{"slug": "your-chance-to-start-building-ai-agents-from-the-absolute-basics", "title": "Your chance to start building AI agents from the absolute basics", "summary": "Google has launched Agent Valley, a free 5-week live learning series that teaches beginners how to build AI agents from scratch, led by Google DevRel Engineer Annie Wang. Participants will build and interact with a low-poly virtual world, learning core agent concepts such as control, decomposition, coordination, memory, and live reactivity, with Google providing the development environment.", "body_md": "Have you been hearing a lot about \"AI agents\" lately but aren't sure how to actually start building them? You don't need a background in machine learning or years of software experience to get started. The best way to learn is by doing, which is why we built **Agent Valley**.\n\n**Agent Valley** is a free, 5-week live learning series designed to take you from scratch to building your very own hands-on agent systems. And instead of staring at boring terminal lines, you’ll be building and playing inside a tiny, low-poly virtual world!\n\nYou’ll be learning directly from Annie Wang, one of our top Google DevRel Engineers. She designed this course from the ground up to be fully hands-on, interactive, and beginner-friendly. If you want to learn how AI systems are built by the people actually designing them at Google, this is your chance.\n\nYou’ll learn by building in a split-screen workspace on your laptop. On Day 1, you'll describe and summon a custom low-poly companion that serves as your play character and save file. As you guide your companion through the valley's five districts, a live Runtime Inspector sits right beside the game, showing you exactly what the AI is thinking, deciding, and costing in real-time. Setup is completely zero-stress. Google will provide the environment for running these exercises, so you can dive straight into building.\n\n**Week 1: The Summoning Grove (CONTROL)** · Get started by summoning your companion and learning how to keep its memory and traits consistent across a conversation.\n\n**Week 2: The Buildyard (DECOMPOSE)** · Learn how to break a big project down so multiple AI assistants can work together in parallel without stepping on each other's toes.\n\n**Week 3: Market Street (COORDINATE)** · Open up a virtual shop! You'll learn how to write reliable code so transactions and returns go smoothly without crashing.\n\n**Week 4: The Archive (REMEMBER)** · Give your companion a memory. Learn how to help your agent remember past details without getting confused or making things up.\n\n**Week 5: The Night Market (LIVE)** · The grand finale. Learn how to make your agent react live to events in the world (like fireworks or stage lights) while keeping the system fast and affordable.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-chance-to-start-building-ai-agents-from-the-absolute-basics", "canonical_source": "https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/your-chance-to-start-building-ai-agents-from-the-absolute-basics/", "published_at": "2026-08-26 09:07:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-26 15:45:23.973096+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Google", "Agent Valley", "Annie Wang"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-chance-to-start-building-ai-agents-from-the-absolute-basics", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-chance-to-start-building-ai-agents-from-the-absolute-basics.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-chance-to-start-building-ai-agents-from-the-absolute-basics.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-chance-to-start-building-ai-agents-from-the-absolute-basics.jsonld"}}