Buy New
-
To see product details, add this item to your cart.
Ships from: Amazon.com Sold by: Amazon.com
Used - Like New
-
To see product details, add this item to your cart.
FREE Returns
Return this item for free
We offer easy, convenient returns with at least one free return option: no shipping charges. All returns must comply with our returns policy.
Learn more about free returns. How to return the item? - Go to your orders and start the return
- Select your preferred free shipping option
- Drop off and leave!
Ships from: Amazon Sold by: Leaves & Streams
Return this item for free
We offer easy, convenient returns with at least one free return option: no shipping charges. All returns must comply with our returns policy.
Learn more about free returns.- Go to your orders and start the return
- Select your preferred free shipping option
- Drop off and leave!
Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.
Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web.
Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app.
Follow the author
OK
AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models
Purchase options and add-ons
Recent breakthroughs in AI have not only increased demand for AI products, they've also lowered the barriers to entry for those who want to build AI products. The model-as-a-service approach has transformed AI from an esoteric discipline into a powerful development tool that anyone can use. Everyone, including those with minimal or no prior AI experience, can now leverage AI models to build applications. In this book, author Chip Huyen discusses AI engineering: the process of building applications with readily available foundation models.
The book starts with an overview of AI engineering, explaining how it differs from traditional ML engineering and discussing the new AI stack. The more AI is used, the more opportunities there are for catastrophic failures, and therefore, the more important evaluation becomes. This book discusses different approaches to evaluating open-ended models, including the rapidly growing AI-as-a-judge approach.
AI application developers will discover how to navigate the AI landscape, including models, datasets, evaluation benchmarks, and the seemingly infinite number of use cases and application patterns. You'll learn a framework for developing an AI application, starting with simple techniques and progressing toward more sophisticated methods, and discover how to efficiently deploy these applications.
- Understand what AI engineering is and how it differs from traditional machine learning engineering
- Learn the process for developing an AI application, the challenges at each step, and approaches to address them
- Explore various model adaptation techniques, including prompt engineering, RAG, fine-tuning, agents, and dataset engineering, and understand how and why they work
- Examine the bottlenecks for latency and cost when serving foundation models and learn how to overcome them
- Choose the right model, dataset, evaluation benchmarks, and metrics for your needs
Chip Huyen works to accelerate data analytics on GPUs at Voltron Data. Previously, she was with Snorkel AI and NVIDIA, founded an AI infrastructure startup, and taught Machine Learning Systems Design at Stanford. She's the author of the book Designing Machine Learning Systems, an Amazon bestseller in AI.
AI Engineering builds upon and is complementary to Designing Machine Learning Systems (O'Reilly).
- ISBN-101098166302
- ISBN-13978-1098166304
- Edition1st
- PublisherO'Reilly Media
- Publication dateJanuary 7, 2025
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions6.9 x 1.1 x 9 inches
- Print length532 pages
Frequently bought together

Customers who viewed this item also viewed
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable SystemsPaperbackFREE Shipping by AmazonGet it as soon as Sunday, Sep 20
- Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and GenerationPaperbackFREE Shipping by AmazonGet it as soon as Monday, Sep 21
- The Agentic AI Bible: The Complete and Up-to-Date Guide to Design, Develop, and Scale Goal-Driven, LLM-Powered Agents that Think, Execute and EvolvePaperbackFREE Shipping on orders over $35 shipped by AmazonGet it as soon as Monday, Sep 21
- Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)PaperbackFREE Shipping by AmazonGet it as soon as Sunday, Sep 20
- Designing Machine Learning Systems: An Iterative Process for Production-Ready ApplicationsPaperbackFREE Shipping by AmazonGet it as soon as Sunday, Sep 20
