🎓 Free AI Courses

The 10 free courses actually worth your time, from zero to building agents — curated, no affiliate links, no filler.

Beginner

AI for Everyonefree certificate

DeepLearning.AI — Non-technical foundation: what AI can and cannot do, and how to bring it into an organization.

DeepLearning.AI — The canonical free short course on writing prompts programmatically.

Google — Fast, exercise-driven ML fundamentals with TensorFlow examples.

Microsoft — 21 lessons from prompt basics to building full generative apps; all code on GitHub.

Hugging Face — Transformers, fine-tuning, and the HF ecosystem hands-on — the standard open-source track.

Hugging Face — Build agents with tool use, planning, and evaluation; free certificate and leaderboard.

Hugging Face — The Model Context Protocol end-to-end: build and ship MCP servers and clients.

fast.ai — Top-down deep learning: train real models in lesson one, theory later. Free forever.

Andrej Karpathy — Build GPT from scratch in code, including backprop by hand. The best deep dive on YouTube.

Stanford — The university courses (vision, NLP) that trained a generation of ML engineers — free on YouTube.