Google quietly dropped 10 free AI courses this year.
No keynote. No launch tweet. No newsletter blast.
They just shipped them to http://skills.google and walked away while everyone watched the model launches.
Save this before you pay for another paid course:
→ DeepMind AI Research Foundations
Build and fine-tune a language model from scratch. Tokenization, embeddings, transformers, the full pipeline. Built with University College London.
https://www.skills.google/paths/3135
→ Google AI Professional Certificate
7 courses, 20+ hands-on activities. Comes with 3 months of free Google AI Pro access. Updated February 2026.
https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/google-ai
→ Introduction to Agents and Google's Agent Ecosystem
The first GEAR pathway. Anatomy of an agent, reasoning loops, how agents integrate with Gemini Enterprise. Free with 35 monthly credits.
→ Develop Agents with Agent Development Kit (ADK)
Build agents that plan, reason, and execute tasks. Covers MCP (Model Context Protocol), tools, and memory.
https://www.skills.google/paths/3545
→ Deploy Production-Ready Agents
The next GEAR pathway. Cloud deployment, debugging, observability. Take prototype agents from local to enterprise-ready.
→ Scale Agents Across the Enterprise
GEAR's final path. CISO-approved guardrails, data grounding, scalability patterns for agents running across an org.
→ 5-Day AI Agents Intensive Vibe Coding Course (Google + Kaggle)
Runs June 15-19, 2026. First edition pulled 1.5M+ learners. Whitepapers, podcasts, code labs, daily livestreams, and a capstone project.
→ Gemini Code Assist for Everyone
Hands-on labs for architects, data scientists, and ops teams. Design validation, code review, model prototyping, infra-as-code.
https://www.skills.google/paths/3009
→ AI Boost Bites
10-minute video lessons from Google experts on Gemini, NotebookLM, AI Studio, and Gemini for Workspace. Each one ends with a hands-on challenge.
https://www.skills.google/paths/2480
→ Future-Proof Your AI Learning Strategy
Build an org-wide AI adoption plan with real strategies from execs at Telus and Deutsche Bank.
All free. All public. All ignored by everyone refreshing X for the next model release.
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