AI courses that are free, from the labs themselves

1Claude Academyanthropic.com ↗

by Anthropic, who build Claude

Claude Code in your terminal, in your IDE and in the browser, plus the API, the Console and MCP. There are agent tracks built with Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry too. This is the company that makes the model teaching you how to use it.

2Hugging Face Agents Coursehuggingface.co ↗

by Hugging Face

Five units on building real agents: smolagents, LlamaIndex, LangGraph and agentic RAG. You finish it by building your own agent and certifying it, so you leave with something you made instead of a video you watched.

3Hugging Face MCP Coursehuggingface.co ↗

by Hugging Face

MCP is how AI tools talk to other software. It is why Claude can open Canva and make a graphic for you. Every serious tool is adopting it right now and almost nobody has properly sat down and learned it.

The Canva example is real. Canva ships an official AI Connector that lets Claude create designs, autofill templates and export to PDF, JPEG or MP4. Their own setup page:

canva.com/help/mcp-agent-setup

4fast.aicourse.fast.ai ↗

by Jeremy Howard and the fast.ai team

Practical Deep Learning for Coders. It has been free for years, there is no paywall and no upsell, and it is still better than most of the courses people pay for. It has you build a working model first and explains the theory after.

5DeepLearning.AI short coursesdeeplearning.ai ↗

by Andrew Ng

Short, focused courses you can finish in an evening, and a good number of them are built directly with the labs whose tools they cover. Start with whichever one matches the thing you are stuck on this week.