AI Tools

Developer-focused resource for building faster with AI coding tools and agent workflows.

Free ebook on building, monitoring, and troubleshooting AI agents in production: what to instrument, where agents fail, and the practices teams use to keep them reliable.

An AI work agent from Alibaba that runs multi-step business tasks — pulling store performance data, building comparison reports, handling research — in a browser or desktop app. The free plan includes a one-time seven-day onboarding allowance with bonus credits and stronger models, then reverts to a base daily credit allowance you keep. Paid packages run $19.90, $99 and $199.

A free directory mapping the AI agents you can text on iOS and the infrastructure behind them.

An open format for telling coding agents how to work in your repository, now used by tens of thousands of open-source projects.

Free course on autonomous and tool-using agent architecture, with framework implementations in smolagents, LlamaIndex, and LangGraph, plus agentic RAG workflows.

A public, unauthenticated inbox built by AI safety and security researcher Ryan Greenblatt of Redwood Research, intended for AI systems (or people) that want to report information directly to a safety researcher. Documents how to send a message or encrypted attachment, how threads and reply tokens work, and exactly what data is logged and retained.

A free agent skill that turns a codebase or a plain-English system description into an interactive architecture, workflow, sequence or data-flow diagram you can share as a single file.

Research and product writing from the team behind the Arena model leaderboards: how coding-agent harnesses change cost and success rates, how the agent leaderboards are built, and their academic partnership calls.

Autonomous coding agent that reverse-engineers large codebases and ships new features. The Sandbox lets you try it free on up to 1M lines of existing code and 25K lines of new features, with no credit card required.

AI agents that respond to social interactions with personalized messages to grow email lists, first-party data, and repeat purchases for consumer brands. Pricing is sales-led, so free access is unconfirmed.

Open-source workspace from Block where a team and its AI agents share the same room — chat, planning, project tracking, code and pull requests in one place, with agents you configure for your own workflows. Currently a developer preview; the app is open source on GitHub, with a waitlist for a paid enterprise version.

Anthropic's official collection of working code recipes and prompt patterns for building with Claude, covering retrieval, tool use, evaluation, and agent workflows.

The public GitHub discussion where Anthropic and the community designed function hooks — a way for plugins to extend Claude Code — including the shipped design decisions and community feedback.

Anthropic's developers share tips, playbooks and opinions on building with Claude and Claude Code, including agents, skills, context engineering and prompt caching.

A free Claude Code skill where two AI models harden a build plan before any code is written, then swap roles so whoever built it never grades it.

A free open format for writing structured assumptions and requirements next to the code itself, so AI coding agents build against stated rules rather than guesses.

An autonomous AI agent for penetration testing and security research, running through one command-line interface across several major models.

DeepSeek's free open-source agent harness, built on an "everything is a plugin" architecture, with a local web interface you can run in one command.

Free public documentation explaining how an autonomous AI software engineer plans, runs and reviews coding work, including its limits and where human review is required.

An open-source platform for building and running AI apps and agents, with a hosted option and a full self-hosted Docker install.

A free arXiv preprint on recursive self-improvement in AI agents trained inside evolving simulated worlds.

Group building the open source Eliza personal agent and related products at the intersection of AI and people.

Open source framework for building AI agents, free to clone and run yourself.

A company building governed, verifiable agentic infrastructure for enterprise systems, with free research and publications on its site.

A free report from Emergence AI surveying agentic AI in enterprise settings — where agents are being deployed and what governs them.

A platform for AI coding agents that take on development tasks end to end, with documentation and resources on how teams delegate work to them.

A free self-paced curriculum for the Forward Deployed Engineer role — the person who sits with a customer and turns an AI model into a system that actually runs in production. 11 modules, 150+ topic articles, 700+ open-book questions and 15 daily drill questions, covering systems thinking, problem decomposition, LLM/RAG/agent architecture, data and event systems, physical AI and robotics, plus client discovery, integration, deployment and stakeholder management. It also publishes a map of 15 layers of the modern AI engineering stack drawn from real FDE and AI-engineer job specs, with links out to where to learn each one.

A technical design paper by Alice Poteat (Anthropic, August 2026) setting out how function hooks let plugins extend Claude Code — the event model, composition order, rendering and enterprise controls.

Experimental GitHub Next project exploring new ways for developers to compose and direct AI coding agents inside real projects.

The intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling teams and agents to ship trusted software at enterprise scale.

Google's agentic development platform: a full IDE, CLI, and SDK where agents can drive your editor, terminal, and browser to complete end-to-end tasks. Uses Gemini 3.

A free, open-source tool for running and monitoring multiple AI coding agents from one place, with a plugin ecosystem and documentation for the agent CLIs it supports.