- LLM Engineer's Handbook: Master the art of engineering large language models from concept to productionPaperbackFREE Shipping by AmazonGet it as soon as Monday, Sep 21
Customers also bought or read
- Designing Machine Learning Systems: An Iterative Process for Production-Ready Applications
Paperback$40.00$40.00FREE delivery Sun, Sep 20 - Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation
Paperback$37.68$37.68FREE delivery Mon, Sep 21 - Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)#1 Best SellerComputer Neural Networks
Paperback$49.24$49.24FREE delivery Sun, Sep 20 - Building Applications with AI Agents: Designing and Implementing Multiagent Systems
Paperback$56.44$56.44FREE delivery Sun, Sep 20 - LLM Engineer's Handbook: Master the art of engineering large language models from concept to production
Paperback$39.99$39.99FREE delivery Mon, Sep 21 - Generative AI Design Patterns: Solutions to Common Challenges When Building GenAI Agents and Applications
Paperback$68.99$68.99FREE delivery Sun, Sep 20 - Prompt Engineering for LLMs: The Art and Science of Building Large Language Model-Based Applications
Paperback$54.51$54.51FREE delivery Mon, Sep 21 - Designing Multi-Agent Systems: Principles, Patterns, and Implementation for AI Agents
Paperback$46.39$46.39FREE delivery Mon, Sep 21 - Prompt Engineering for Generative AI: Future-Proof Inputs for Reliable AI Outputs
Paperback$50.00$50.00FREE delivery Sun, Sep 20 - Building AI Agents with LLMs, RAG, and Knowledge Graphs: A practical guide to autonomous and modern AI agents
Paperback$41.99$41.99FREE delivery Mon, Sep 21 - AI Systems Performance Engineering: Optimizing Model Training and Inference Workloads with GPUs, CUDA, and PyTorch
Paperback$87.70$87.70FREE delivery Mon, Sep 21 - The AI Engineering Bible: The Complete and Up-to-Date Guide to Build, Deploy and Scale Production Ready AI Systems
Paperback$39.38$39.38FREE delivery Mon, Sep 21 - Building LLMs for Production: Enhancing LLM Abilities and Reliability with Prompting, Fine-Tuning, and RAG
Paperback$43.38$43.38FREE delivery Mon, Sep 21 - LLMs in Production: From language models to successful products
Paperback$48.13$48.13FREE delivery Sun, Sep 20 - AI Agents in Action, Second Edition: Intelligent workflows with LLMs, MCP, A2A, and more#1 New ReleaseNatural Language Processing
Paperback$47.48$47.48FREE delivery Mon, Sep 21 - Practical MLOps: Operationalizing Machine Learning Models
Paperback$58.48$58.48FREE delivery Sun, Sep 20 - Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and PyTorch: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems
Paperback$77.72$77.72FREE delivery Mon, Sep 21 - Fundamentals of Software Architecture: A Modern Engineering Approach#1 Best SellerComputer Programming Logic
Paperback$52.40$52.40FREE delivery Sun, Sep 20 - Agentic Coding with Claude Code: The everyday developer's guide to agentic coding with Claude Code
Paperback$36.33$36.33FREE delivery Mon, Sep 21 - 30 Agents Every AI Engineer Must Build: Build production-ready agent systems using proven architectures and patterns
Paperback$41.79$41.79FREE delivery Tue, Sep 22 - Generative AI with LangChain: Build production-ready LLM applications and advanced agents using Python, LangChain, and LangGraph
Paperback$41.99$41.99FREE delivery Mon, Sep 21 - AI Agents and Applications: With LangChain, LangGraph, and MCP
Paperback$51.69$51.69FREE delivery Mon, Sep 21 - AI Agents in Action: Build, orchestrate, and deploy autonomous multi-agent systems
Paperback$59.99$59.99 - Knowledge Graphs and LLMs in Action: Build AI systems using connected data
Paperback$55.99$55.99FREE delivery Mon, Sep 21 - The Hundred-Page Language Models Book: hands-on with PyTorch (The Hundred-Page Books)
Paperback$46.95$46.95FREE delivery Mon, Sep 21 - A Philosophy of Software Design, 2nd Edition#1 Best SellerSoftware Testing
Paperback$19.87$19.87Delivery Sun, Sep 20 - Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems
Paperback$49.50$49.50FREE delivery Mon, Sep 21 - Learning LangChain: Building AI and LLM Applications with LangChain and LangGraph
Paperback$55.01$55.01FREE delivery Sun, Sep 20
From the brand
-
Machine Learning, AI & more
-
Machine Learning
-
Artificial Intelligence
-
Deep Learning
-
Language Processing (NLP, LLM)
-
Sharing the knowledge of experts
O'Reilly's mission is to change the world by sharing the knowledge of innovators. For over 40 years, we've inspired companies and individuals to do new things (and do them better) by providing the skills and understanding that are necessary for success.
