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Generative AI courses for users, leaders and developers

For a first generative AI course, Google's Introduction to Generative AI takes 45 minutes and earns a free badge.

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To build with it instead, Anthropic's Building with the Claude API is free and takes 10 hours.

Which generative AI course fits what you want to do?

Generative AI courses split three ways, and the right one depends on whether you will use the tools, decide on them or build with them.

Do you need to code for a generative AI course?

No, for the user and leader courses. Yes, for anything that builds apps. If you want a long, guided route from the basics to fine-tuning, RAG and LangChain, the IBM Generative AI Engineering Professional Certificate is a paid subscription that Coursera gives as "6 months at 6 hours a week". It starts at beginner level and ends with a guided project. Already building on AWS? The AWS Generative AI Developer Advanced Learning Plan is advanced, with labs, and takes 45 hours 20 minutes. AWS doesn't state its price.

Are there generative AI courses for your job?

Yes, and they are often the quicker win, because the examples match your work. Project managers can take PMI's Generative AI Overview for Project Managers, free and 1 hour long, with a free certificate. Marketers have Microsoft's Generative AI for Marketers Specialization, paid, given as "4 weeks to complete at 5 hours a week". Role courses go less deep on how the models work, so pair one with a general course if you want the background.

Which generative AI certifications can you take?

For an exam with a vendor name on it, the Databricks Certified Generative AI Engineer Associate costs $200 and is associate level. Databricks also lists Generative AI Fundamentals as free on-demand training. Teachers can look at Google's Gemini Certified Educator, free of charge. A course certificate shows you finished a course; a certification means you passed an exam.

Which certifications cover generative AI?

Live certifications in this topic group, in the shared certification order.

More generative AI courses

Recommended order: courses mainly about Generative AI first, then open now, wide audience, beginner level and lower cost. The 8 courses shown above are not repeated here unless you filter or search. How we order courses.

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