Google Cloud introduces free AI courses on its skill boost platform

Most of these are just one-day courses, and upon completion, Google will offer a virtual badge.

Introduction to AI is one of the free course available on Google Cloud (Image credit: Google)

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If you are planning to brush up on your AI knowledge or add new skills related to artificial intelligence, then here is some good news. Google just announced nine free AI-specific courses and a quest on its cloud skill boost platform, which includes courses for cutting-edge AI technologies like generative AI, large language models, and image generation.

Users from across the world can now access these courses for free. Most of these are just one-day courses, and upon completion, Google will offer a virtual badge, which will be displayed on the Google cloud skills boost profile.

Learn more about #generativeAI at no cost! 🙌

This Google Cloud Skills Boost learning path will teach you the foundational knowledge to understand Generative AI and Google Cloud’s approach to this transformative technology → https://t.co/uLeaKNpq67 pic.twitter.com/nRW1kcMZCR

— Google Cloud (@googlecloud) June 4, 2023

These courses use a simple format, where there will be a video followed by a quiz. Some of these courses also have additional documentation, and if a course consists of a lab, then a user has to purchase an individual subscription or can unlock the same for free by participating in various campaigns.

A monthly Google Cloud skill subscription costs $29, and the annual plan is priced at $299. Similarly, users can also buy individual courses as per the requirement.

Free AI courses offered by Google:

Introduction to Generative AI
Introduction to Large Language Models
Introduction to Responsible AI
Introduction to Image Generation
Encoder-Decoder Architecture
Attention Mechanism
Transformer Models and BERT Model
Create Image Captioning Models
Introduction to Generative AI Studio
Generative AI Explorer – Vertex AI (Quest)