Learn essential AI skills

It depends on your current AI knowledge and your learning goals. New to AI? Start with introductory resources like Google AI Essentials or explore more courses on Google Skills. These will give you a solid foundation in AI concepts.

Ready to dive deeper? Consider more specialized courses or certifications based on your specific interests or career goals. Google Skills offers AI courses and hands-on labs where you can earn Skill Badges—digital credentials to validate your abilities with Google Cloud products.

Certificates generally refer to a program focused on building practical skills in a specific area. Certificates often require less time and financial commitment than certifications. Examples include Google Career Certificates or Google Cloud Certificates, which focus on job-ready skills.

Certifications, including Google Cloud Certifications typically involve a more rigorous process to validate technical expertise in a particular technology or domain. Certifications often require passing an exam and may demonstrate proficiency in specific tools or platforms.

Google offers a variety of resources to help you learn about and develop AI skills. Explore the full catalog on Google Skills, including AI-related courses and hands-on learning experiences with Google products. You can earn Skill Badges to demonstrate your proficiency in specific AI technologies or follow learning paths to learn how to approach AI use cases.

Grow with Google provides practical training, tools, and resources to help you apply AI to your job, business, or classroom. The program features foundational courses like AI Essentials and Prompting Essentials, as well as integrated, field-specific AI training within its Google Career Certificates. To further support career development, the program offers interactive AI-powered tools like Career Dreamer to help you explore new job paths and Interview Warmup to assist with interview preparation.

Google offers many learning resources to learn AI skills—some paid and some available at no charge to learners. The complementary resources on this page are marked with a “no charge” tag. You can also access a library of helpful learning content on YouTube, or find free courses for small business owners, students and educators on grow.google/ai.

Join the Google Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) community to build AI skills with 35 learning credits to use on courses and hands-on labs in Google Skills—at no cost to you. These credits renew every month. You can also access our full catalog of learning content with a monthly subscription of $29 per month. For higher education, government, nonprofit and workforce development programs, Google Cloud offers a no-charge option that’s cohort-based and faculty-facilitated. You can learn more at g.co/edu/cloudready.