The best free Google AI courses, curated
Google publishes some of the best free, beginner-friendly ML education on the internet: its Machine Learning Crash Course, with animated videos and interactive exercises, and Kaggle Learn's short, hands-on micro-courses. Below is a gentle, practical on-ramp into machine learning — no cost, all in the browser.
These are curated links to free courses published by Google (Machine Learning Crash Course) and Kaggle. All content belongs to Google, Kaggle and their authors. AnybodyCanAI is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Google or Kaggle. The names are used only to identify the source of each course.
Machine Learning Crash Course
Google's fast, practical intro to ML
Google · 2024 refresh · Google for Developers
Summary
Google's fast-paced introduction to machine learning: regression and classification, working with numerical and categorical data, generalization, neural networks, embeddings, a primer on LLMs, and putting ML into production — with animated videos and interactive exercises throughout.
One of the most polished free ML intros anywhere, and genuinely beginner-friendly thanks to its interactive visualizations. A great first structured pass over the whole ML landscape before you go deep.
Schedule
Access
Completely free — videos, interactive visualizations and hands-on exercises run in the browser. No signup required.
Materials & links
Source: Google — all links open on the provider's own site.
Kaggle Learn: Intro to Machine Learning
Build your first models in a few hours
Kaggle (Google) · Self-paced · Kaggle Learn
Summary
A short, hands-on micro-course: how models work, exploring data with pandas, building your first decision-tree and random-forest models, and validating them — all in the browser.
The quickest possible "I trained a real model" win. Bite-sized, entirely hands-on, and free — the ideal first practical step for a complete beginner.
Schedule
Lecture topics and dates rotate each offering — we link straight to Google's official schedule and syllabus so it's always current.
Full schedule & syllabusAccess
Free, with hands-on coding exercises that run in Kaggle Notebooks. A free Kaggle account is needed to run the exercises.
Materials & links
Source: Google — all links open on the provider's own site.
Kaggle Learn: Intro to Deep Learning
Neural networks, hands-on with Keras
Kaggle (Google) · Self-paced · Kaggle Learn
Summary
A short, practical follow-on: build and train fully-connected neural networks with Keras, understand stochastic gradient descent, and use dropout and batch normalization to improve them — all hands-on.
A gentle, code-first bridge from classical ML into neural networks. Perfectly sized for a first taste of deep learning after Intro to ML.
Schedule
Lecture topics and dates rotate each offering — we link straight to Google's official schedule and syllabus so it's always current.
Full schedule & syllabusAccess
Free, with hands-on coding exercises that run in Kaggle Notebooks. A free Kaggle account is needed to run the exercises.
Materials & links
Source: Google — all links open on the provider's own site.