Abid Ali Awan Shares 5 Free AI Courses Covering LLMs, RAG and Fine-Tuning
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Updated · KDnuggets · Aug 7
Abid Ali Awan Shares 5 Free AI Courses Covering LLMs, RAG and Fine-Tuning
1 articles · Updated · KDnuggets · Aug 7
Summary
Five free courses highlighted by Abid Ali Awan target different entry points into modern AI, from workplace use of generative AI to building and deploying LLM applications.
The list argues older machine-learning courses often miss current skills now needed in practice—prompting, Transformers, fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation, agents and Hugging Face tools.
DataCamp’s 2–3 hour Introduction to AI for Work is positioned for beginners, while Easy-Vibe focuses on turning product ideas into prototypes with AI coding tools.
For more technical learners, Maxime Labonne’s LLM Course, DataTalks.Club’s 10-week LLM Zoomcamp and the Hugging Face LLM Course cover deeper topics such as quantization, vector search, evaluation, deployment and open-source model workflows.
Awan says the main barrier is time rather than cost, pointing readers to free compute options like Kaggle and Google Colab to start building small AI projects.