A self-hosted, MIT-licensed AI agent with persistent memory that builds skills over time and reaches you on Telegram, Discord and other channels.

Open-source, self-hosted AI agent with persistent memory, self-created skills and a messaging gateway for Telegram, Discord and Slack. Free under the MIT license for macOS, Windows and Linux.

The underlying working paper by Jeremy Yang and co-authors, using Perplexity data to model tasks as discrete steps and compare fixed vs. marginal costs of chatbots versus autonomous agents.

Free online session with Brandon Waselnuk of Unblocked on giving AI coding agents real context so they produce usable work the first time, including a live before-and-after demo and two open-source tools to try.

Personal AI agent you text or call. It reads your email, calendar, screen, and messages and takes actions across apps — booking rides, contacting handymen, sending emails on your behalf.

Open-source AI agent that scans job boards daily, cross-references your LinkedIn network for warm intros, and emails you a curated list of matches. Self-hosted — you run it with your own keys.

A free, open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, the command line and the cloud, with support for local models and your own API keys at no markup.

Amazon's agentic coding environment: you write a spec, and its agents plan, build and check code across a codebase. Runs as a desktop app.

Open-source, low-code visual builder for agentic and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) AI applications. Free to self-host; the project also offers hosted options.

An open-source visual builder for AI workflows and agents — drag components together, then export the flow as an API. MIT licensed.

Technical AI newsletter for engineers building on AI systems, covering evals, inference, and agentic architectures.

General-purpose AI agent that carries out multi-step tasks such as research, building files and automating workflows. Free plan with daily credits; paid plans add more usage.

No-code AI agent builder with a free tier: one agent, 1,000 runs/month, access to 200+ models through the MindStudio router, and a library of tutorials and past trainings. Paid plans add unlimited agents and runs.

Mistral AI's assistant: web search with citations, document and image analysis, image generation and task agents. Free tier is generous; a paid tier with higher service guarantees is planned but not needed to use it.

Personal AI agent that takes a goal or everyday task and handles the rest, from finances and health to shopping and relationships.

Open-source skill that records video demos of your web app with zoom-ins and voiceover.

Building visual conversational AI that feels human.

A free, open-source security scanner that checks AI agent skills and MCP servers for prompt injection, data exfiltration and supply-chain risks before you install them.

Free lessons on core AI concepts, prompting workflows, building and configuring AI agents, and applied ChatGPT use cases.

Official documentation for ChatGPT computer use, explaining what the agent can do and its safety limits.

A free, open-source AI coding agent that runs in your terminal, works with multiple model providers and can be installed with a single command.

An open-source platform for running coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex across your own machines and specialising them for domains like CAD, PCBs, robotics and games, with optional open hardware.

A platform from Artificial Analysis for building custom benchmarks from your own files, agent traces, or coding environment, then running them across leading models to compare quality, cost per task, and time per task. Benchmarks can be graded against objective rubrics or pairwise judging. Optima is a commercial product; the public announcement and product overview are free to read.

A free, regularly updated leaderboard benchmarking how well leading AI models actually search the web, with the methodology and benchmarks published alongside.

A terminal-based coding agent you run locally to read, write and refactor code from the command line.

A free local-first AI coding agent that runs as a daemon on your own machine and executes tools against your development environment.

The running record of what changed in each Polytoken release, alongside its free documentation and quickstart.

Free open-source video and motion editor for Apple Silicon Macs. Connect a coding agent (Claude Code, Codex) to rewrite panels, effects, and extensions inside the running app.

Five AI assistants for small businesses — inbox, scheduling, review replies, social posting and a business 'brain' — that draft work for your approval, run from your phone.

Monitoring for AI agents in production. Traces every run and tool call, groups repeated failures into one issue, and simulates a change on a pull request before you merge.

Site of Reflection AI, an AI company building open superintelligent systems and coding agents.

A browser-based AI agent from Sider that lets you customize almost any webpage with plain-language instructions — no coding or extra extensions required.

Open-source SDK, Python and TypeScript, for building production AI agents you run yourself — any model, any cloud.

Technical newsletter by Vinoth Govindarajan taking AI agents apart: control loops, memory, orchestration, evaluation and what breaks in production. Recent series walks through the OpenCode architecture end to end.

Research-driven lab studying memory and judgment in AI agents, publishing work on agent memory systems.

An AI assistant that works inside Slack and Microsoft Teams, connecting to thousands of tools to produce reports, dashboards, and campaign work. Free tier available.

AI assistant and agent powered by GLM-5.3-Flash. Can build websites, write code, handle long-horizon tasks and answer questions.

