Free AI courses
42 AI courses their providers offer at no cost, beginner first. Free offers can change, so confirm on the provider's page before you start.
Free courses, beginner first
IBM
AI for Everyone: Master the Basics
BeginnerFreeAny roleA free-to-audit foundational course on AI concepts and terminology.
HubSpot Academy
AI-Driven Customer Service
HubSpot Academy’s free short course on how support teams use AI with Service Hub. The level is ours.
Microsoft
Automate a business process using Power Automate
Microsoft Learn’s free path for building approval and data flows in Power Automate, the automation tool operations postings name.
Salesforce
Become an Agentblazer Champion
Trailhead’s free Agentforce trail: what AI agents do in Salesforce and how sales and service teams use them.
Anthropic
Claude 101
BeginnerFreeAny roleEveryday use of Claude as an AI assistant for writing, research and analysis, with the prompt writing habits that make it reliable.
Google Cloud
Draft NDA Documents with Gemini
Short video course: draft a first-pass NDA with Gemini, then check it the way a lawyer would. Free; the level is ours, Google does not state one.
Microsoft
Draft, Analyze, and Present with Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Learn’s free path for Copilot in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Microsoft Copilot is the AI tool finance postings name most.
Google Cloud
Elevate Financial Advisor Insights with Gemini
Short video course: use Gemini to pull client-relevant insight out of research and account material before an advisor conversation. Free; the level is ours, Google does not state one.
Microsoft
Empower your workforce with Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Learn’s free path: exercises that build Copilot skills in role-related business scenarios. The level is ours.
Microsoft
Explore the business value of generative AI solutions
Microsoft Learn’s free path for business leaders on the value of generative AI solutions. The level is ours.
GitHub
Getting Started with GitHub Copilot
BeginnerFreeAny roleGitHub’s free hands-on exercise in its own repository: use Copilot as an AI pair programmer to write, debug and ship code faster.
Google Cloud
Introduction to Generative AI
BeginnerFreeAny roleA free, short intro to what generative AI is and how it works.
Microsoft
Optimize business processes with Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Learn’s free path on using Copilot to improve everyday business processes. The level is ours.
Microsoft
Use Copilot in Power Automate
BeginnerFreeAny roleA short Microsoft Learn module on using Copilot in Power Automate to build and change workflows by describing what you want.
Microsoft
Use Dynamics 365 Copilot for Sales
Microsoft Learn’s free path on using Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales. The level is ours.
Google Cloud
Use Gemini to Redact Legal Documents
Short video course: find and mark sensitive text for redaction with Gemini. Free; the level is ours, Google does not state one.
Google Cloud
Accelerate Bond Issuance in Gemini
Short video course: speed up the document-heavy steps of a bond issuance with Gemini. Free; the level is ours, Google does not state one.
Anthropic
AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations
IntermediateFreeAny roleA framework for working with AI assistants effectively, ethically and safely, built around responsible AI practice you can apply in any role.
NVIDIA
An Even Easier Introduction to CUDA
IntermediateFreeAny roleA free, step-by-step introduction to CUDA C++ for GPUs, built around one parallel programming example.
Microsoft
Automate Tasks and Workflows in Microsoft Copilot Studio
IntermediateFreeAny roleAutomate tasks across systems, websites and applications with agent flows and computer use in Microsoft Copilot Studio.
DeepLearning.AI
ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers
IntermediateFreeAny rolePrompt engineering patterns, then using LLM APIs to summarise, classify, transform and expand text inside your own applications.
Anthropic
Claude Code in Action
IntermediateFreeAny roleAnthropic’s free course on running longer Claude Code sessions you can trust: steer the assistant, configure it, automate repeat work and verify what it wrote.
Google Cloud
Contract Review and Playbook Creation with Gemini
Short video course: review contracts against a playbook, and build the playbook, with Gemini. Free; the level is ours, Google does not state one.
Microsoft
Design and build multi-agent solutions in Microsoft Copilot Studio
Microsoft Learn’s free path for planning, designing and building multi-agent solutions in Copilot Studio. The level is ours.
Microsoft
Empower customer service representatives in Dynamics 365 Contact Center
Microsoft Learn’s free path on equipping service representatives with AI in Dynamics 365 Contact Center. The level is ours.
DeepLearning.AI
How Diffusion Models Work
IntermediateFreeAny roleBuild a diffusion model from the ground up, the technique behind AI image generation, and learn how today’s versions speed up sampling.
NIST
NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF)
IntermediateFreeAny roleThe free, public framework most AI policies cite: Govern, Map, Measure, Manage. Read it to write or review an AI use policy or a use-case risk review.
Google Cloud
Uncover Credit Market Opportunities with Gemini
Short video course: screen credit markets and surface opportunities with Gemini. Free; the level is ours, Google does not state one.
Google Cloud
Use Gemini for Financial Portfolio Resilience
Short video course: stress-test a portfolio and read concentration and scenario risk with Gemini. Free; the level is ours, Google does not state one.
Google Cloud
Use Gemini for Legal Data and DSAR Responses
Short video course: find and organize the records behind a data subject access request with Gemini. Free; the level is ours, Google does not state one.
Google Cloud
Use Gemini for Legal Regulatory Horizon Scanning
Short video course: track incoming regulation and summarize what it means for your organization with Gemini. Free; the level is ours, Google does not state one.
DeepLearning.AI
AI Agents in LangGraph
AdvancedFreeAny roleDesign AI agents and agentic workflows in LangGraph: tool calling, persistence and human-in-the-loop control.
Harvard
CS50's Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python
AdvancedFreeAny roleA free-to-audit course on AI concepts and implementation in Python.
DeepLearning.AI
Evaluating AI Agents
AdvancedFreeAny roleTest whether AI agents do the right thing: AI evaluation methods, spotting hallucinations and measuring output quality.
DeepLearning.AI
Fine-tuning & RL for LLMs: Intro to Post-training
AdvancedFreeAny roleApply fine-tuning and reinforcement learning to shape model behavior, improve reasoning, and make LLMs safer and more reliable.
DeepLearning.AI
Finetuning Large Language Models
AdvancedFreeAny roleWhen to finetune instead of prompt, how to choose an open-source model, prepare data, then train and evaluate for your domain.
DeepLearning.AI
LangChain for LLM Application Development
AdvancedFreeAny roleBuild LLM applications with LangChain: models, prompts, memory and chains, then AI agents that call tools, on top of an LLM API.
DeepLearning.AI
LLMOps
AdvancedFreeAny roleLLMOps best practices: design and automate the steps to fine-tune and deploy an LLM for a specific task.
DeepLearning.AI
MCP: Build Rich-Context AI Apps with Anthropic
AdvancedFreeAny roleBuild AI applications that reach tools and data through the Model Context Protocol, including MCP servers and AI agents that use them.
DeepLearning.AI
Multi AI Agent Systems with crewAI
AdvancedFreeAny roleBuild multi-agent systems with crewAI where AI agents divide a task, use tools and hand work to each other.
DeepLearning.AI
Red Teaming LLM Applications
AdvancedFreeAny roleRed team an LLM application to find safety and security failures, then use model evaluation to measure and fix them.
DeepLearning.AI
Vector Databases: from Embeddings to Applications
AdvancedFreeAny roleHow embeddings and vector databases power semantic search and retrieval-augmented applications, with hands-on builds.
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1. Do you use an AI assistant (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot) at least weekly for real work?
2. Do you write your own detailed prompts and rework them when the answer is off?
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