University of Helsinki
Elements of AI: Introduction to AI
The University of Helsinki and MinnaLearn's free AI literacy course for non-programmers.
Free certificate
30 hrsBeginner
20 free courses
Free AI Courses
Artificial intelligence courses no longer require a paid degree. This collection gathers free AI courses from universities and major tech companies, from non-technical introductions to hands-on machine learning.
20 free courses
Kaggle Learn
Intro to Machine Learning
Kaggle's quick start to machine learning: build, validate and improve your first models.
Free certificate3 hrsBeginnerAnthropic Academy
AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations
Anthropic's free course on working with AI effectively, efficiently, ethically and safely.
Free certificate2 hrsBeginnerIBM SkillsBuild
Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals
IBM SkillsBuild's free AI learning plan with a shareable IBM digital badge.
Free certificate10 hrsBeginnerHugging Face
AI Agents Course
Hugging Face's free course on building AI agents, with free certificates.
Free certificate20 hrsIntermediateAnthropic Academy
Building with the Claude API
Anthropic's free developer course on the Claude API: prompting, tools, RAG, MCP and agents.
Free certificate8 hrsIntermediateHarvard's AI course: search, knowledge, uncertainty, optimization, learning and language.
Free certificate70 hrsIntermediateKaggle Learn
Intermediate Machine Learning
Kaggle's next step in ML: missing values, categorical data, pipelines, XGBoost and leakage.
Free certificate4 hrsIntermediateKaggle Learn
Intro to Deep Learning
Kaggle's short course on building and training neural networks with Keras.
Free certificate4 hrsIntermediateDeepLearning.AI
ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers
Andrew Ng and OpenAI's Isa Fulford on prompting LLMs through the API to build apps.
Paid certificate2 hrsBeginnerProf. Balaraman Ravindran's NPTEL machine learning course from IIT Madras.
Paid certificate96 hrsIntermediateMicrosoft (open-source curricula)
Generative AI for Beginners
Microsoft's free 21-lesson course on building generative AI apps in Python and TypeScript.
No certificate30 hrsBeginnerMicrosoft Learn
Get started with AI applications and agents on Azure
Microsoft Learn's free beginner path on AI, generative AI and agents in Azure.
No certificate6 hrsBeginnerGoogle's updated ML crash course: regression to neural nets, embeddings, LLMs and fairness.
No certificate14 hrsBeginnerMicrosoft (open-source curricula)
Machine Learning for Beginners
Microsoft's free 12-week, 26-lesson curriculum on classic machine learning with scikit-learn.
No certificate50 hrsBeginnerMIT OpenCourseWare
6.034 Artificial Intelligence
Patrick Winston's classic MIT AI lectures on search, constraints, learning and inference.
No certificate40 hrsIntermediateAnthropic Academy
Introduction to Model Context Protocol
Anthropic's free course on building MCP servers and clients in Python.
No certificate3 hrsIntermediateHugging Face
LLM Course
Hugging Face's free course on transformers, fine-tuning and building with large language models.
No certificate80 hrsIntermediateMassachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT 6.S191: Introduction to Deep Learning
MIT's fast-paced bootcamp on deep learning, refreshed each year, with free lectures and labs.
No certificate15 hrsIntermediatefast.ai's famous top-down deep learning course for people who can already code.
No certificate14 hrsIntermediate
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