AI:Learning

A curated library of the best AI learning resources—courses, tutorials, docs, and talks on agentic AI, MCP, Agent Skills, RAG, machine learning, fine-tuning, models, and frameworks, for AI engineers and technical teams.

AgenticBook

Context Engineering: Build Consistent, Accurate, Predictable AI Systems

Manning (Boni García)

Twelve chapters on instructions, retrieval, tools, memory, evaluation and governance — in Python, JavaScript and Java.

IntermediatePaidHands-on~393 pages across 12 chapters, ~15-20 hoursAug 18, 2026
FrameworksDocumentation

Outlines Documentation — Structured Generation for LLMs

dottxt (.txt)

Stop parsing and retrying JSON — constrain decoding so the model cannot emit an invalid output.

IntermediateFreeHands-on~2-3 hours to work the guide and examples; ongoing reference thereafterAug 18, 2026
RAGTutorial

RAG Blueprint — Production-Grade Retrieval and Ranking with Vespa

Vespa

The RAG tutorial that teaches ranking — phased retrieval, recall evaluation, and a trained first-phase ranker.

AdvancedFreeHands-on~4-6 hours hands-on, self-paced — explicitly not a 'RAG in 5 minutes' quickstartAug 18, 2026
AgenticDocumentation

AGENTS.md — Open Format for Guiding Coding Agents

Agentic AI Foundation (Linux Foundation)

One Markdown file that every coding agent reads — replace your .cursorrules sprawl in an afternoon.

All LevelsFreeHands-on~15 min read, plus ~1 hour to write and test your first fileAug 18, 2026
ModelsDocumentation

Hugging Face Diffusers Documentation

Hugging Face

The standard PyTorch toolkit for image, video and audio generation — inference, LoRA adapters, quantization and ten maintained training scripts.

IntermediateFreeHands-on~5-8 hours for Quickstart, inference and one training script end to end; a reference thereafterAug 17, 2026
MLDocumentation

Triton Documentation — Writing GPU Kernels in Python

Triton (triton-lang)

Ten worked kernels — from vector add to fused attention — that teach GPU programming at block level in Python instead of CUDA.

AdvancedFreeHands-on~6-10 hours to work through the ten tutorials; weeks of practice to write kernels that beat a vendor libraryAug 17, 2026
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MLDocumentation

DeepSpeed Documentation and Tutorials

DeepSpeed (deepspeedai)

The reference for ZeRO, offloading and 3D parallelism — how to train or fine-tune a model that does not fit on your GPUs.

AdvancedFreeHands-on~1 hour for Getting Started + ZeRO; ~10-15 hours to work through the 40+ tutorials relevant to your setupAug 17, 2026
RAGDocumentation

LanceDB Documentation — Multimodal Lakehouse for AI

LanceDB

One storage layer for vector search, full-text search, versioning and training-data loading — instead of a vector DB bolted beside your data lake.

IntermediateFreeHands-on~4-6 hours to work through Quickstart, Core Concepts and Embeddings & Search; a reference you keep open after thatAug 17, 2026
AgenticDocumentation

AP2 — Agent Payments Protocol Documentation

Google

The open spec for letting an agent spend money for a user — and cryptographically prove it was authorized.

IntermediateFreeHands-on~2-3 hours to read the specification end to end; about a day to run the reference samplesAug 16, 2026
FrameworksDocumentation

W&B Weave Documentation

Weights & Biases

One decorator to trace an LLM app, and the same scorers for offline evals, live monitors and guardrails.

IntermediateFreemiumHands-on~2-3 hours for the quickstart, tracing and evaluation tutorials; reference material thereafterAug 16, 2026
ModelsPaper

The MiniMax-M2 Series: Mini Activations Unleashing Max Real-World Intelligence

MiniMax

The full training account of a 229.9B-parameter MoE with 9.8B active — built end-to-end for agentic work.

AdvancedFree~3-4 hours for a careful full read; ~45 minutes for the RL and evaluation sections aloneAug 16, 2026
AgenticDocumentation

OpenHands Software Agent SDK

OpenHands

Build your own coding agent — sandboxed execution, custom tools and multi-LLM routing, all documented.