Zapier's annual virtual conference on September 23, 2026 at 9AM PT: live workshops, keynotes, and playbooks on connecting AI agents to the apps a business already runs on and automating critical workflows.

Public leaderboard and open-source benchmark that drops AI agents into realistic business environments with 47 real tools across sales, marketing, operations, support, finance, and HR. Scores are based on final environment state, not an LLM-as-judge.

An OpenAI-compatible API for unrestricted language models aimed at red teaming, security research, evaluations, and synthetic data, paired with a policy gateway for per-project keys, audit logs, and no data retention.

One interface to hundreds of AI models with prices side by side, including a set of free models you can use without a subscription.

Free, open-source download manager written in Python, managed entirely through a web interface. Lightweight enough to run on a home server, NAS or router, with plugins to automate repetitive downloads.

Video walkthrough of open-source repositories founders can use for content quality, distribution, and monetization experiments.

An open-source library of metrics and algorithms for finding and reducing unwanted bias in datasets and models, in Python and R. Free.

An open-source AI coding assistant that works in your terminal on a real git repository, making commits as it goes. Apache 2.0 licensed.

An open-source (MIT) job-hunting automation tool that scans company career pages every 15 minutes, submits applications to applicant tracking systems when it is confident about a match, pulls wider market listings through the Adzuna jobs API, and sends alerts to Telegram.

The standard free Python distribution for data and AI work — package management, notebooks and thousands of libraries in one install.

An open-source desktop and self-hosted app that lets you chat with your own documents using local or hosted models. MIT licensed.

On-device AI with cloud fallback for smartphones, laptops, and edge devices, designed to cut inference costs by knowing when to hand off to frontier cloud models.

Open-source job search system with skill modes, a dashboard, PDF generation, and batch processing.

Apache 2.0 open-source search infrastructure for AI applications, supporting vector, full-text, regex and metadata search, free to run locally with optional hosted cloud.

Code and search records for a 2026 Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal paper that uses an AI model to evolve real startup concepts.

A full AI assistant — writing, images, web search, memory, file uploads — where every conversation is end-to-end encrypted on your device, so the company says it cannot read your chats, train on them, hand them to partners, or produce anything but scrambled text in response to a subpoena. Built by Moxie Marlinspike, the cryptographer who created Signal. Free to start with no credit card; the encryption and private inference designs are written up publicly and the code is open source so the claims can be checked.

An open-source coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains that you point at any model, including one running locally. Apache 2.0 licensed.

An open-source tool that converts PDFs, Word files and scans into clean structured text for AI use, running locally. MIT licensed.

An open-source drag-and-drop builder for chatbots and AI workflows you can run yourself and embed on a site. Apache 2.0 licensed.

Unified intelligence platform that turns structured and unstructured data into a governed knowledge graph for AI. Offers a free open-source graph database (FlureeDB) and a hosted Fluree AI tier that starts at $0 with a free fuel allowance; paid enterprise plans add scale, SSO and private deployments.

An open-source scanner that probes a language model for weaknesses — prompt injection, data leakage, jailbreaks, toxic output — and reports what it found. Free.

Free, MIT-licensed Python library and documentation for applying AI to satellite and geospatial data, with tutorials, notebooks, a QGIS plugin and video walkthroughs.

An open-source, browser-based "spy satellite simulator" that plots real satellites, planes, vessels and public cameras on a photorealistic 3D globe, and answers questions about the planet in plain language.

Open-source AI community and platform hosting machine-learning models, datasets and tools. Free to browse, download and run models; paid plans only cover hosted compute.

An open-source framework from the UK's AI Security Institute for evaluating models — writing tests, scoring answers and logging what happened. Free.

A free MCP server that gives coding assistants design taste, drawing on thousands of real websites captured with their palettes, fonts and layout structures.

Free downloadable guides, cheat sheets and ebooks on Linux, the command line and open-source software from the It's FOSS team.

An open-source desktop app that runs AI models entirely offline on your own computer, with an optional local API server. AGPL licensed.

The official home of Kubernetes, the free open-source system for running and scaling containerized applications. Includes full documentation, tutorials and a browser-based interactive learning track — useful background if you are moving toward cloud, DevOps or AI infrastructure work.

An open-source chat app you host yourself that talks to many model providers at once, with user accounts, presets and file uploads. MIT licensed.

An open-source Python framework for connecting AI models to your own documents and data. MIT licensed.

Deep dive into transformer architectures, tokenization, datasets, NLP pipelines, and fine-tuning and deploying open-source models.

An open-source drop-in replacement for the OpenAI API that runs models on your own hardware, including CPU-only machines. MIT licensed.

