AI Courses & News

A hand-picked list of credible AI courses and certifications, from free fundamentals to professional credentials. Below the list you’ll find a live feed of the latest AI news and happenings.

Certifications

Recognised, vendor-backed credentials worth putting on a CV:

• AWS Certified AI Practitioner - foundational AI, ML and generative-AI concepts on AWS. Great entry point.
• AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate - building, deploying and operating ML workloads on AWS.
• Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) - beginner-friendly overview of AI and Azure AI services.
• Microsoft Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102) - designing and implementing Azure AI solutions. (Note: AI-102 retires 30 Jun 2026 and is succeeded by AI-103.)
• Google Cloud Generative AI Leader - business-focused certification, no hands-on prerequisites.
• Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer - designing and productionising ML on Google Cloud.

Courses & learning

Structured learning, much of it free:

• DeepLearning.AI - Andrew Ng’s short courses and specialisations, many free and built with OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain and Google.
• Anthropic Academy - free official courses on Claude, the API, MCP and Agent Skills, with certificates (overview).
• OpenAI Academy - free, self-paced ChatGPT and AI-fundamentals courses for everyday and workplace use.
• Hugging Face - Learn - free, hands-on LLM, AI Agents and deep reinforcement learning courses.
• Google AI Essentials - short, practical introduction to using AI at work.
• NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute - technical, hands-on training and certificates in deep learning and accelerated computing.

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