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Agentic AI with Andrew Ng
Build agentic AI systems with iterative, multi-step workflows. Learn reflection, tool use, planning, and multi-agent patterns from AI pioneer Andrew Ng.
AI Agents for Beginners
Free comprehensive course from Microsoft with 12+ lessons covering AI agent fundamentals. Learn frameworks like AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, and Azure AI Agent Service.
Google AI Agents Intensive — Kaggle
5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course with Google on Kaggle. Complete playlist with 5 video sessions covering hands-on training to build advanced AI agent systems.
Google AI Agents Intensive: Vibecoding Edition
Free 5-Day AI Agents Intensive course from Google focused on vibecoding — building production AI agents through hands-on, AI-assisted coding workflows with daily challenges.
Hugging Face Agents Course
Learn to build AI agents with Hugging Face tools. Comprehensive course covering transformers, agent frameworks, and practical implementations for real-world applications.
Agent Quality Whitepaper
In-depth research whitepaper on AI agent quality metrics and evaluation frameworks. Learn best practices for building and evaluating high-quality AI agents.
Prototype to Production — AI Agents
Comprehensive guide on moving AI agents from prototype to production. Covers deployment strategies, scaling, optimization, monitoring, and maintaining production-ready agent systems.
Anthropic Academy
Free official courses from Anthropic — the maker of Claude — covering Claude usage, prompt engineering, the Claude API, Claude Code, and AI fluency for teams. Self-paced, certificates available.
Microsoft Learn
Microsoft's free official training hub with thousands of hands-on learning paths covering Azure AI, Copilot, .NET, Power Platform, and Microsoft Certifications. Sandbox environments included.
OpenAI Academy
Free official learning platform from OpenAI — the maker of ChatGPT — with on-demand courses, live workshops, and expert sessions on GPT models, prompt engineering, and real-world AI workflows.
IBM SkillsBuild
Free skill-building platform from IBM with 1,000+ courses on AI, cybersecurity, data analysis, and cloud computing. Includes IBM-issued digital credentials and badges for LinkedIn.
AWS Skill Builder
600+ free digital courses from Amazon Web Services covering cloud, generative AI, and machine learning. Includes learning plans and exam prep for AWS certifications.
Hugging Face Learn
Free hands-on courses from Hugging Face covering transformers and NLP, deep RL, AI agents, audio, computer vision, and diffusion models — with practical notebooks and assignments.
Stanford CS229: Machine Learning
Led by Andrew Ng, this graduate-level course provides a broad introduction to ML covering supervised learning, unsupervised learning, neural networks, SVMs, and reinforcement learning. 20 lectures.
Stanford CS224N: NLP with Deep Learning
Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning by Chris Manning. Covers word embeddings, RNNs, transformers, LLMs, pre-training, post-training, and cutting-edge NLP research.
Supervised Learning with scikit-learn
DataCamp's 4-hour intermediate course covering classification, regression, model evaluation, hyperparameter tuning, and preprocessing pipelines using real-world datasets.
MIT 6.S191: Introduction to Deep Learning
MIT's introductory deep learning program covering neural networks, CNNs, RNNs, transformers, generative AI, and reinforcement learning. Hands-on labs in Google Colab. 100,000+ global students.
Deep Learning in Python Track
DataCamp's comprehensive 4-course track using PyTorch. Build models for image classification, text processing, and learn the Transformers architecture behind ChatGPT.
MIT Hands-on Deep Learning 2024
MIT OpenCourseWare's hands-on deep learning course by Rama Ramakrishnan. Complete lecture videos and notes covering practical deep learning techniques with real-world applications.
Developing Large Language Models
DataCamp's 16-hour track covering LLM concepts, transformer architecture with PyTorch, Hugging Face integration, and building LLM applications with LangChain. Covers GPT-4 and Llama 3.
Stanford CS229 YouTube Lectures
Complete video lecture series from Stanford's CS229 Machine Learning course taught by Andrew Ng. Covers the mathematical theory behind ML algorithms for those interested in research.
Reinforcement Learning in Python
DataCamp's 12-hour track covering RL fundamentals, Deep Q-Networks, Policy Gradient methods, PPO, and RLHF for training LLMs. Includes hands-on projects in stock trading, robotics, and game AI.
MLOps Concepts
DataCamp's 2-hour course on deploying ML models to production. Learn feature stores, experiment tracking, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, monitoring, and different MLOps maturity levels.
Google AI Essentials
Under 5 hours to learn AI fundamentals, prompt engineering, and responsible AI usage. Created by Google AI experts with hands-on exercises for real workplace scenarios. Earn a Google certificate.
Introduction to Vertex AI Studio
Free 1.5-hour Google Cloud course on Gemini multimodal applications, prompt design, model tuning, and the prompt-to-production lifecycle. Includes hands-on labs and skill badge option.
Build AI Apps with Gemini & Imagen
Free 1.25-hour skill badge course covering image recognition, NLP, and image generation using Google's Gemini and Imagen models. Deploy applications on Vertex AI. Available in 9 languages.
CS50 — Harvard
Harvard's legendary introduction to computer science. Completely free course with lectures, problem sets, projects, and a verified certificate upon completion.
CS50's CS for Business Professionals
Harvard's CS50 variant for business professionals. Covers computational thinking, internet technologies, web development, and cloud computing — designed for tech literacy without deep programming.
Stanford: Transformer Architecture Deep Dive
Advanced Stanford lecture on transformer-based models, covering attention approximation, position embeddings (sinusoidal and RoPE), BERT and derivatives, and key architectural modifications.
