Microsoft Offers 5 Free GitHub AI Courses Spanning 10 to 12 Weeks
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Updated · KDnuggets · Sep 15
Microsoft Offers 5 Free GitHub AI Courses Spanning 10 to 12 Weeks
3 articles · Updated · KDnuggets · Sep 15
Summary
Five free Microsoft GitHub curricula now cover the path from beginner data science to generative AI and agentic systems, with lessons, quizzes, assignments, code examples and projects.
The lineup starts with Data Science for Beginners—10 weeks, 20 lessons—and expands to 12-week machine learning and AI courses that teach statistics, model training, neural networks, computer vision and NLP.
Newer tracks focus on current AI workflows: Generative AI for Beginners has 21 lessons on prompt engineering, RAG, vector databases, fine-tuning and security, while AI Agents for Beginners has 18 lessons on tool use, memory and multi-agent systems.
Microsoft positions the courses as a low-cost entry point to AI learning, though some exercises may still require access to an AI API or Microsoft Foundry, with some models able to run locally.