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Free courses

Free AI courses

Pick one subject and finish it. Every lesson runs real Python in your browser with nothing to install, and when you finish a course you earn a certificate with a link you can share. There's nothing to pay, here or anywhere in the academy.

New to programming? Start with Python for AI.

22 lessons · about 11 hours

Free Python for AI course

Learn Python from your first line of code to your first call to a language model, with nothing to install.

14 lessons · about 8 hours

Free prompt engineering course

Learn to write prompts that work reliably, then test them like an engineer: clear instructions, examples, structured output, chains, evals and defenses against prompt injection.

13 lessons · about 7 hours

Free RAG course

Build retrieval-augmented generation step by step: embeddings, chunking, vector search, grounded answers with sources, and the measurements that tell you whether it works.

25 lessons · about 17 hours

Free AI agents course

Learn how to build AI agents by building one: tools, the agent loop, MCP, permissions, context management and evals, ending with a coding agent that stops when its tests pass.

20 lessons · about 13 hours

Build an LLM from scratch: a free course

Go from counting letter pairs to a small GPT you train yourself: tokenizers, attention, transformer blocks and the GPT architecture, written line by line.

244 lessons · about 157 hours

The whole course

All twelve phases, from your first Python program to shipping production AI. These courses are shorter paths through the same lessons.