Agents Week 2026 | Лекция 1.1 Intro to AI Agents LLM

Speaker: Alena Zaytseva, Head of AI Services at Yandex Lavka, which develops client-side and internal AI agents, as well as a platform for them. In the lecture: We'll explain how the intensive course is structured; We'll delve into agents: the scenarios in which they can be used, and the evolution of human interaction and LLM; We'll move on to LLM: We'll define LLM, explain weights and Next-Token Prediction, and explore how LLMs learn and what they're particularly good at; We'll build a simple agent in practice. Link to materials: https://disk.yandex.ru/d/8nYIIjvHglHYYQ Learn more about the School of Data Analysis on the website: https://shad.yandex.ru/