. There's very little explanation and lot of just browsing incomplete code (videos are so zoomed in you literally can't see the complete code). The instructor doesn't give deep explanations most of the time, leaving it at "now we'll use class X instead of Y" with 0 reasons given for why.
The examples are extremely bad. There's no motivation given for most of them as to why multiple agents are any better than a single agent (likely there's no advantage for the examples chosen). Some of the examples are also broken, with the prompts being so vague that the models don't know who's the user and who's the assistant - and them both choosing to be the assistant.
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Anđela Radojević
4.0
·Reviewed May 22, 2025
The course is detailed and high quality, but unfortunately, it's outdated due to the latest version of Autogen. However, it's still useful for building a solid foundational understanding.
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Joao Azevedo
5.0
·Reviewed Feb 9, 2025
The Mastering Multi-Agent Development with AutoGen course is a well-structured and comprehensive program for AI practitioners, developers, and AI automation enthusiasts.
It effectively balances theoretical knowledge with hands-on implementation, making it suitable for both beginners and experienced professionals.
The focus on structured conversations, cost efficiency, security, and advanced AI automation makes this a must-attend course for those looking to master multi-agent systems with AutoGen.
Highly recommended for anyone interested in multi-agent AI development and automation.
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Abhijit Sen
5.0
·Reviewed Mar 28, 2026
excellent course with practical application and code showcased.
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Parth Verma
5.0
·Reviewed Nov 7, 2025
Great learning experience
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Krishan Baldev Sona
5.0
·Reviewed Oct 29, 2025
great learning experience
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Tv Vishnuprasad
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 27, 2026
Good Course
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Akshay Ganesh
5.0
·Reviewed Mar 28, 2026
Excellent
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Naveen Kumar S
5.0
·Reviewed Oct 21, 2025
good
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Mahesh Kuraba
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 29, 2025
Good
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Thoviti Siddharth
4.0
·Reviewed Jun 11, 2025
The course introduces Agents, and AutoGen concepts clearly. The instructor walks us through the concepts with hands-on material/use-cases that cover various conversation patterns. Overall, pretty happy with the course as an introduction to the AutoGen Agentic Framework.
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Harishkumar K P
4.0
·Reviewed Dec 8, 2025
Nothing
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Robert van Raamsdonk
3.0
·Reviewed Jul 20, 2025
Having taken several other courses on Autogen, I found this course valuable although confusing on occasion. Especially when getting into the complex patterns (groupchat, nested chat), the presenter seemed to wing it while explaining the output, glossing over inconsistencies and not catching errors in the output. Also the method of initiating chats in code was inconsistent: in a group chat, why would you initiate on an assistant agent rather than on the group manager? Also i found some of the diagrams less than helpful. Lastlly, some exam questions were just strange, quizzing on example code aspects instead of general concepts and understanding. Overall, a mixed bag.
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Parisa Towfighi
3.0
·Reviewed Sep 4, 2025
The course started out well, especially in showing how to set up AutoGen. However, as the lectures went on, they became less engaging. The videos don’t include a human presence, and the text on screen moves too quickly, which makes it difficult to follow and even a bit dizzying at times. The monotone voice also makes it hard to stay awake.
