Build Your Own AI

Build Your Own AI

This is the companion web edition of Build Your Own AI by Pranav Deshpande.

This book is for software developers, tinkerers, and curious minds who want to truly understand how modern AI works - from training foundational models and building agentic systems, to interpretability, model compression, and cutting-edge research.

What you'll find here

• 26 chapters covering the full landscape of modern AI
• Practical exercises at the end of every chapter
• Per-chapter references so you can dive deeper into any topic
• Companion Jupyter notebooks with runnable code

Get the PDF

The complete book is also available as a PDF download.

About the author

Pranav Deshpande is a software developer & research scientist. His interests include deep learning/AI, cybersecurity, finance and video games. He works at Global Technology Applied Research, JPMorganChase, conducting cutting-edge cross-domain research across deep learning and high performance computing. He holds multiple patents from the USPTO and has co-authored various research papers at leading academic/industry conferences.

Citing this book

If you use or reference this book in your work, please cite it as:

Deshpande, P. (2026). Build Your Own AI. Available at https://pranavdeshpande.com/books/build-your-own-ai/

BibTeX:

@book{deshpande2026buildyourownai,
  title     = {Build Your Own AI},
  author    = {Deshpande, Pranav},
  year      = {2026},
  url       = {https://pranavdeshpande.com/books/build-your-own-ai/}
}