IntermediateFreeHands-on~4-6 hours to work through getting-started plus the architecture section; reference material thereafterAug 16, 2026
FrameworksDocumentation

Opik — Open-Source LLM Evaluation, Tracing and Optimization

Comet

Trace it, score it, gate it in CI — the whole LLM evaluation loop, self-hostable under Apache-2.0.

IntermediateFreemiumHands-on~2 hours to instrument an app and run a first evaluation; ongoing reference thereafterAug 15, 2026
Fine-TuningDocumentation

NeMo RL Documentation — Scalable Post-Training and Reinforcement Learning for LLMs

NVIDIA

The post-training stack behind Nemotron — one codebase from a single GPU to thousand-GPU GRPO runs.

AdvancedFreeHands-on~4-6 hours for the quickstart and one algorithm guide; multi-day for a real cluster runAug 15, 2026
RAGDocumentation

RAGFlow Documentation — Open-Source RAG Engine with Deep Document Understanding

InfiniFlow

Stand up a self-hosted, citation-backed document QA system over messy enterprise PDFs in an afternoon.

IntermediateFreemiumHands-on~2-3 hours for the Docker quickstart plus dataset configuration; ongoing reference thereafterAug 15, 2026
AgenticDocumentation

AG-UI Protocol Documentation — Agent-User Interaction Protocol

CopilotKit / AG-UI Protocol

The missing protocol layer between your agent backend and the screen a human is actually looking at.

IntermediateFreeHands-on~3-4 hours to read the protocol reference and wire up a first agent; ongoing reference thereafterAug 15, 2026
AgenticDocumentation

Terminal-Bench 2.0 and Harbor Documentation

Terminal-Bench

Score your terminal agent against the benchmark everyone quotes, and learn how the harness decides pass or fail.

AdvancedFreeHands-on~1-2 hours to a first scored benchmark run; considerably longer to build and tune a custom agentAug 13, 2026
MLDocumentation

NVIDIA NeMo Curator Documentation - Scalable Dataset Curation for LLM Training

NVIDIA

The GPU-accelerated pipeline NVIDIA uses to clean, dedupe and synthesize training data at trillion-token scale.

AdvancedFreeHands-on~3-5 hours for the per-modality quickstarts; ongoing reference for production pipeline workAug 13, 2026
FrameworksDocumentation

Promptfoo Documentation - LLM Evals and Red Teaming

Promptfoo

Turn prompt tweaking into a test suite, then attack your own agent before someone else does.

IntermediateFreemiumHands-on~2-4 hours to work through the eval and red-team quickstarts; ongoing reference thereafterAug 13, 2026
MLCourse

MIT 6.S184: Introduction to Flow Matching and Diffusion Models (2026)

MIT CSAIL

Derive flow matching and diffusion from the SDEs up, then build a latent diffusion model from scratch.

AdvancedFreeHands-on~12-15 hours self-paced (5 lectures + 3 PyTorch labs); taught over MIT's January IAP termAug 13, 2026
MLDocumentation

Ray Documentation — Distributed Compute for AI and Python

Ray Project

One API for distributed data, training, tuning and serving — the compute layer under most in-house AI platforms.

IntermediateFreeHands-on~4-6 hours for the core library tutorials, then ongoing referenceAug 12, 2026
Fine-TuningDocumentation

LLM Compressor Documentation

vLLM Project

The official recipe book for quantizing an LLM into a format vLLM serves — FP8, INT4, NVFP4 and MXFP4.

AdvancedFreeHands-on~1-2 hours to run a first FP8 recipe, then ongoing referenceAug 12, 2026
MLCourse

MIT 6.5940: TinyML and Efficient AI Computing (Fall 2026)

MIT HAN Lab

Song Han's MIT course on making models small and fast — pruning, quantization and LLM deployment, with five labs.

AdvancedFreeHands-on25 lectures over ~14 weeks plus 5 labs; ~6-8 h/week self-pacedAug 12, 2026
RAGDocumentation

pgvector — Open-Source Vector Similarity Search for Postgres

pgvector (Andrew Kane)

Run RAG retrieval inside the Postgres you already operate — HNSW indexes, metadata filters and hybrid search, in SQL.

IntermediateFreeHands-on~2-3 hours to read end-to-end, then ongoing referenceAug 12, 2026