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.

AgenticDocumentation

Hermes Agent Documentation — Nous Research's Self-Improving Open-Source Agent

Nous Research

Official docs for running, extending and hacking on Hermes Agent, the MIT-licensed agent that writes and refines its own skills.

All LevelsFreeHands-on~1 hour beginner path, ~2-3 hours intermediate, ~4-6 hours advanced (official learning path)Oct 2, 2026
AgenticPaper

Agent Harness Engineering: A Survey

Junjie Li, Chandan K Reddy et al. (CMU, Virginia Tech, Amazon, Stanford and others)

A seven-layer map (ETCLOVG) of the infrastructure around an LLM agent, with 138 open-source projects sorted onto it.

IntermediateFreeSurvey paper plus a 372-entry companion list, self-paced readingOct 2, 2026
RAGCourse

AI Engineer Notebooks

calm.rocks

Build RAG, agent loops, evals and serving math from raw API calls in free Colab notebooks that run on Groq.

IntermediateFreeHands-on33 Colab notebooks across 13 sections, self-paced (no official time estimate)Oct 2, 2026
AgenticCourse

Building Reliable Agents (LangChain Academy)

LangChain

Take a customer-support agent from first run to production with tracing, datasets, LLM-as-judge and online evals.

IntermediateFreeHands-on29 lessons across 4 modules, self-paced (LangChain publishes no total-hours estimate)Oct 1, 2026
AgenticGuide

Quantifying infrastructure noise in agentic coding evals

Anthropic

Why a two-point lead on an agentic coding leaderboard can come from container limits rather than the model.

AdvancedFree~20 min readOct 1, 2026
AgenticGuide

Introducing advanced tool use on the Claude Developer Platform

Anthropic

Three patterns for agents with hundreds of tools: tool search, programmatic tool calling and tool use examples.

IntermediateFreeHands-on~25 min read; linked docs and cookbook notebooks are optional hands-on follow-upsOct 1, 2026
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ModelsGuide

jamesob's Guide to Running SOTA LLMs Locally

James O'Beirne

A real build log for serving frontier open-weight LLMs at home: budget tiers, 4x RTX PRO 6000, PCIe switches, vLLM and the BIOS/kernel fixes that make P2P work.

AdvancedFreeHands-on~1-2 hour read; the full multi-GPU build is a multi-week hardware projectSep 30, 2026
AgenticBook

Designing Multi-Agent Systems: Principles, Patterns, and Implementation for AI Agents

Victor Dibia

Build a complete multi-agent framework from scratch, then use it for workflows, orchestration, computer use, evals and MCP/A2A.

IntermediatePaidHands-on~395 pages, 15 chapters, plus companion codeSep 30, 2026
FrameworksCourse

Generative AI for Beginners (Version 3)

Microsoft

A free 21-lesson, code-first on-ramp from prompts to RAG, function calling, agents and fine-tuning, in Python and TypeScript.

BeginnerFreeHands-on21 lessons plus a setup lesson, self-paced (no official time estimate; most lessons have a short intro video)Sep 30, 2026
AgenticGuide

Agentic Engineering Patterns

Simon Willison

Simon Willison's free, growing guide to getting reliable, reviewable code out of coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex.

IntermediateFreeHands-on~2-3 hours to read all chapters; ongoing as new chapters are addedSep 29, 2026
AgenticBook

AI Agents in Depth: Design Principles and Engineering Practice

Bojie Li

A free, open-source 10-chapter textbook on building AI agents, from context engineering and memory to evals, post-training and multi-agent systems, with runnable Python experiments.

IntermediateFreeHands-on10 chapters; ~25-40 hours to read, plus optional runnable experiments (some need a GPU)Sep 29, 2026
MLTutorial

Train Your Own LLM From Scratch

angelos-p (GitHub)

Build and train a ~10M-parameter GPT on your laptop in six guided parts, from tokenizer to text generation

BeginnerFreeHands-onWorkshop-length, six parts; the default ~10M-parameter model trains in ~45 min on an M3 Pro laptopSep 28, 2026
MLCourse

10-423/10-623/10-723: Generative AI (CMU, Fall 2026)

Carnegie Mellon University (Matt Gormley & Aran Nayebi)

CMU's full-semester generative AI course, from RNN language models to diffusion, MoE, reasoning models and agents

IntermediateFreeHands-onOne semester (Fall 2026): 26 lectures of 80 min plus recitations, 5-6 homeworks and a projectSep 28, 2026
AgenticPaper

Agentic Large Language Models, a Survey

Leiden University (Plaat, van Duijn, van Stein, Preuss, van der Putten, Batenburg)

A peer-reviewed map of agentic LLMs organised as reason, act and interact, with a five-point research agenda.

