About the instructor
I left a $100K/year jobto teach AI the way it's actually built.
I'm Laxmi Kant Tiwari — IIT Kharagpur alumnus, startup founder, and the creator of KGP Talkie. After 10+ years building AI systems in industry and academia, I walked away from a comfortable career to do one thing full time: teach production-grade generative AI to anyone willing to write the code.
200K+
Learners worldwide
10+ yrs
Industry & academia
4.8★
Instructor rating
850+
1:1 sessions delivered
Why I walked away
The job was good. Six figures, interesting problems, a clear ladder. But every week I watched smart engineers struggle with the same gap: they could follow a tutorial, yet they couldn't ship. Nothing they found online taught the part that matters — what breaks at scale, what production actually demands, and how real AI products get built and sold.
I knew that gap personally. I had spent a decade on both sides of it — publishing research in academia and shipping systems in industry. I had founded a startup, taken it to a successful exit, and learned the hard way what separates a working demo from a product people pay for. That knowledge was too useful to keep inside one company.
So I left, and went all in on KGP Talkie. Today more than 200,000 learners use my tutorials, courses, and videos to make the same jump — from following along to shipping their own RAG systems, AI agents, and machine learning products.
Why learn from me
I ship production systems, then I teach them
Most GenAI courses stop at the demo. Mine start where the demo ends — deployment, evaluation, cost control, and the failure modes you only meet in production. RAG pipelines, multi-agent graphs, MCP servers, fine-tuned models: everything I teach has run in the real world first.
Founder, not just instructor
I built a startup, grew it, and sold it. I know what it takes to turn a model into a product that customers pay for — and I bake that thinking into every tutorial and course.
A decade across industry and academia
Ten-plus years split between research and engineering means I can explain why something works, not just how to copy the code. You get the theory exactly when you need it — and never as a substitute for working software.
Code-first, always free to start
Every concept comes with runnable code, real datasets, and honest output — including the errors. 90+ written tutorials and two YouTube channels are free. The paid courses exist for people who want the full structured path.
Learn with me
Start free on YouTube, go deeper with the written tutorials, or take the full structured path on Udemy. If you want direct help, book a 1:1 session.