Career Advice in AI
Expert guidance on building and advancing your career in artificial intelligence. Learn about career paths, skill development, industry trends, and strategies for success in the AI field.
Understanding Machine Learning
Theory meets algorithms. A comprehensive textbook covering the theoretical foundations of machine learning with rigorous mathematical treatment and practical algorithmic insights.
Mathematics for Machine Learning
Linear algebra to calculus made intuitive. Covers the essential mathematical foundations — linear algebra, analytic geometry, matrix decompositions, probability, and optimization — needed for ML.
Mathematical Analysis of ML
The theory behind the code. Dive deep into the mathematical analysis that powers machine learning algorithms, from convergence proofs to generalization bounds.
Deep Learning Principles
Neural networks explained clearly. A structured approach to understanding deep learning from fundamental principles, covering architectures, training methods, and modern techniques.
ML with Networks
From neurons to backpropagation. Covers neural network fundamentals, learning algorithms, and network architectures with clear explanations of how networks learn from data.
Deep Learning on Graphs
Graph Neural Networks and modern architectures. Explore how deep learning applies to graph-structured data, covering GNNs, message passing, graph transformers, and real-world applications.
Algorithmic Machine Learning
Complexity and optimization theory. Understand the algorithmic foundations of ML including computational complexity, optimization methods, and efficient learning algorithms.
Probability Theory
Statistical foundations with examples. Build a strong understanding of probability theory essential for machine learning — from distributions and random variables to Bayesian inference.
Elementary Probability
Beginner-friendly with real-world applications. An accessible introduction to probability concepts with practical examples, perfect for those starting their ML journey.
Advanced Data Analysis
Statistical learning for production systems. Advanced methods for data analysis covering regression, classification, model selection, and techniques used in real production ML systems.
ML Interview Preparation
Comprehensive resource for preparing for machine learning interviews. Covers key concepts, common questions, and practical tips to ace your ML engineering interviews.
Foundations of Machine Learning
By Mehryar Mohri, Afshin Rostamizadeh, and Ameet Talwalkar. Rigorous mathematical treatment of ML foundations covering PAC learning, Rademacher complexity, boosting, and kernel methods.
Understanding Deep Learning
A modern and comprehensive textbook covering neural networks, backpropagation, CNNs, transformers, GANs, diffusion models, and reinforcement learning with interactive notebooks.
Algorithms for Machine Learning
Covers decision making under uncertainty with practical algorithms. Explores optimization, probabilistic reasoning, sequential decision problems, and multi-agent systems.
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction
By Sutton and Barto. The definitive textbook on reinforcement learning covering multi-armed bandits, MDPs, temporal-difference learning, policy gradient methods, and deep RL.
Introduction to Machine Learning Systems
Comprehensive guide to building production ML systems. Covers system design, data pipelines, model serving, monitoring, and the full lifecycle of deploying ML at scale.
Deep Learning (Goodfellow et al.)
By Goodfellow, Bengio, and Courville. The classic deep learning textbook covering linear algebra, probability, neural networks, CNNs, RNNs, and generative models.
Distributional Reinforcement Learning
MIT Press open access monograph exploring the distributional perspective on RL, where agents learn the full distribution of returns rather than just expected values.
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Comprehensive resource on MARL covering cooperative, competitive, and mixed multi-agent environments, game theory foundations, and modern deep MARL algorithms.
Agents in the Long Game of AI
MIT Press open access monograph exploring the role of AI agents in long-term AI development, covering autonomous systems, decision-making, and the future of AI agent architectures.
Fairness and Machine Learning
Exploring limitations and opportunities in fairness-aware ML. Covers bias detection, fairness metrics, algorithmic fairness, and building equitable AI systems.
Andrej Karpathy
Former Tesla AI Director and OpenAI co-founder sharing deep dives into neural networks, GPT internals, and building AI from scratch. Essential viewing for understanding how modern AI actually works.
StatQuest with Josh Starmer
Statistics and machine learning concepts explained clearly with fun illustrations. Covers everything from basic statistics to neural networks, decision trees, PCA, and more — perfect for ML foundations.
3Blue1Brown
Beautiful visual explanations of mathematics, linear algebra, calculus, and neural networks. Grant Sanderson's animations make complex mathematical concepts intuitive — a must-watch for understanding AI math.
Sebastian Raschka
AI researcher and author of "Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn" sharing tutorials on deep learning, LLMs, research paper walkthroughs, and practical ML engineering tips.
Hands-On ML with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow
By Aurelien Geron. The go-to practical guide for ML engineers covering end-to-end projects, deep learning with Keras and TensorFlow, CNNs, RNNs, GANs, and reinforcement learning with hands-on code.
An Introduction to Statistical Learning (ISLR)
By James, Witten, Hastie, and Tibshirani. A widely used textbook for statistical learning methods including regression, classification, tree-based methods, SVMs, and unsupervised learning with R and Python labs.
The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book
By Andriy Burkov. A concise yet comprehensive overview of machine learning covering supervised and unsupervised learning, neural networks, and best practices — perfect for quick reference.
Machine Learning Yearning
By Andrew Ng. A practical guide focused on structuring ML projects, diagnosing errors, and making strategic decisions. Learn how to set up dev/test sets and handle bias and variance.
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
By Christopher M. Bishop. A comprehensive textbook covering probability distributions, linear models, neural networks, kernel methods, graphical models, and approximate inference — the gold standard for ML theory.
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