Coursera AI courses

AI courses and professional certificates on Coursera from IBM, Microsoft, Vanderbilt, DeepLearning.AI, and others.

Courses: 8
Free to start: 3
Free certificate: 0

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IBM RAG and Agentic AI Professional Certificate

The most complete paid certificate for developers: RAG and vector search first, then agents with LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AG2, BeeAI, and MCP, ending in a capstone. Long, and its time estimate is optimistic.

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Microsoft AI Agents: From Foundations to Applications Professional Certificate

A certificate path for teams on Azure: Azure AI Foundry, Semantic Kernel, and AutoGen, ending in multi-agent systems. Only worth it if you deploy on Microsoft's stack, and budget for Azure costs on top.

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Claude Code: Software Engineering with Generative AI Agents

Dr. Jules White's university course on running Claude Code like a small engineering team: project context, reusable commands, and parallel work with worktrees and subagents. The pick if you want a shareable certificate from a university.

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Vibe Coding Essentials - Build Apps with AI Specialization

Five short courses (Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, MCP, and an 8-hour "Learn to code with AI") from Scrimba. The broadest tool tour for beginners, and the 8-hour coding course helps you actually read what the AI writes.

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Google AI Essentials

Google’s short, no-experience-needed introduction to using AI tools at work: what AI is, prompting, productivity uses, and responsible use. There is no free option on Coursera; you pay the monthly subscription and get a Google certificate when you finish.

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Google Prompting Essentials

A practical prompting course from Google with no prerequisites: a five-step prompting framework, prompts for everyday work tasks, data analysis and presentations, and prompt chaining. Paid only, with a Google certificate at the end.

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AI For Everyone

Andrew Ng’s non-technical course on what AI can realistically do, how AI projects are run, and how companies adopt it. No technical or business background needed.

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Machine Learning Specialization

Andrew Ng’s classic machine learning course, rebuilt in Python with NumPy, scikit-learn, and TensorFlow. It goes from linear regression to neural networks, recommenders, and reinforcement learning, and expects basic coding and high-school math.

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