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Short, free courses on the foundations of AI. Read the lessons, pass a quick quiz, and get a shareable certificate for your LinkedIn or socials. Sign in with GitHub to save your progress.

beginner · 45 min

AI Foundations

The essentials everyone should know: what AI is, how it learns, and the ideas the whole field builds on.

beginner · 45 min

Large Language Models 101

How ChatGPT-style models actually work — and how to make them do what you want.

beginner · 45 min

Machine Learning Basics

How machines learn from data — the paradigms, the workflow, and why generalization is the whole game.

beginner · 45 min

Prompt Engineering Essentials

Get reliable results from LLMs — the prompting patterns that actually hold up in real applications.

beginner · 45 min

AI Safety & Alignment

Why keeping capable AI reliably doing what we intend is hard — and the techniques used today.

intermediate · 50 min

Neural Networks & Deep Learning

What neural networks are, why depth works, and the transformer that powers modern AI.

intermediate · 45 min

RAG in Practice

Ground an LLM in your own documents — the pipeline behind reliable, up-to-date answers.

advanced · 55 min

Transformers & Attention: A Deep Dive

Build correct intuition for attention, transformer blocks, decoding, KV caching, and scaling laws.

intermediate · 45 min

AI Agents & Tool Use

Build reliable LLM agents that reason, call tools, and know when a plain pipeline wins.

intermediate · 45 min

Fine-Tuning & Model Adaptation

Learn when and how to adapt language models through fine-tuning, and when simpler methods win.

intermediate · 45 min

Evaluating AI Systems

Learn why evaluating AI is hard and how to build evals that actually predict real-world quality.

intermediate · 45 min

Computer Vision Essentials

Learn how machines see: image representation, CNNs, transformers, and where vision models fail.

beginner · 45 min

AI Ethics & Responsible AI

A beginner's guide to bias, fairness, privacy, transparency, and governance for AI systems deployed in society.

intermediate · 45 min

Building AI Products

Ship reliable, trustworthy AI features by designing for uncertainty, evaluation, and cost from day one.

intermediate · 45 min

Generative AI Beyond Text

How AI generates images, audio, and video with diffusion models, plus controllability, evaluation, and real risks.