IntermediateFreeLong-form journal survey; several hours for a full read, self-pacedSep 27, 2026
AgenticCourse

5-Day AI Agents: Intensive Vibe Coding Course With Google

Google / Kaggle

Google's free five-day agents intensive, rebuilt around vibe coding: tools, skills, memory, security and production deployment.

All LevelsFreeHands-onCertificate5 days, ~1-2 hours/day self-paced plus a 45-60 min daily livestream; optional capstoneSep 27, 2026
MCPDocumentation

MCP Toolbox for Databases Documentation

Google

Give AI agents safe, pooled, observable database tools over MCP, defined in a single tools.yaml.

IntermediateFreeHands-on~1 hour for a local quickstart; roughly half a day self-paced to cover configuration, security and deployment (estimate)Sep 26, 2026
Fine-TuningDocumentation

SkyRL Documentation — Modular Reinforcement Learning for LLMs and Agents

NovaSky-AI (UC Berkeley Sky Computing Lab, with Anyscale)

Train multi-turn, tool-using LLM agents with RL on your own GPUs, including running Tinker scripts unchanged.

AdvancedFreeHands-onSelf-paced; quickstart is one GRPO run on GSM8K using 4 GPUs, and working through the tutorials plus one recipe takes a few days (estimate)Sep 26, 2026
AgenticDocumentation

A2UI Documentation — Agent-to-User Interface Protocol for Agent-Driven UIs

Google (with CopilotKit and the A2UI open-source community)

Learn how AI agents can return rich, native UIs as safe declarative JSON instead of text or executable code.

IntermediateFreeHands-on~5 min quickstart; roughly 3-4 hours self-paced to work through the concepts and guides (estimate)Sep 26, 2026
MLCourse

6.7960 Deep Learning (MIT, Fall 2026)

MIT (Phillip Isola, Kaiming He)

MIT's graduate deep learning course, co-taught by Kaiming He and Phillip Isola, covering architectures, representation learning, scaling laws and generative models.

AdvancedFreeHands-on14 weeks, Sep 10 – Dec 15, 2026, with 24 lecture slots; about 90 hours of coursework per csdiy.wiki's estimateSep 25, 2026
MLBook

The Little Book of Deep Learning

François Fleuret (University of Geneva)

A dense, free ~185-page deep learning primer that takes you from losses and backprop to transformers, diffusion, quantization and adapters.

IntermediateFree~185-page phone-format PDF; about 8-12 hours of focused readingSep 25, 2026
ModelsCourse

CS 2881R: AI Safety (Harvard, Fall 2026)

Harvard University (Boaz Barak)

Harvard's graduate AI safety seminar, 2026 edition: RL post-training, interpretability, cyber and bio risk, taught with guests from Anthropic and OpenAI.

AdvancedFreeHands-on13 weekly lectures (~2h45m each), Sep 3 – Dec 3, 2026; recordings posted to YouTube, sometimes with a delaySep 25, 2026
RAGCourse

Building AI Assistants with On-Device Memory

DeepLearning.AI and Qdrant

Build a private, offline multimodal memory for an AI assistant with Qdrant Edge, CLIP, YOLO and Whisper.

IntermediateFreemiumHands-on~1 hour 4 minutes of lessons plus optional notebooks, self-pacedSep 24, 2026
Fine-TuningVideo

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback: Post-Training Course

Nathan Lambert

Nathan Lambert's free video lecture series on LLM post-training: reward models, RL, DPO, reasoning models and agents.

IntermediateFreeLecture 0 plus 13 video lectures, 3 Q&A sessions and bonus talks, self-paced; lecture lengths varySep 24, 2026
MLCourse

CS 224R: Deep Reinforcement Learning (Stanford, Spring 2026)

Stanford University (Chelsea Finn)

Chelsea Finn's Stanford deep RL course, from policy gradients to RL for LLM preference optimization and reasoning.

AdvancedFreeHands-on10-week quarter: 17 lectures (~90 min each), 3 PyTorch homeworks and a final project; self-paced if following the public materialsSep 24, 2026