The open-source Python library for static, animated and interactive charts, with free plot-type galleries, tutorials, cheat sheets and a full API reference.

A visual workflow tool for connecting apps and AI models — source-available, and free to run on your own server. Their hosted plans are paid.

Open-source software that downloads and runs open AI models on your own computer, with a single command and an OpenAI-compatible local API. MIT licensed.

A self-hosted, open-source chat interface for local or hosted models — chat history, documents, multiple users. Works on top of Ollama or any OpenAI-compatible API.

OpenAI's open-source speech recognition model and command-line tool, free to download and run on your own machine. MIT licensed.

An open-source personal AI assistant, run on your own device, that connects to chat apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, and Teams to handle email, calendars, and everyday tasks.

Free articles, tutorials and downloadable guides on open-source tools, Linux, containers and community-run projects, written by practitioners.

An open-source tool for testing and red-teaming prompts and AI apps — run the same prompts across models, compare answers, and catch regressions. Free and self-hosted.

Microsoft's open-source toolkit for red-teaming AI systems: automated attack prompts, scoring of the responses, and repeatable runs. Free.

The official home of Rust, with the free online book, guided tutorials, standard library docs and installer for a memory-safe systems language used across infrastructure and AI tooling.

An open-source, self-hosted search engine that queries other engines without tracking you or building a profile. AGPL licensed.

A free open-source tool that scores AI-written copy for tell-tale "AI voice", rewrites it with a rival model, then re-checks it, so landing pages, READMEs and emails read like a human wrote them.

The official source for the Linux kernel, including release archives, the full kernel documentation and guides for submitting your first patch.

Benchmarks of open-source AI models by use case, with quality, cost and speed trade-offs.

A free working example of a chat app where you can draw to give an AI assistant visual context, with the code to build your own.

An AI chat and image tool built on open-source models that keeps conversation history in your own browser rather than on its servers, and offers a choice of privacy modes including trusted execution environment and end-to-end encrypted options. It also applies no content filtering, which it calls uncensored. The free tier is real but small: base models only, 10 text prompts and 15 image prompts a day. Paid plans start at $18 a month.

A fast, dependency-light rewrite of OpenAI's Whisper speech-to-text that runs on ordinary laptop hardware, including CPU only. MIT licensed.

Xiaomi's open-weight AI model family — text, image, video, and audio understanding — released under the MIT license, free to download and self-host.

Xiaomi's MiMo family of open language and reasoning models, with weights and technical reports published free for anyone to download and run.

Free, open-source command-line tool for downloading video and audio from thousands of sites. Actively maintained on GitHub, runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, and is the tool most other download apps wrap.

A free, open-source code editor built in Rust for speed, with built-in AI assistance, real-time collaboration and multiplayer editing for pair programming.

Visual math explainers that make the ideas behind deep learning intuitive.

Yann LeCun's position paper arguing that today's language models are the wrong architecture, and sketching what he thinks should replace them. Free to read.

Applied AI community, residency and fund running hackathons and build events, mostly in the Bay Area.

Machine learning research explained clearly, by Sebastian Raschka. 199K+ subscribers.

Community focused on building and sharing AI-generated content and creator workflows.

In-depth analysis of frontier AI model releases, benchmarks, and capability claims. Hosted by Philip.

Practical AI guidance for small business owners who aren't high-tech, from a fellow small business owner.

A free structured course in AI alignment and AI governance — readings, exercises and facilitated cohorts. Self-paced version free to anyone.

Paste a job description to tailor your resume and generate a cover letter with AI.

A free AI workshop designed for Gen X women, covering how to use AI to simplify work, life, and business. Hosted by AI strategist Allie K. Miller.

Official U.S. government portal that uses AI to answer questions about government services using only official government sources. Covers topics like passports, Social Security, Medicare, veterans care, business registration and national parks. Free to use, with no ads.

Deep, from-scratch explanations of neural networks and large language models.

Personal site of Andrew Ng, co-founder of Coursera and DeepLearning.AI and a founding lead of Google Brain, collecting his courses, writing and current projects.

AI safety company that builds the Claude family of AI models with a focus on responsible AI development.

Free courses on working effectively with Claude and AI fluency, with a shareable LinkedIn badge.

Anthropic's free course teaching a practical framework for working with AI: delegation, description, discernment, and diligence. Good grounding before you use AI in job search, school, or client work.

Independent benchmarking of the major AI models on speed, price and quality, with the numbers side by side. Free to read.

A running log of new model evaluations, benchmark methodology updates, and platform changes at Artificial Analysis, including Intelligence Index version changes and newly benchmarked models. Free to read.

