Free · Google & DeepMind

Google & DeepMind — free AI courses worth your time.

Google publishes some of the highest-quality free AI material on the internet. DeepMind adds research-grade depth. Here's our pick.

AI Literacy & ML Foundations

Great starting points — Google's intro courses are interactive and free.

FreeBeginner~10 hrs

Google AI Essentials

Google · Coursera

Self-paced course teaching anyone how to use AI tools at work. Practical prompting, productivity, responsible use.

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FreeBeginner~15 hrs

Machine Learning Crash Course

Google for Developers

Google's classic free ML course with videos, interactive visualizations, and TensorFlow exercises. Recently updated.

InteractiveStart →
FreeBeginner~4 hrs

Introduction to Generative AI

Google Cloud Skills Boost

Bite-sized course explaining what GenAI is, how LLMs work, and Google Cloud tools to build with.

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FreeBeginner~5 hrs

Kaggle Learn — Intro to ML

Kaggle (Google)

Hands-on micro-courses with notebooks you run in-browser. The fastest practical intro to ML in Python.

Hands-onStart →

Build with Gemini & Google Cloud

Gemini-specific resources and learning paths for Google Cloud's GenAI stack.

FreeIntermediate~20 hrs

Generative AI Learning Path

Google Cloud Skills Boost

A 10-course learning path covering LLMs, image generation, responsible AI, attention models, and applications.

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FreeIntermediateSelf-paced

Gemini API Quickstart

Google AI for Developers

Official docs to start building with Gemini — Python & JS, multimodal, function calling, system instructions.

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FreeIntermediate~5 hrs

Kaggle Learn — Intro to Deep Learning

Kaggle (Google)

Neural network basics with Keras / TensorFlow. Comes after Intro to ML and pairs well with Andrew Ng's specialization.

Hands-onStart →
FreeIntermediate~6 hrs

5-Day Generative AI Intensive

Kaggle × Google

A community-built but Google-aligned 5-day intensive covering embeddings, RAG, agents, fine-tuning with Gemini.

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Research-grade — DeepMind

For students who want to go deep into reinforcement learning and the science behind modern AI.

FreeAdvanced~20 hrs

DeepMind × UCL — Reinforcement Learning

DeepMind · YouTube

David Silver's lectures on RL — still the gold-standard introduction to the field that produced AlphaGo.

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FreeAdvanced~25 hrs

DeepMind × UCL — Deep Learning Lectures

DeepMind · YouTube

A modern survey of deep learning from DeepMind researchers — CNNs, transformers, generative models, RLHF.

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FreeIntermediateReading

Google & DeepMind Research Blog

Google Research / DeepMind

Read the source. Follow the original papers and blog posts — Transformers, AlphaFold, Gemini, Veo, and beyond.

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