Where AI courses live
The platforms, universities and AI labs behind the courses in our index, with what each is best for.
CourseraMOOC platform
University and industry courses; most can be audited free, with certificates via Coursera Plus (~$59/mo).
DeepLearning.AISpecialist
Andrew Ng's education company: flagship specializations plus dozens of free one-hour short courses.
GitHubOpen-source
Open curricula like Microsoft's 'AI for Beginners' and community-maintained course materials.
Anthropic AcademyVendor
Anthropic's free official training on building with Claude, the Model Context Protocol, and Claude Code.
OpenAI AcademyVendor
Free OpenAI learning hub with live events, videos, and tracks for educators, developers, and business.
Microsoft LearnVendor
Free learning paths, open-source 'for Beginners' curricula on GitHub, and Azure AI certification prep.
UdacityNanodegrees
Project-based Nanodegree programs with mentor support, now part of Accenture.
YouTubeFree video
Complete university lecture series and creator courses from 3Blue1Brown, Andrej Karpathy, StatQuest and more.
Hugging FaceOpen-source
Free, hands-on courses on NLP, LLMs, deep RL, agents, and diffusion models from the open-model hub.
GoogleVendor
Google AI Essentials, Prompting Essentials, Machine Learning Crash Course, and Google Skills learning paths.
Stanford UniversityUniversity
Stanford's famous CS229, CS231n, CS224N, CS234 and CS25 course materials and full lecture recordings, free.
edXMOOC platform
Harvard/MIT-founded platform with free audit tracks, MicroMasters, and professional certificates.
AWS TrainingVendor
AWS Skill Builder courses and the AI Practitioner and ML certification tracks.
KaggleOpen-source
Free, short, practical micro-courses with in-browser notebooks and competitions.
MIT OpenCourseWareUniversity
Free recorded MIT courses including linear algebra, machine learning, and the 6.S191 deep learning series.
Stanford OnlineUniversity
Stanford's paid professional courses (XCS series) and graduate certificates in AI.
CodecademySubscription
Interactive coding courses with AI and machine learning career paths.
Google CloudVendor
Google Cloud's Professional Machine Learning Engineer and Generative AI Leader certifications.
Databricks AcademyVendor
Free self-paced data and ML engineering paths plus the Databricks ML certifications.
UC BerkeleyUniversity
Berkeley's free course sites for CS285 deep RL alongside its executive education and MIDS degree.
EmeritusExec education
Delivers executive programs for Berkeley, MIT, Columbia, Wharton and other top business schools.
GetSmarterExec education
Online short courses from Oxford, Harvard VPAL, LSE, and Cambridge.
LinkedIn LearningSubscription
Short professional courses; several generative-AI career paths are free.
University of HelsinkiUniversity
Creators of Elements of AI and Ethics of AI, free and open to the world.
CohereVendor
LLM University: free, practical modules on language models, RAG and semantic search.
Khan AcademyFree
Free math foundations, including the linear algebra and statistics you need for ML.
BlueDot ImpactNonprofit
Free, cohort-based AI safety and alignment courses with facilitated discussion groups.
fast.aiSpecialist
Free, top-down deep learning courses that get you training real models in the first lesson.
NVIDIA DLIVendor
NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute: free self-paced courses and paid instructor-led workshops with certificates.
HarvardUniversity
Free CS50 courses on edX plus Harvard Business School Online and professional development programs.