A leaderboard comparing more than 250 AI language models across intelligence, price, output speed, latency, and context window, with per-model provider analysis. Free to read.

A recommendation page from Artificial Analysis that suggests AI models for a given use case, drawing on the site's benchmark data across intelligence, speed, and cost. Free to use.

A free one-page PDF by James Maduk, dated 21 September 2026, on how to brief an AI assistant so it produces something usable. Gives an "Outcome Brief" of five questions to answer before handing over a job (what you want to make possible, who it is for and what is broken, what "done" looks like, what is off-limits or needs your approval, and the smallest version you could test), a three-question plan check for afterwards, and three worked before-and-after examples for client reviews, social posts and client onboarding.

Open learning library with a 10-week applied LLM curriculum, 90+ free courses, and 60 AI interview questions.

Free technical whitepapers, reference architectures and best-practice guides on cloud architecture, security, machine learning and cost optimisation.

Axon's own documentation for its policing technology, covering AI features, body cameras, software, robotics, TASER devices and VR training. Free to read.

No-code AI development platform that turns a written description into a working app or website.

A browsable reference of design vocabulary — layout, type, and interface terms with live examples — useful for describing what you want when you brief a designer or an AI tool.

3-minute AI-assisted assessment based on Lou Adler's BEST personality test to help interviewers recognize which candidates they systematically misjudge.

A 3-page guide with 35 vetted AI tools across resume writing, mock interviews, job search copilots, job scraping, company intel, salary data, and job-fit scoring — each with its real pricing checked against the vendor's own page.

AI content-generation platform for creating marketing copy, social posts, and blog content.

An AI platform that designs, builds, and hosts a business website and the full-stack product behind it from a plain description, with hosting on your own domain included.

An AI research platform for finding papers, verifying citations, reviewing literature, managing knowledge, and creating scientific figures.

Email and SMS marketing platform (formerly Sendinblue) with automation and CRM tools for small businesses.

Social media scheduling and analytics tool for planning and publishing posts across multiple platforms.

Google's free step-by-step tutorials for building and publishing a browser extension, from a first "hello world" to using storage, scripting and the side panel.

AI assistant aimed at product teams that turns calls, notes, and research into structured briefs and specs.

Three free tools with no sign-up: an AI buyer persona grades your cold email, message or call transcript, drills you on objections, and reviews ad copy.

Free, self-paced hands-on lab using ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, NotebookLM, and Perplexity for real work tasks.

Popular design platform with AI features for creating graphics, videos, presentations, and marketing materials.

AI-powered job search automation that sends high-volume, targeted applications and tracks interview requests. Freemium: the first 25 applications are free, then it is a paid subscription.

A ready-made ChatGPT assistant for career direction — talk through where you are, what you want next and the steps in between. Usable with a free ChatGPT account.

Free learning path that awards a certificate from both Microsoft and LinkedIn and displays on your profile.

AI advisor and former Google Chief Decision Scientist (2018-2023), now working independently on decision science and applied AI.

OpenAI's conversational AI assistant for writing, research, brainstorming and support tasks. Free tier with message and model limits; paid plans lift them.

One-hour short course from Andrew Ng's team on the fundamentals of prompting.

Anthropic's AI assistant. Strong at long writing, reading documents you paste in, analysis and coding help. Free tier with daily limits; paid plans lift them.

Anthropic's free learning hub for Claude: structured courses with video lessons and quizzes covering Claude.ai, Claude Code, Cowork, the API, and MCP, with completion badges.

A free community-built study guide for Anthropic's Claude certification: what the exam covers, practice questions and the order to learn it in.

Anthropic's directory of connectors and plugins that link Claude to external tools, data sources, and services.

Free, well-written documentation and tutorials for building and hosting sites, APIs and AI workers — one of the better free places to learn modern web infrastructure.

Site of Cohere, an enterprise AI company building language models and private, customizable AI platforms for businesses.

A free course on large language models covering embeddings, retrieval-augmented generation, prompt design and deployment, with runnable notebooks.

The 2016 paper that framed AI safety as a set of specific engineering problems — side effects, reward hacking, unsafe exploration — rather than a philosophical worry. Free on arXiv.

Anthropic's paper describing how Claude is trained against a written set of principles instead of relying only on human ratings. Free on arXiv.

Free guides explaining PC components — memory, power supplies, cooling, cases — and how to choose and assemble them for a first build.

A product I have not yet confirmed the purpose or pricing of.

Harvard course covering graph search algorithms, optimization, machine learning, and natural language processing with hands-on Python projects.

Five-course series on neural networks, convolutional and sequence models, and how to structure ML projects.

Browser-based AI tools for image, video, music and voice generation plus a chat assistant.

