Free & Upcoming Generative AI Courses and Bootcamps

The demand for Generative AI skills has exploded and thankfully, you don’t need a big budget to start learning. Several global and Indian-based programs are now offering short, intensive, and free (or scholarship-based) courses that help learners build hands-on experience with large language models, AI agents, and prompt engineering.

• Google & Kaggle’s 5-Day AI Agents Intensive: This flagship program has been making waves across the AI learning community. The 5-Day AI Agents Intensive, hosted by Google and Kaggle, gives participants a rapid but deep dive into AI agent architecture, tool integration, and deployment. Learners build real working agents using Google’s ecosystem and the best part is, it’s completely free. Perfect for developers, students, and tech enthusiasts who want to understand how AI agents actually think and act.

• Pathway Technology Inc. Applied Generative AI Bootcamp: Learn production-ready AI pipelines.

• Jio’s Free Foundations Course - AI Classroom: Jio has launched a free, 4‑week foundational course called “AI Classroom created in collaboration with Jio Institute and powered by the JioPC platform. The course is open to all beginners and covers how to use AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini (by Google), Adobe Express, Suno.ai and ElevenLabs.

• freeCodeCamp - Free GenAI 65-Hour Bootcamp: For independent learners, freeCodeCamp offers a 65-hour Generative AI Bootcamp on YouTube, covering everything from the basics of large language models (LLMs) to advanced fine-tuning techniques, complete with practical coding demonstrations.

• DEXA Generative AI & Prompt Engineering Bootcamp: Live cohort on prompt engineering, with scholarships available.

• AI Planet (formerly DPhi) - RAG and Agents Bootcamp: 4-week online bootcamp on RAG and agent workflows, with hands-on projects.