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Edge AI and On-Device Intelligence

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A premium, hands-on course on Edge AI and on-device intelligence, updated for 2026. You will learn why intelligence is moving off the cloud and onto phones, microcontrollers, wearables and industrial gateways — driven by latency, cost, privacy and offline reliability — and how to actually ship it. You will master model compression (post-training and quantization-aware quantization, pruning and sparsity, knowledge distillation), the real runtimes (LiteRT / TensorFlow Lite, ONNX Runtime, Core ML, ExecuTorch, MediaPipe and llama.cpp), and mobile deployment on both Android and iOS. You will go all the way down to TinyML on microcontrollers, understand the edge hardware landscape (NPUs, Google Coral, NVIDIA Jetson), and run small language models such as Gemma, Phi and small Llama models directly on device. The course covers on-device inference optimization, privacy-first design and federated learning, over-the-air model updates, and edge monitoring, with real case studies across mobile, IoT and wearables. Every concept is paired with real, correct code, and privacy-by-design and GDPR obligations are treated as first-class engineering concerns. Includes a comprehensive final assessment.

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30 lessons
~25h duration
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What you will learn

Practical skills you gain by completing this course

Foundations: What Edge AI Is and Why It Matters in 2026
Model Compression: Making Models Fit the Edge
Edge AI Frameworks and Runtimes
Mobile AI: iOS and Android
TinyML and Microcontrollers
NPUs, Accelerators, and Edge Hardware
Small Language Models On-Device
Privacy-First Design and Federated Learning
Deployment, OTA Updates, and Monitoring
Final Quiz — Edge AI and On-Device Intelligence

Who it is for

Developers Software engineers Solution architects CTOs / Tech Leads Data Scientists ML Engineers DevOps Engineers

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Advanced

Assumes hands-on experience with AI and complex scenarios.

Updates

Regular

Last update: Aug 8, 2026. Content kept up to date.

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IT & Engineering

A technical course for IT professionals — available with individual course access or the IT Pro / All Access bundle.

Advanced level

Hands-on experience required

Assumes practical experience with AI. Covers complex scenarios and advanced strategies.

Always up to date

Last update: Aug 8, 2026

The course is updated regularly with the latest information, tools and practices from the industry.

Practical and applied

30 lessons with real examples

Each lesson includes practical scenarios, actionable checklists and quizzes to check your understanding.

Curriculum

10 modules, 30 lessons — structured to learn step by step.

10 modules
30 lessons
~25h of content
Interactive quizzes
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1 Free preview lesson Why Edge AI Now in 2026
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2 On-Device vs Cloud: The Real Tradeoffs
50 min
3 Hybrid Edge–Cloud Architectures and Fallback Design
50 min
4 Privacy-by-Design and the Legal Case for Edge
50 min
1 Quantization: From FP32 to INT8 and Below
50 min
2 Advanced Quantization: INT4, Mixed Precision, and QAT at Low Bits
50 min
3 Pruning and Sparsity
50 min
4 Knowledge Distillation
50 min
1 LiteRT and the TensorFlow Lite Lineage
50 min
2 ONNX Runtime: Portable Cross-Framework Inference
50 min
3 Core ML, ExecuTorch, and MediaPipe
50 min
1 On-Device AI on Android
50 min
2 On-Device AI on iOS
50 min
3 Mobile AI Performance and UX Patterns
50 min
1 TinyML Fundamentals
50 min
2 Deploying Models on Microcontrollers
50 min
3 Embedded Vision and Audio Intelligence at the Edge
50 min
1 The Edge Hardware Landscape: NPUs, Coral, and Jetson
50 min
2 Optimizing Inference for Accelerators
50 min
3 Benchmarking and Profiling Edge AI Workloads
50 min
1 Small Language Models: Gemma, Phi, and Llama on Device
50 min
2 Running SLMs with llama.cpp and Quantized Formats
50 min
3 On-Device LLM Inference Optimization
50 min
1 Federated Learning
50 min
2 Differential Privacy and On-Device Model Security
50 min
1 Packaging and Over-the-Air Model Updates
50 min
2 Monitoring and Observability on the Edge
50 min
3 Safety-Critical Edge AI: Automotive, Medical, and Industrial
50 min
4 Case Studies: Mobile, IoT, and Wearables
50 min
1 Final Assessment — Edge AI and On-Device Intelligence
55 min
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