Learn AI
The best courses, certifications, podcasts and newsletters for learning AI, from complete beginner to practitioner, judged on quality, cost and how current they are.
Best AI Courses
The best AI courses online in 2026, ranked. Anthropic AI Fluency and Generative AI for Everyone lead for beginners; CS50 AI and fast.ai lead for coders.
Best AI Certifications
The best AI certifications for 2026, ranked on value and rigour. Google's ML Engineer and Microsoft AI-103 lead; AWS AI Practitioner suits beginners.
Best AI Podcasts
The best AI podcasts in 2026, ranked on insight, depth and independence. Dwarkesh leads for depth, Latent Space for builders, AI Daily Brief for news.
Best AI Newsletters
The best AI newsletters in 2026, ranked on insight, depth and independence. One Useful Thing and Simon Willison lead; The Batch is best for a weekly summary.
Other categories
AI Models & LLMs
Frontier and open-weight language models, APIs and embedding models, ranked on independent benchmarks, price and real-world reliability.
AI Assistants & Agents
Chatbots, AI search engines, browsers, extensions and autonomous agents for everyday work.
Writing & Content
Tools for drafting, editing, paraphrasing, summarising and polishing text, from essays to cover letters.
Image & Design
Image generators, photo editors, upscalers, headshots, logos and design tools.
Video, Voice & Music
AI video generation and editing, voice synthesis and cloning, music generation and transcription.
Developers & AI Infrastructure
Coding assistants, code review, agent frameworks, vector databases, observability, automation and website builders.
Business & Productivity
AI for marketing, sales, SEO, CRM, finance, legal, meetings, documents and data work.
Education & Learning
AI tutors, study tools, homework and maths help, research assistants and tools for teachers.
Detection & Trust
AI text detectors, image and deepfake detectors, and plagiarism checkers, ranked on independent accuracy tests.
Healthcare AI
AI for clinicians, hospitals and health businesses: scribes, revenue cycle, CRM, imaging, neurology, decision support and patient access, judged on clinical evidence, regulation and privacy.
Customer Service & Voice Agents
AI voice agents, receptionists, support agents and contact-center platforms that talk to your customers, ranked on resolution rates, latency, integrations and cost per conversation.
HR & Recruiting
AI for hiring and people teams: sourcing, screening, interview intelligence and HR assistants, with bias-audit and employment-law compliance weighed heavily.
Security & IT
AI for defenders and IT teams: threat detection, security operations (SOC) automation and IT service management.
AI Hardware & Devices
AI glasses, wearables, voice recorders, phones, laptops, GPUs, robots and smart-home devices, ranked on what the AI features actually do, battery life, privacy and price.