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.
For Leaders & Executives
Build AI fluency for strategic decision-making. No coding required.
Claude 101
↗Learn how to use Claude for everyday work tasks and explore resources for advanced learning.
AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations
↗Learn to collaborate with AI systems effectively, efficiently, ethically, and safely.
Introduction to Claude Cowork
↗Learn to work alongside Claude on your real files and projects with the Cowork task loop.
Google AI Essentials
↗Learn how to use AI to boost productivity, from writing prompts to using AI tools for data analysis and content creation.
AI for Everyone
↗Andrew Ng's famous non-technical course explaining what AI can and cannot do, covering strategy and social impact.
AI Transformation Playbook
↗Andrew Ng's guide on how to lead an AI transformation in your organization.
Elements of AI
↗A free online course for everyone interested in learning what AI is and how it will affect our lives — 750K+ students enrolled.
For Builders & Developers
Integrate AI into your development workflow. Ship AI-powered features.
AI Practitioner Certification Pass
→Complete practitioner access to all AI economics, systems mapping, and model arbitrage curriculum modules.
Building with the Claude API
↗Comprehensive course covering API requests, prompt design, and integrating Claude with external services.
Claude Code in Action
↗Integrate Claude Code into your development workflow — read files, run commands, edit code, and automate tasks.
Introduction to Agent Skills
↗Build, configure, and share Skills in Claude Code — reusable markdown instructions for tasks.
Introduction to Subagents
↗Use and create sub-agents in Claude Code to manage context and delegate tasks.
ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers
↗Learn prompt engineering best practices from OpenAI — applicable across all LLMs.
LangChain for LLM Application Development
↗Build LLM-powered applications using LangChain's framework for chaining, memory, and agents.
Building Systems with the ChatGPT API
↗Build multi-step systems using large language models — chains of prompts, evaluation, and guardrails.
For Architects & Infrastructure
Design production AI systems. MCP, cloud integrations, RAG, and infrastructure.
Introduction to Model Context Protocol
↗Build MCP servers and clients from scratch. Master tools, resources, and prompts.
MCP: Advanced Topics
↗Advanced implementation including sampling, notifications, file system access, and transport mechanisms.
Claude with Amazon Bedrock
↗Full training for working with Anthropic models through AWS Bedrock.
Claude with Google Cloud Vertex AI
↗Working with Anthropic models through Google Cloud's Vertex AI.
Building RAG Agents with LLMs
↗Build production RAG pipelines with NVIDIA's enterprise AI tooling.
LLMOps
↗Learn to build LLM pipelines including data prep, training, and deployment with best practices.
Vector Databases: from Embeddings to Applications
↗Comprehensive guide to vector databases, embedding models, and similarity search for AI applications.
For Data Scientists & ML Engineers
Fine-tuning, evaluation, model comparison, and advanced ML techniques.
Finetuning Large Language Models
↗Learn when and how to fine-tune LLMs. Covers data preparation, training, and evaluation.
Evaluating and Debugging Generative AI
↗Learn systematic approaches to evaluating and debugging generative AI models.
Building Applications with Vector Databases
↗Hands-on guide to building semantic search, RAG, and recommendation systems with vector databases.
Stanford CS229: Machine Learning
↗Andrew Ng's legendary Stanford ML course. Covers supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning foundations.
MIT 6.S191: Introduction to Deep Learning
↗MIT's fast-paced deep learning course covering neural networks, CNNs, transformers, and generative models.
Hugging Face NLP Course
↗Free NLP course covering transformers, fine-tuning, and deploying models with the Hugging Face ecosystem.
For Product Managers
AI product strategy, user research with AI, and feature economics.
AI Practitioner Certification Pass
→Complete practitioner access to all AI economics, systems mapping, and model arbitrage curriculum modules.
AI Product Management
↗Foundational AI concepts for product managers including feasibility analysis and team building.
How Business Thinkers Can Start Building AI Plugins
↗Non-technical guide to building AI plugins and understanding AI tool integrations.
AI-Powered Product Development
↗Comprehensive guide on integrating AI into product development lifecycle — from ideation to deployment.
Pair Programming with a Large Language Model
↗Learn to use LLMs as coding assistants — essential for PMs who want to prototype AI features.
For Security & Governance
AI safety, red teaming, compliance, and responsible AI deployment.
Red Teaming LLM Applications
↗Learn to identify vulnerabilities in LLM applications through systematic red teaming.
AI Safety Fundamentals
↗Comprehensive AI safety curriculum covering alignment, interpretability, and governance.
Responsible AI Practices
↗Google's guidelines for responsible AI including fairness, interpretability, privacy, and security.
NIST AI Risk Management Framework
↗The U.S. government's AI risk management framework — the emerging compliance standard.
For Educators & Nonprofits
Bring AI fluency into classrooms, teams, and organizations.
AI Fluency for Educators
↗Empowers faculty and educational leaders to apply AI Fluency in teaching.
Teaching AI Fluency
↗Empowers academic faculty to teach and assess AI Fluency in instructor-led settings.
AI Fluency for Students
↗Develop AI Fluency skills that enhance learning, career planning, and academic success.
AI Fluency for Nonprofits
↗Develop AI fluency to increase organizational impact while staying true to mission.
For AI Economics & Strategy
AI cost analysis, unit economics, and strategic AI investment decisions.
AI Unit Economics Benchmark (AUEB)
→Calculate the unit economics of your AI features — cost per interaction, margin analysis, and break-even points.
Product Economics Curriculum
→218 modules across 18 tracks covering engineering economics, AI operations, enterprise architecture, R&D capital management, leadership, M&A integration, and applied practice.
AI Economics Deep Dive Guide
→Complete guide to AI cost structures: inference, training, fine-tuning, and infrastructure economics.
How to Calculate Unit Economics for AI Products (Blog)
→Step-by-step framework to calculate AI feature profitability in 30 minutes.
Recommended Reading
Books that shaped my thinking on AI economics and strategy.
Prediction Machines
Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb
The economics of AI as a prediction technology. Essential framework for understanding AI cost-benefit analysis.
The AI Organization
David De Cremer
How to restructure organizations around AI capabilities — org design meets AI strategy.
AI Superpowers
Kai-Fu Lee
China, Silicon Valley, and the new world order of AI. Strategic context for anyone making AI investment decisions.
Human Compatible
Stuart Russell
The definitive book on AI safety and alignment from a leading AI researcher at UC Berkeley.
Designing Machine Learning Systems
Chip Huyen
Production ML systems engineering — the bridge between prototype and production AI.
The Coming Wave
Mustafa Suleyman
DeepMind co-founder on AI, synthetic biology, and the challenge of containment. Board-level required reading.
AI Cost & Monitoring Tools
Open-source tools for managing AI costs, monitoring usage, and optimizing performance.
LiteLLM
↗Unified API gateway for 100+ LLM providers. Essential for model routing optimization.
Helicone
↗Open-source LLM observability platform. Track costs, latency, and usage across providers.
Langfuse
↗Open-source LLM engineering platform for traces, evaluations, and prompt management.
Instructor
↗Structured LLM output extraction with Pydantic. Reduces token waste and parsing errors.
GPTCache
↗Semantic caching for LLM queries — cache similar queries to reduce inference costs.
RAGAS
↗Framework for evaluating RAG pipeline quality — measures faithfulness, relevance, and context precision.
Phoenix (Arize)
↗ML observability for LLMs — trace, evaluate, and debug AI applications in production.
OpenRouter
↗Unified API for accessing multiple LLM providers with automatic model routing and fallbacks.
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After the Courses
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