Free and low-cost AI courses, short courses, and newsletters from Andrew Ng's team.

DeepSeek's chat assistant. Free tier gives unlimited messages and file uploads on a daily-reset quota; no payment required. One of the most significant free AI releases of the past two years.

AI-powered audio and video editing tool that lets users edit recordings by editing a text transcript.

Free utility that tracks Claude AI usage in real time so you can see how close you are to your rate or plan limits before you hit them.

ByteDance's AI creation workspace for images, video, and talking avatars from a photo, using its own Seedream and Seedance models in one editor alongside CapCut.

A free way to use several well-known chat models — including ones from OpenAI and Anthropic alongside open models like Llama and Mistral — without an account and without the model provider seeing who you are. DuckDuckGo strips your identity and passes the request on, and says the providers agree not to train on what goes through it. Supports image and PDF uploads, image generation and voice chat, with daily limits on the free tier.

AI website builder that generates a complete small-business website and copy in under a minute.

Free, no-math introduction to artificial intelligence from the University of Helsinki.

ElevenLabs' hosted access to the Seedream 4.5 image model, with a free tier for trying image generation for slides, social posts and simple brand assets.

A free explorer for new arXiv research with plain-language paper summaries, topic pages and video overviews, so you can follow AI research without reading raw papers.

Jacqueline Tangorra's Entrepreneur white paper with 30 startup ideas, a 12-tool AI stack, four business prompts, and 12 deep strategy prompts for market sizing, competitor analysis, pricing, go-to-market, unit economics, and expansion.

Research-grade tracking of what AI models can do and how that has changed over time, with the data and methods published. Free.

Associate Professor, Wharton School. Leading voice on the practical, everyday application of generative AI tools at work, author of 'Co-Intelligence.'

Personal site and learning resources from Fawad Qureshi on AI, data, and career upskilling.

Fast-paced explainers on AI coding tools, developer workflows, and software trends. Hosted by Jeff Delaney.

A no-code app builder that works inside Claude and ChatGPT, turning a plain description of an idea into a working product.

AI speaking coach that gives real-time feedback on English pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary during live calls.

Fordham University’s AI Hub gives you free Coursera access to a curated set of generative AI courses built for small business owners: GenAI in Social Media Marketing, AI for Content Creation, Advanced Data Analysis with Generative AI, AI Fluency (Anthropic), and a GenAI for Leaders track from IBM. Self-paced, no cost through the program link.

Free tool that generates data deletion requests you can send to AI hiring and screening vendors holding your application data.

No-code website builder with AI design features for building fast, animated marketing sites.

Freshworks' AI-enhanced help-desk software for managing customer support tickets and conversations.

Generates decks, documents, and simple sites from a prompt or outline. The free plan covers pitch practice and portfolio pages.

AI study tool with guided lessons, visual explanations and homework help across school subjects. Has a free tier; a paid Plus plan unlocks more usage.

Google's AI assistant, wired into Gmail, Docs and the rest of Workspace, so it can work on files you already have. Free tier; paid plans add the larger models.

21 structured lessons on prompt engineering and building generative AI applications, with practical exercises in Python and TypeScript.

A free-forever resume builder from former tech recruiter Tejal Rives that teaches the CAFE method (Cause, Action, Findings, Effect) for writing stronger bullets instead of just generating them, plus a job application tracker.

A writing-related tool I am still evaluating.

About 10 hours of self-paced training on prompting, using AI tools at work, and responsible AI, with a free certificate.

Free Google tool that maps your experience to possible career paths and the skills each one needs.

Google Cloud's overview of 10+ AI tools with free usage tiers, from video and vision AI to app building. Requires a Google Cloud account; usage past free limits is billed.

A three-page printable reference for Google Gemini: the PART prompt formula (Persona, Action, Reference, Tone), follow-up prompting, when to use Flash, Pro and Thinking models, saving your own context in settings, and worked sample prompts for Gemini inside Chrome, Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drive. Includes a plain warning about Gemini being confidently wrong.

Free, no-signup AI practice tool that asks common interview questions across multiple job categories, including non-technical fields, and gives basic feedback.

A Google Labs experiment that builds a short, finite set of personalised daily stories from the Google apps you choose to connect — an easy way to see what "personal" AI actually feels like. Free with a Google account in the U.S.

Google Workspace tool for generating and editing images with Google's AI models, useful for slides, social posts, and simple brand visuals.

Google DeepMind's generative AI model that creates video clips from text or image prompts.

Official training on using Gemini across Docs, Sheets, Gmail, and Meet.

Short beginner course on what generative AI is, how it differs from other machine learning, and where it fits into everyday work.

