Almost every major AI company, cloud provider and university now teaches AI for free, but the choices can feel like a maze. The AI Academy Atlas is your map: free AI learning from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, IBM, AWS, NVIDIA, Hugging Face, DeepLearning.AI, Harvard, MIT, Stanford and more, each with an honest cost label so you always know what is free, what earns a certificate and what is not.
Whether you are eight or eighty, a parent, a teacher, a business owner or a future builder, there is a good first step for you. Start with a path that fits you, or browse the universities one by one. Everything we recommend can be completed for $0, and where a certificate costs money we say so plainly.
Two pages, two ways in. Pick the one that matches how you like to learn.
A few of the best places to earn a real, free credential. Each one is issued by the provider, not by us. The full catalogue, with every cost label, lives in the directory.
Cost labels follow each provider's pages when we checked them. Some providers sell optional paid plans or paid certificates; the Atlas always marks them.
If you manage products or projects, finish your Atlas journey on our own PILOT Program™: a free, 12-week agentic product management track with ten courses and a free certification tracker.
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