AI Field Guide

Three lists, two audiences

Courses for working professionals who do not code, courses for developers, and programmes for aspiring AI engineers. Every entry is official provider material, free at the point of learning, ranked by the rubric below, and link-checked monthly.

From AI Singapore

For aspiring AI Engineers

For fresh graduates and working professionals who want to become AI Engineers or be a domain expert with deep AI capabilities.

From AI Singapore

Programmes for aspiring AI engineers

For people ready to go further: AI Singapore's own programmes, from first steps to the national apprenticeship.

LADP EssentialsThe essentials entry into the LLM Application Developer Programme: start building an LLM application of your own, taught the way AI Singapore's engineers build them.
AIAP FoundationA fully guided, self-paced course for people with basic Python. It builds the applied AI fundamentals an AIAP application asks for.
AIxTechAI Singapore's newest technical programme, launched 2026; more than two thousand learners in its first three months.
AIAP, the AI Apprenticeship ProgrammeThe national six- or nine-month apprenticeship that trains AI engineers on real projects. More than ninety per cent of graduates are placed in AI roles within six months.

Zero to Hero

AIAP-FDE Field Guide (5.0)

A structured, self-paced resource for aspiring AIAP applicants: assess where your AI skills stand and build them before you apply for AIAP. The path continues after AIAP, toward the forward deployed engineer. Courses and resources here are mostly free and best in class.

Top 10

GenAI for working professionals

For people who do not code: use AI well at work, judge what it gives you, and go as deep as the job needs.

Anthropic Academy
Anthropic
Free courses with certificates, launched 2026. AI Fluency and AI Capabilities and Limitations suit non-technical professionals best.
10/10
Introduction to Generative AI
Google
A two-hour path of short modules with a free badge. The fastest credible orientation to how generative AI works.
9/10
OpenAI Academy
OpenAI
OpenAI's free academy: short, practical lessons on using AI at work.
9/10
ACA Generative AI
Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud Academy's English generative AI course: the concepts first, then applying them on the cloud. The course is free; the certification exam is paid.
9/10
Learn Prompting
Learn Prompting
A free, community-maintained prompt engineering course, from basics up.
8/10
Google Skills
Google
Google's learning hub of short AI paths, each with a free badge.
8/10
Kaggle Learn
Google Kaggle
Free hands-on micro-courses you finish in an afternoon, in the browser.
8/10
DeepLearning.AI courses
DeepLearning.AI
Short courses, new ones monthly, including Andrew Ng's AI for Everyone. Videos are free; certificates need a subscription.
7/10
AI for Everyone (Andrew Ng)
DeepLearning.AI
The original non-technical orientation by Andrew Ng: what AI can and cannot do at work. Free to audit; the certificate is paid.
6/10
Generative AI for Everyone (Andrew Ng)
DeepLearning.AI
Andrew Ng's follow-up on generative AI at work, for the same non-technical audience. Free to audit; the certificate is paid.
6/10

Reference

The official tool guides

Not courses: the vendors' own documentation hubs, unranked. This is where you look up how a tool works when a lesson sends you to it.

Top 10

GenAI for developers

For people who build: agents, models, and the engineering behind the tools the course teaches you to direct.

Generative AI for Beginners
Microsoft
Twenty-one open lessons from prompting through agents, maintained by Microsoft.
9/10
AI Agents Course
Hugging Face
Build and evaluate agents step by step. The certificate is free.
9/10
AI Agents for Beginners
Microsoft
Fifteen lessons on agent frameworks and patterns, from the team behind the GenAI course.
9/10
Hugging Face Learn
Hugging Face
Free courses on language models, agents, and going deeper with code.
8/10
Data Science for Beginners
Microsoft
Twenty lessons on working with data, from the team behind the GenAI course. Feeds the data dimensions directly.
8/10
LLM Course
Hugging Face
Twelve chapters on how large language models work and are tuned. Needs some Python.
8/10
Alibaba Cloud Academy
Alibaba Cloud
The academy behind the courses: free English training, self-paced and instructor-led, with hands-on labs.
8/10
Z.ai guides
Z.ai
Z.ai's English developer guides for the GLM models: the API, agents, and agentic coding, including a Claude-compatible endpoint.
8/10
Machine Learning Crash Course
Google
Google's classic twelve-module introduction, with exercises.
7/10
ML for Beginners
Microsoft
A twenty-six lesson curriculum covering classic machine learning.
7/10

How each entry is scored

Beginner fit: 2 no coding or ML needed, 1 light technical, 0 technical only
Free access: 2 fully free including certificate, 1 free content only, 0 paid
Currency: 2 launched or updated within 12 months, 1 within 24, 0 older
Hands-on: 2 build exercises, 1 quizzes only, 0 passive; tool-docs score reference depth
AI For Everyone relevance: 2 maps to the course dimensions for a working professional, 1 adjacent, 0 off-target

Two points per criterion, ten at most. Totals never increase down a list; where they tie, order is editorial. Relevance is scored against the list's audience. Last full link check: 2026-10-10.

Official provider material only: the four assistant vendors, the sanctioned learning providers, and the Chinese vendors that carry genuine English material at this level (Alibaba Cloud and Z.ai are in; Tencent was reviewed and left out). No influencers, no personal blogs, no unvetted third-party sites.