Curated by Richard Ewing

The AI Learning Hub.

45 curated resources across 8 learning tracks — from Anthropic, Google, Stanford, MIT, NVIDIA, and more. Each with my editorial commentary on what matters and why.

Most courses are free, self-paced, and include completion certificates. Curated for technology leaders, builders, and decision-makers.

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For Leaders & Executives

Build AI fluency for strategic decision-making. No coding required.

7 resources

Claude 101

Anthropic

Learn how to use Claude for everyday work tasks and explore resources for advanced learning.

Richard's Take: Start here. Every technology leader should understand what Claude can and cannot do before making procurement or build decisions.

AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations

Anthropic

Learn to collaborate with AI systems effectively, efficiently, ethically, and safely.

Richard's Take: The best single course for board directors and C-suite executives. Covers the ethical and safety considerations that matter in governance conversations.

Introduction to Claude Cowork

Anthropic

Learn to work alongside Claude on your real files and projects with the Cowork task loop.

Richard's Take: Hands-on course for leaders who want to use Claude as a daily productivity tool — not just understand it theoretically.

Google AI Essentials

Google

Learn how to use AI to boost productivity, from writing prompts to using AI tools for data analysis and content creation.

Richard's Take: Google's entry-level AI course. Excellent complement to Anthropic's offering — gives you vocabulary from both major ecosystems.

AI for Everyone

DeepLearning.AI

Andrew Ng's famous non-technical course explaining what AI can and cannot do, covering strategy and social impact.

Richard's Take: The foundational course that started it all. Still the best for building executive-level AI intuition without any technical background.

AI Transformation Playbook

Landing AI

Andrew Ng's guide on how to lead an AI transformation in your organization.

Richard's Take: Read this before hiring your first ML engineer. It prevents the most common and expensive mistakes in AI adoption.

Elements of AI

University of Helsinki

A free online course for everyone interested in learning what AI is and how it will affect our lives — 750K+ students enrolled.

Richard's Take: The most-enrolled AI course in history. Great for board members who want a rigorous but accessible foundation.
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For Builders & Developers

Integrate AI into your development workflow. Ship AI-powered features.

8 resources

AI Practitioner Certification Pass

Richard Ewing

Complete practitioner access to all AI economics, systems mapping, and model arbitrage curriculum modules.

Richard's Take: If you are shipping AI features, you must understand their unit economics before deployment. My flagship course designed specifically for engineers.

Building with the Claude API

Anthropic

Comprehensive course covering API requests, prompt design, and integrating Claude with external services.

Richard's Take: Essential for any developer building AI features. Pair this with my AUEB calculator to validate your unit economics before you ship.

Claude Code in Action

Anthropic

Integrate Claude Code into your development workflow — read files, run commands, edit code, and automate tasks.

Richard's Take: The practical "get things done" course. If your team uses Claude Code, this is required training.

Introduction to Agent Skills

Anthropic

Build, configure, and share Skills in Claude Code — reusable markdown instructions for tasks.

Richard's Take: Skills are how you scale AI productivity across a team. Eliminates the "everyone prompts differently" problem.

Introduction to Subagents

Anthropic

Use and create sub-agents in Claude Code to manage context and delegate tasks.

Richard's Take: Advanced but critical for complex codebases. Subagents keep main conversations clean while delegating specialized work.

ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers

DeepLearning.AI

Learn prompt engineering best practices from OpenAI — applicable across all LLMs.

Richard's Take: Cross-platform prompt engineering fundamentals. The principles apply to Claude, GPT, and Gemini equally.

LangChain for LLM Application Development

DeepLearning.AI

Build LLM-powered applications using LangChain's framework for chaining, memory, and agents.

Richard's Take: Useful for understanding orchestration patterns even if you don't use LangChain. The mental models transfer to any framework.

Building Systems with the ChatGPT API

DeepLearning.AI

Build multi-step systems using large language models — chains of prompts, evaluation, and guardrails.

