Cohort archive
9 cohorts. All in the open.
Every cohort of TRI AI Saturdays, in reverse chronological order. Each cohort has its own page with curriculum, capstone projects, and instructor credits - preserved as a public record of nearly a decade of community-led AI learning.
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Cohort 10 - AI Research Foundations w/ Google DeepMind
A milestone tenth cohort, delivered in partnership with Google DeepMind. Sixteen weeks taking learners through DeepMind's AI Research Foundations Course 1–4, with hands-on work on Small Language Models, generative AI, and capstone projects. Applications closed May 17, 2026; the cohort has been running since May 31, 2026.
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Cohort 9 - Flipped
Cohort 9 introduced a flipped-classroom model. Participants watched curated pre-recorded lectures during the week, then met every Saturday for live community discussion, Q&A, and accountability. Ten capstone teams shipped projects ranging from telecom churn prediction to cholera risk mapping.
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Cohort 7
Cohort 7 ran 16 weeks of classes alongside 11 weeks of practical sessions. Students worked in teams named after African leaders, shipping projects on real-estate prediction, recommendation systems, food price forecasting, and more.
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Cohort 6
The sixth cohort of learners contributed to the cumulative project archive maintained on the AI Saturdays Lagos GitHub. Detailed records from this cohort are still being archived.
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Cohort 5
Cohort 5 ran two tracks - Data Science / Machine Learning and Deep Learning - with eight capstone teams shipping presentations and YouTube videos for each project.
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Cohort 4
Cohort 4 expanded into four tracks - Data Science, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Natural Language Processing - and formalised the cohort_structure curriculum on GitHub.
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Cohort 3
Cohort 3 ran two parallel tracks - Machine Learning and Deep Learning. Project writeups were published on the AI Saturdays Lagos Medium publication.
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Cohort 2
The second cohort of AI Saturdays Lagos, building on the foundation laid by the inaugural intake. Detailed records from this cohort are still being archived.
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Cohort 1 - Inaugural
The inaugural cohort. AI Saturdays Lagos began as a community study group in Lagos, focused on bridging the gap between curious engineers and the structured AI knowledge most lacked access to. Five teams explored the major deep learning frameworks of the era - PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, Theano, and Nervana Neon - and published their findings as articles.
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