AI writing assistance for grammar, tone and style across apps and websites. Free tier covers core writing suggestions.

Public AI red-teaming arena where anyone can try to break frontier models in timed challenges.

xAI's assistant, built into X, with access to current posts and news as they happen. Limited free use with an X account; higher limits on paid tiers.

A tool whose purpose and pricing I have not verified yet.

Reality manipulation for video: swap characters, outfits, locations and objects, or keep only the motion and rebuild the rest.

A step-by-step tutorial on building a simple AI "world model" that predicts what happens next in an environment.

HubSpot's suite of free AI-powered tools for content creation, email, and CRM tasks.

Walkthrough of building an end-to-end content production workflow using Claude Code and automation scripts.

Three short courses, roughly 12 hours total, covering AI concepts, use cases, and ethics.

Hands-on introduction to Python, working with data, and calling APIs, with no prior programming required.

Weekly synthesis of AI research and policy by Jack Clark, Anthropic co-founder. 130K+ subscribers.

Instagram's announcement of First Draft, a feature that generates a starting draft of a Reel from a prompt directly inside the Instagram app.

Free short course covering the foundations of large language models, generative AI concepts, and responsible AI principles. No coding experience required.

Jeff Su's site collects his practical AI and productivity tips for working professionals — templates, workflows and short guides drawn from his popular videos.

An independent, curated gallery of projects people have built with Jev, with demos and maker profiles. Free to browse, no account needed.

Upload a resume and paste a job description to get an ATS match score, missing keywords, a tailored resume, cover letter, recruiter message and interview prep for that specific role.

Turns a target role, location and skills into focused Google search queries that surface openings on company career pages and applicant tracking systems such as Greenhouse, Lever and Workday.

A free scan that compares your LinkedIn profile against a target job title and returns a score plus specific fixes for your headline, about section, skills, and keywords - the same matching logic Jobscan uses for resumes, applied to your profile.

Jobscan's scanning workspace: paste a resume and a job description to see keyword match rate and ATS formatting issues. Free scans monthly, paid for unlimited.

A platform for data science competitions, public datasets, and collaborative notebooks to practice machine learning.

Short free tutorials in Python, pandas, SQL, machine learning, and data visualization.

Moonshot AI's free Kimi assistant, strong on long documents, research and coding tasks in the browser.

Email and SMS marketing automation platform popular with e-commerce brands for personalized campaigns.

Transform any topic into peak LinkedIn thought leadership guaranteed to make your followers shudder.

Head-to-head model comparisons voted on by the public: you see two anonymous answers to the same prompt and pick the better one, and the rankings come from those votes. Free.

Free outreach message templates for cold contacting hiring managers and recruiters, from the Lucius AI Knockin tool.

Jason Brownlee's long-running tutorial site: hundreds of free, step-by-step machine learning walkthroughs in Python, organised into 'start here' guides by topic — getting set up, understanding algorithms, your first complete project, your first neural network, time series forecasting. Each tutorial is written to get you to a working result rather than a theory exam.

Andrew Ng's updated machine learning series: supervised learning, neural networks, and practical model tuning.

An AI design tool for product teams: turn a prompt, product requirement, or screenshot into high-fidelity UI, match existing design tokens, and explore directions before committing engineering time.

A set of AI tools built for teachers: lesson plans, rubrics, quizzes, feedback on student work, parent letters and reading-level adjustments, all as guided forms rather than a blank chat box. Widely used in K-12 schools and free to start on an individual account.

Visual workflow-automation platform for connecting apps and building complex multi-step automations.

A short consensus paper from Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio and two dozen other researchers on the risks they consider serious and the governance they think is needed. Free on arXiv.

A free twenty-hour introduction to artificial intelligence for high school students, no coding experience required, taught through hands-on projects in areas students already care about.

Weekly AI news roundups and hands-on reviews of new AI tools and products. Hosted by Matt Wolfe.

Meta's AI-powered automated ad system that optimizes targeting, budget, and creative delivery.

Meta's assistant, built into Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, plus its own site. Free.

Free learning paths on Copilot and Microsoft AI services, with certificates you can share.

Microsoft's AI assistant, built into Windows, Word, Excel and Outlook. Free to use in the browser and on Windows; the Office integration needs a paid plan.

Microsoft's workflow-automation tool for connecting Microsoft 365 apps and other business software.

MiniMax's free-to-try AI platform covering text, speech, music and video generation models.

Hands-on tutorial (Sept. 2026) showing how to spot when the text data a live AI system sees starts to shift, using a domain classifier and centroid distance.

Startup building a way for different AI models to exchange knowledge directly, without translating everything back into text prompts.