Richard's Take: The production engineering course. Covers patterns you'll need for any serious AI deployment: chains, evaluation, safety.
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For Architects & Infrastructure

Design production AI systems. MCP, cloud integrations, RAG, and infrastructure.

7 resources

Introduction to Model Context Protocol

Anthropic

Build MCP servers and clients from scratch. Master tools, resources, and prompts.

Richard's Take: MCP is the emerging standard for AI-to-tool communication. Exogram uses MCP. This is the foundation course.

MCP: Advanced Topics

Anthropic

Advanced implementation including sampling, notifications, file system access, and transport mechanisms.

Richard's Take: Production MCP deployments require understanding sampling and transport — this covers both.

Claude with Amazon Bedrock

Anthropic

Full training for working with Anthropic models through AWS Bedrock.

Richard's Take: If your infrastructure runs on AWS, this is how you deploy Claude at enterprise scale.

Claude with Google Cloud Vertex AI

Anthropic

Working with Anthropic models through Google Cloud's Vertex AI.

Richard's Take: The GCP equivalent of the Bedrock course. Choose based on your cloud provider.

Building RAG Agents with LLMs

NVIDIA

Build production RAG pipelines with NVIDIA's enterprise AI tooling.

Richard's Take: The enterprise RAG course. Covers retrieval, embedding, reranking, and optimization at scale.

LLMOps

DeepLearning.AI

Learn to build LLM pipelines including data prep, training, and deployment with best practices.

Richard's Take: ML operations for LLMs. Essential for teams moving from prototype to production AI systems.

Vector Databases: from Embeddings to Applications

DeepLearning.AI

Comprehensive guide to vector databases, embedding models, and similarity search for AI applications.

Richard's Take: Understanding vector DBs is essential for RAG economics. This course covers the infrastructure you'll be paying for.
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For Data Scientists & ML Engineers

Fine-tuning, evaluation, model comparison, and advanced ML techniques.

6 resources

Finetuning Large Language Models

DeepLearning.AI

Learn when and how to fine-tune LLMs. Covers data preparation, training, and evaluation.

Richard's Take: The ROI of fine-tuning is often misunderstood. Take this course, then use AUEB to validate whether fine-tuning is economically justified for your use case.

Evaluating and Debugging Generative AI

DeepLearning.AI

Learn systematic approaches to evaluating and debugging generative AI models.

Richard's Take: Evaluation is where most AI projects fail. This course teaches you to catch problems before they reach production.

Building Applications with Vector Databases

DeepLearning.AI

Hands-on guide to building semantic search, RAG, and recommendation systems with vector databases.

Richard's Take: Practical applications of vector databases beyond basic RAG. Worth taking after the architecture track.

Stanford CS229: Machine Learning

Stanford

Andrew Ng's legendary Stanford ML course. Covers supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning foundations.

Richard's Take: The gold standard ML course. If you have time for only one deep technical course, this is it.

MIT 6.S191: Introduction to Deep Learning

MIT

MIT's fast-paced deep learning course covering neural networks, CNNs, transformers, and generative models.

Richard's Take: Condensed but rigorous. Great for ML engineers who want to understand the theory behind the APIs they're calling.

Hugging Face NLP Course

Hugging Face

Free NLP course covering transformers, fine-tuning, and deploying models with the Hugging Face ecosystem.

Richard's Take: The open-source AI ecosystem course. Essential if you're evaluating open-source vs. proprietary model decisions.
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For Product Managers

AI product strategy, user research with AI, and feature economics.

5 resources
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For Security & Governance

AI safety, red teaming, compliance, and responsible AI deployment.

4 resources
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For Educators & Nonprofits

Bring AI fluency into classrooms, teams, and organizations.

4 resources
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For AI Economics & Strategy

AI cost analysis, unit economics, and strategic AI investment decisions.

4 resources
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Recommended Reading

Books that shaped my thinking on AI economics and strategy.

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AI Cost & Monitoring Tools

Open-source tools for managing AI costs, monitoring usage, and optimizing performance.

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Courses teach you AI. I teach you the economics.

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