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AI Agents

Agentic AI with Andrew Ng

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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

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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

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5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course with Google on Kaggle. Complete playlist with 5 video sessions covering hands-on intensive training to build advanced AI agent systems with Google's latest tools and frameworks.

Google AI Agents Intensive: Vibecoding Edition — Kaggle

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Free 5-Day AI Agents Intensive course from Google on Kaggle, focused on vibecoding — building production AI agents through hands-on, AI-assisted coding workflows. Competition-format with Google's latest agent frameworks, daily challenges, and community leaderboard.

Hugging Face Agents Course

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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 — Kaggle

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In-depth research whitepaper on AI agent quality metrics and evaluation frameworks. Learn best practices for building and evaluating high-quality AI agents from Kaggle's research community.

Prototype to Production — Kaggle

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Comprehensive guide on moving AI agents from prototype to production. Covers deployment strategies, scaling, optimization, monitoring, and maintaining production-ready agent systems.

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Official Learning Platforms

Anthropic Academy

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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, no cost, certificates of completion available.

Microsoft Learn

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Microsoft's free official training hub with thousands of hands-on learning paths and modules covering Azure AI, Copilot, .NET, Power Platform, and Microsoft Certifications. Sandbox environments included at no cost.

OpenAI Academy

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Free official learning platform from OpenAI — the maker of ChatGPT — with on-demand courses, live workshops, and expert sessions on ChatGPT, GPT models, prompt engineering, and real-world AI workflows for professionals and educators.

IBM SkillsBuild

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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 that you can share on LinkedIn.

AWS Skill Builder

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600+ free digital courses from Amazon Web Services covering cloud, generative AI, and machine learning. Includes learning plans and exam prep for AWS certifications such as AI Practitioner, Cloud Practitioner, and Solutions Architect.

Hugging Face Learn

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Free hands-on courses from Hugging Face covering transformers and NLP, deep reinforcement learning, AI agents, audio, computer vision, and diffusion models. Built around the open-source Hugging Face ecosystem with practical notebooks and assignments.

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Free Online Textbooks

Understanding Machine Learning

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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

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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

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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

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Neural networks explained clearly. A structured approach to understanding deep learning from fundamental principles, covering architectures, training methods, and modern techniques.

ML with Networks

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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

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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

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Complexity and optimization theory. Understand the algorithmic foundations of ML including computational complexity, optimization methods, and efficient learning algorithms.

Probability Theory

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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

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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

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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

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Comprehensive resource for preparing for machine learning interviews. Covers key concepts, common questions, and practical tips to ace your ML engineering interviews.

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MIT Free Books on AI & ML

Foundations of Machine Learning

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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

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A modern and comprehensive textbook covering neural networks, backpropagation, CNNs, transformers, GANs, diffusion models, and reinforcement learning with interactive notebooks.

Algorithms for Machine Learning

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Covers decision making under uncertainty with practical algorithms. Explores optimization, probabilistic reasoning, sequential decision problems, and multi-agent systems.

Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction

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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

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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

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By Goodfellow, Bengio, and Courville. The classic deep learning textbook covering linear algebra, probability, numerical computation, neural networks, CNNs, RNNs, and generative models.

Distributional Reinforcement Learning

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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

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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

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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

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Exploring limitations and opportunities in fairness-aware ML. Covers bias detection, fairness metrics, algorithmic fairness, and building equitable AI systems.

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