All 18 videos of Microsoft’s free Generative AI for Beginners course, split into one Saturday and one Sunday

The companion to the reel. Microsoft's free course 'Generative AI for Beginners' has 21 lessons and 18 videos, 4 hours 20 minutes of video in total. PAGE 1 — what the course is, the totals (Saturday 2h 15m, Sunday 2h 05m) and the catch up front: the code labs need an API key. PAGE 2 — Saturday: the 9 Learn videos in four blocks, each with its exact length, what you get from it and the video link. PAGE 3 — Sunday: the 9 Build videos (text app, chat app, search, images, low-code, function calling, RAG, open models, AI agents). PAGE 4 — your options for running the code, from reading it for $0 to an Azure or OpenAI key, plus lessons 19–21 and a one-afternoon short cut. PAGE 5 — what to do after the weekend. Lesson list from the course README and video lengths from Microsoft Learn, checked October 4, 2026. Independent guide from Hyperautomation Labs — not affiliated with Microsoft.

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