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Free self-paced courses, courses and cohorts from approved trainers, and free courses from the companies building AI, all in one place. Training you complete counts toward your AI Ready certificate hours.

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  • Google for Developers

    Machine Learning Crash Course (opens in a new tab)

    Google's practical intro to machine learning with animated videos, interactive visualizations and hands-on exercises.

    Free
    Intermediate · Self-paced
  • NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute

    Securing Agents with NemoClaw and OpenShell (opens in a new tab)

    Go from a single API call to coordinated agents with retrieval and planning, running safely inside a secure sandbox.

    Free
    Intermediate · Hands-on · 4 hrs
  • OpenAI Academy

    Build with AI: Codex and the OpenAI API (opens in a new tab)

    Digital badge

    Scope, build, evaluate and deploy AI solutions, including RAG and agentic systems, across eight builder courses.

    Free
    Intermediate · Self-paced · 8 courses
  • Anthropic Academy

    Building with the Claude API (opens in a new tab)

    Certificate

    A full developer course on building applications with Anthropic models through the Claude API.

    Free
    Intermediate · Hands-on · Self-paced
  • Anthropic Academy

    Introduction to Model Context Protocol (opens in a new tab)

    Certificate

    Build MCP servers and clients in Python to connect AI assistants to outside tools, resources and data.

    Free
    Intermediate · Hands-on · Self-paced
  • Microsoft on GitHub

    Generative AI for Beginners (opens in a new tab)

    Microsoft's open curriculum on building generative AI apps: prompt engineering, RAG, agents and more.

    Free
    Intermediate · Hands-on · 21 lessons
  • Oracle University

    Oracle Agentic AI Foundations Associate (2026) (opens in a new tab)

    Free certification exam

    Course, skill checks, practice exam and a free official certification exam on designing and building AI agents.

    Free
    Intermediate · Self-paced · Learning path
  • DeepLearning.AI + OpenAI

    ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers (opens in a new tab)

    Taught with OpenAI. Best practices for using LLMs in code to summarize, infer, transform and expand text.

    Free
    Intermediate · Video + code · 1 hr 40 min
  • Hugging Face

    Hugging Face AI Agents Course (opens in a new tab)

    Certificate

    Understand, use and build AI agents with open-source libraries, from beginner concepts to a final challenge.

    Free
    Intermediate · Hands-on · Self-paced
  • Enterprise Technology Association (ETA)

    AI Fluency: Practitioner

    ETA Certified AI Empowered Professional · Level 2: Practitioner

    Go beyond the basics: write expert-level briefs, work with files and data, verify and protect, and turn what works into templates and team playbooks using the ETA ADAPT framework.

    $149 or with ETA Pro
    Intermediate · Self-paced online · 2.5 hr
  • Enterprise Technology Association (ETA)

    AI Agents at Work: Practitioner

    ETA Certified AI Empowered Professional · Level 2: Practitioner

    Go beyond the basics: write agent specs that hold up, connect agents to your apps with least privilege, and design the approvals, verification and recovery steps that make agent work safe and worth it.

    $149 or with ETA Pro
    Intermediate · Self-paced online · 2.4 hr
  • Enterprise Technology Association (ETA)

    Microsoft Copilot at Work

    ETA Specialist credential

    Use Microsoft Copilot well at work: understand what it can see, brief it clearly, verify recaps, drafts, numbers and decks, use agents at the right rung, and measure time saved honestly. Earns the ETA Specialist: Microsoft Copilot credential.

    $149 or with ETA Pro
    Intermediate · Self-paced online · 4.8 hr
  • Enterprise Technology Association (ETA)

    AI for People Leaders

    ETA Specialist credential

    For managers, supervisors and team leads: set team AI norms, choose and pilot use cases, coach people, protect quality and trust, and measure value honestly, ending with a 90-day adoption plan for your real team.

    $149 or with ETA Pro
    Intermediate · Self-paced online · 4.2 hr
  • Enterprise Technology Association (ETA)

    AI Governance and Security

    ETA Specialist credential

    For IT, security, risk and compliance leaders: build an AI governance program people follow, assess AI risk, secure assistants and agents, and monitor and respond to incidents, ending with a reviewed governance and security plan for your organization.

    $149 or with ETA Pro
    Intermediate · Self-paced online · 4.5 hr

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AI Explorer, AI Empowered Professional and AI Empowered Leader are earned with verified training hours (2, 4 and 8 total) from courses, workshops and events. Then keep stacking hours and credentials.

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Some providers also offer certifications: a full curriculum with assessments, completed level by level, like the ETA Certified AI Empowered Professional. Certifications are earned by finishing the curriculum, not by hours.

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