Top Resources for Learning AI: Courses, Podcasts, Books & More

Nicole Saunders · 2025-10-13T19:38:20.544Z

I'm putting together a list of great resources people have found for helping to build their AI skills. The list includes online courses, newsletters, podcasts, communities, individuals to follow, and even a book or two. I'd love to add any recommendations from this community: what have you found helpful as you've been learning how to use AI?

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Mary Green
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Amanda Peacock has been great at this.
Jessica Noland
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Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick for getting a download on foundational basics of gen AI (including the ethics of it all).
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Shannon Howard
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Can you see this? The guy at Marketing Ideas has been great: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MCo7ZdktOdMz-3YKOMBGYroHVRM--G1Xce0-UNg0jms/edit?slide=id.g344ce22db7b_0_347#slide=id.g344ce22db7b_0_347
Nicole Saunders
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I can't see that, Shannon. I wonder if I can request access?
Mary Green
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Me either Shannon Howard
Christine Newman
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I haven’t started it yet but my company has made this certification course free to all our employees and from what I’ve heard, it’s quite comprehensive: https://www.datacamp.com/tracks/ai-fundamentals
Amy
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🐿️ Claude https://claude.ai LLM 🦜 Google Gemini https://gemini.google.com LLM 🐾 Nano Banana https://nanobanana.io Image generation examples 🪿 Venice AI https://venice.ai LLM 🐹 Perplexity https://www.perplexity.ai Search engine Uses multiple LLMs to change how you search the web 🐝 Gamma https://gamma.app Presentations 🐦 Opus Clip https://www.opus.pro Content creation 🐬 CapCut https://www.capcut.com Content creation 🐄 Julius https://julius.ai Data analysis 🐯 You AI data companion https://you.com Search/AI companion 🐶 Beautiful AI https://www.beautiful.ai Presentations 🦚 Comet https://lnkd.in/ghcG8XJk Agentic browser to replace Google or any other browser 🦦 Notion https://www.notion.so Project management 🐦‍🔥 Veo 3 https://lnkd.in/gdBAZMYQ Image generation Makes realistic videos 🦂 Midjourney https://www.midjourney.com Image generation 🐒 Givesy https://givesy.com Fundraising 🦊 Jetbrains https://www.jetbrains.com Vibe-coding
Jeff Reekers
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outside of all the very focused R&D work we're doing at Champion with AI, two things I've found incredibly valuable on a personal level: 1/ Academic side - Andrew Ng's AI/Machine learning courses- most can be found on coursera. I loved the machine learning ones but the more directly applicable courses for day-to-day labeled ‘AI for everyone/GenAI’ are great too. 2/ Application side - Building agents and apps
Agents on Chatbase, Delphi, or any of the usual suspects - Amy listed great resources. An easy way to start is for an internal knowledge base for your team or role. I notably like Chatbase as they have templates for different personas that refine the prompts and apply constraints, and it's personally helped me leverage other genai tools better
Applicatons leveraging tools like Lovable or Replit. It's both amazing what you can create so quickly, but also insanely frustrated how difficult it is to get the details right. I started with just making branded event landing pages... Just the trial and error of it all is valuable, regardless of what you make.
Shannon Howard
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Nicole Saunders Mary Green Sorry about that! Sharing as PDF.
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Christine Newman
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Shannon Howard interesting presentation. Have you tried the suggestions here? I’ll be honest that the Grok promotion in it gives me pause.
Shannon Howard
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Christine Newman I myself have not used Grok. I have used the suggestions around thinking about your workflow and where is there room to use AI to increase efficiency?
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Mary Green
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Amanda Peacock has been great at this.
Jessica Noland
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Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick for getting a download on foundational basics of gen AI (including the ethics of it all).
👍2
👀2
❤️1
Shannon Howard
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Can you see this? The guy at Marketing Ideas has been great: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MCo7ZdktOdMz-3YKOMBGYroHVRM--G1Xce0-UNg0jms/edit?slide=id.g344ce22db7b_0_347#slide=id.g344ce22db7b_0_347
Nicole Saunders
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I can't see that, Shannon. I wonder if I can request access?
Mary Green
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Me either Shannon Howard
Christine Newman
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I haven’t started it yet but my company has made this certification course free to all our employees and from what I’ve heard, it’s quite comprehensive: https://www.datacamp.com/tracks/ai-fundamentals
Amy
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🐿️ Claude https://claude.ai LLM 🦜 Google Gemini https://gemini.google.com LLM 🐾 Nano Banana https://nanobanana.io Image generation examples 🪿 Venice AI https://venice.ai LLM 🐹 Perplexity https://www.perplexity.ai Search engine Uses multiple LLMs to change how you search the web 🐝 Gamma https://gamma.app Presentations 🐦 Opus Clip https://www.opus.pro Content creation 🐬 CapCut https://www.capcut.com Content creation 🐄 Julius https://julius.ai Data analysis 🐯 You AI data companion https://you.com Search/AI companion 🐶 Beautiful AI https://www.beautiful.ai Presentations 🦚 Comet https://lnkd.in/ghcG8XJk Agentic browser to replace Google or any other browser 🦦 Notion https://www.notion.so Project management 🐦‍🔥 Veo 3 https://lnkd.in/gdBAZMYQ Image generation Makes realistic videos 🦂 Midjourney https://www.midjourney.com Image generation 🐒 Givesy https://givesy.com Fundraising 🦊 Jetbrains https://www.jetbrains.com Vibe-coding
Jeff Reekers
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outside of all the very focused R&D work we're doing at Champion with AI, two things I've found incredibly valuable on a personal level: 1/ Academic side - Andrew Ng's AI/Machine learning courses- most can be found on coursera. I loved the machine learning ones but the more directly applicable courses for day-to-day labeled ‘AI for everyone/GenAI’ are great too. 2/ Application side - Building agents and apps
Agents on Chatbase, Delphi, or any of the usual suspects - Amy listed great resources. An easy way to start is for an internal knowledge base for your team or role. I notably like Chatbase as they have templates for different personas that refine the prompts and apply constraints, and it's personally helped me leverage other genai tools better
Applicatons leveraging tools like Lovable or Replit. It's both amazing what you can create so quickly, but also insanely frustrated how difficult it is to get the details right. I started with just making branded event landing pages... Just the trial and error of it all is valuable, regardless of what you make.
Shannon Howard
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Nicole Saunders Mary Green Sorry about that! Sharing as PDF.
💡1
Christine Newman
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Shannon Howard interesting presentation. Have you tried the suggestions here? I’ll be honest that the Grok promotion in it gives me pause.
Shannon Howard
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Christine Newman I myself have not used Grok. I have used the suggestions around thinking about your workflow and where is there room to use AI to increase efficiency?
👍1