🤖free ai courses, straight from the labs

no udemy reseller nonsense, just what google/anthropic/openai/deeplearning actually publish free. canceled my sub to write this

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the actual zero-experience starting point, like 10-15 hours total
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andrew ng, all video, free to watch
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AI Prompting for Everyone (DeepLearning.AI)
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free courses zero to api, you get an actual certificate at the end
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DeepLearning.AI's agentic AI short course (Andrew Ng)
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Claude Academy, developer track (Claude Code + API)
this is the one that actually stuck. everything else I sort of skimmed
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OpenAI Academy
four tracks, apply/build/lead/teach. build track is codex + the api