Our customers are hungry to build the innovations that propel the world forward. And we help them do just that.
From the Publisher
Who This Book Is For
This book is for anyone who wants to leverage foundation models to solve real-world problems. This is a technical book, so the language of this book is geared toward technical roles, including AI engineers, ML engineers, data scientists, engineering managers, and technical product managers. This book is for you if you can relate to one of the following scenarios:
- You’re building or optimizing an AI application, whether you’re starting from scratch or looking to move beyond the demo phase into a production-ready stage. You may also be facing issues like hallucinations, security, latency, or costs, and need targeted solutions.
- You want to streamline your team’s AI development process, making it more systematic, faster, and reliable.
- You want to understand how your organization can leverage foundation models to improve the business’s bottom line and how to build a team to do so.
You can also benefit from the book if you belong to one of the following groups:
- Tool developers who want to identify underserved areas in AI engineering to position your products in the ecosystem.
- Researchers who want to better understand AI use cases.
- Job candidates seeking clarity on the skills needed to pursue a career as an AI engineer.
- Anyone wanting to better understand AI’s capabilities and limitations, and how it might affect different roles.
I love getting to the bottom of things, so some sections dive a bit deeper into the technical side. While many early readers like the detail, it might not be for everyone. I’ll give you a heads-up before things get too technical. Feel free to skip ahead if it feels a little too in the weeds!
AI Engineering
|
Ingeniería de IA
|
Ingegneria dell'IA
|
Ingénierie de l'IA
|
Ingénierie de l'IA
|
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Languages | English | Spanish | Italian | French | German |
Editorial Reviews
Review
- Vittorio Cretella, former global CIO at P&G and Mars
"Chip Huyen gets generative AI. She is a remarkable teacher and writer whose work has been instrumental in helping teams bring AI into production. Drawing on her deep expertise, AI Engineering is a comprehensive and holistic guide to building generative AI applications in production."
- Luke Metz, co-creator of ChatGPT
"Every AI engineer building real-world applications should read this book. It's a vital guide to end-to-end AI system design, from model development and evaluation to large-scale deployment and operation."
- Andrei Lopatenko, Director Search and AI, Neuron7
"This book serves as an essential guide for building AI products that can scale. Unlike other books that focus on tools or current trends that are constantly changing, Chip delivers timeless foundational knowledge. Whether you're a product manager or an engineer, this book effectively bridges the collaboration gap between cross-functional teams, making it a must-read for anyone involved in AI development."
- Aileen Bui, AI Product Operations Manager, Google
"This is the definitive segue into AI Engineering from one of the greats of ML Engineering! Chip has seen through successful projects and careers at every stage of a company and for the first time ever condensed her expertise for new AI Engineers entering the field."
- swyx, Curator, AI Engineer
About the Author
Product details
- Publisher : O'Reilly Media
- Publication date : January 7, 2025
- Edition : 1st
- Language : English
- Print length : 532 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1098166302
- ISBN-13 : 978-1098166304
- Item Weight : 2.05 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.9 x 1.1 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,735 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1 in Enterprise Applications
- #1 in Machine Theory (Books)
- #1 in Natural Language Processing (Books)
- Customer Reviews:
About the author

I’m Chip Huyen, a writer and computer scientist. I grew up chasing grasshoppers in a small rice-farming village in Vietnam.
I work in the intersection of AI, data, and storytelling. Previously, I built machine learning tools at NVIDIA, Snorkel AI, Netflix, and founded an AI infrastructure startup (acquired).
I also taught Machine Learning Systems Design at Stanford.
My last book, Designing Machine Learning Systems, is an Amazon bestseller in AI and has been translated into over 10 languages (very proud!).
In my free time, I like writing stories. I'm also the author of 4 Vietnamese story books.