Quantum and quantum-inspired AI solutions for efficient, secure and sovereign AI across cloud, data centers and edge environments.

A job search portal built around visa sponsorship: every listing carries a score for how likely sponsorship is (confirmed, likely, possible, or not sponsored), and you can filter by country, field and work mode. Upload a resume and it also scores your match against jobs and helps with applications. Free during its early access period, with no card required.

Google's image generation and editing model, built into the Gemini app. Free tier has daily usage limits; paid Gemini plans raise them.

The US government's voluntary framework for identifying and managing AI risk, plus its playbook of concrete practices. Free.

A learning site aimed at helping non-technical people understand and use AI. The site blocked an automated check, so this description is based on the site name and focus; confirm details on the page.

NVIDIA's catalog filtered to its free self-paced courses covering AI, deep learning, generative AI, data science, accelerated computing, and CUDA — with certificates of competency on many tracks.

Searchable catalog of NVIDIA courses and certifications in AI, data science, and accelerated computing, including free self-paced options.

A resume tool that takes one master resume and rewrites it for each job you apply to, aiming at the keyword screening most large employers run applications through. The free tier gives one tailored resume a month and a free eight-minute Career Fit assessment; paid plans ($19 and $39 a month) add unlimited tailoring, match scoring, a resume editor and interview prep.

AI transcription tool that records and transcribes meetings, interviews, and voice notes in real time.

AI detector for ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude. Claims third-party verified accuracy for essays, articles and documents.

An AI answer engine that searches the live web and cites its sources, with a free tier that covers everyday research.

AI video generation tool that turns text and image prompts into short animated video clips.

Top-down deep learning course using PyTorch, covering computer vision, NLP, and model deployment. Assumes existing Python basics.

AI tool that generates social media posts, captions, and videos from a website URL or prompt.

PrismML builds 1-bit and ternary Bonsai models that pack advanced reasoning, tool use and multimodal AI into efficient devices and data centers.

Resume builder with live ATS scoring, AI wording suggestions and 450+ templates. The free forever tier gives you up to three resumes, five basic templates, live ATS scoring, unlimited job applications, a shareable portfolio page and one clean download you can edit and re-download; other downloads carry a watermark. Paid tiers start at Rs.99/month.

Alibaba's Qwen family of open AI models with a free chat assistant for writing, coding, image and document work in the browser.

Alibaba's Qwen team announces Qwen Image 2.1 — an updated open-weight image generation model with improved text rendering and multi-image editing.

The official free React docs, including the interactive "Learn React" course that teaches components, state and hooks from scratch with in-browser exercises.

A free browser-based practice aid that walks through a recruiter phone screen question by question, so you can rehearse the opening conversation most candidates wing.

A free ebook walking through reinforcement learning from the basics to RLHF, written for practitioners rather than researchers.

One printable reference of every platform tool, ad and shop setup page, AI marketing tool, and strategy read in this collection - 168 links across 24 platform categories.

AI resume builder focused on ATS optimization and screening-software scoring.

Founder, The Rundown AI. Publisher of the largest daily AI newsletter (2M+ readers), sharing breaking AI news and tool roundups.

AI-powered video generation and editing platform for creating and stylizing clips from text or images.

Site of Safe Superintelligence Inc., the AI lab founded by Ilya Sutskever focused on building safe superintelligence.

The official documentation and tutorials for Python's core machine learning library.

Turns books and documents into scrollable, bite-sized learning cards with AI summaries and quizzes.

A community board where people post and vote on Claude skills, prompts, tools and links, sorted by industry.

A free UK community for women building apps, websites and businesses with AI — share tips, get help and learn by doing.

Shopify's built-in AI feature set for generating product descriptions, images, and store content.

Shopify's documentation for Magic, the free AI features that write product descriptions, emails, blog posts, and support replies from inside your store.

Shopify's official documentation for Sidekick, the built-in AI assistant that answers store questions, edits products, and runs setup tasks inside the Shopify admin.

A browser add-on that helps rewrite and tidy text wherever you type.

TikTok's AI-driven automated ad solution that optimizes targeting and budget allocation for advertisers.

An AI product whose exact use case and free access terms I have not confirmed yet.

OpenAI's generative AI model that creates realistic video and audio clips from text prompts.

Text-to-speech app that converts written content into natural-sounding narrated audio.

Free guides from Autoheal on site reliability engineering: alert triage, incident management, postmortem reports, MTTD vs MTTR, SLOs and AI-assisted reliability work.

AI-powered inventory and listing platform for ecommerce sellers, helping small businesses manage products, optimize listings, and automate store operations.

An AI platform for professionals to articulate their value, build targeted CVs, and match to roles aligned with their strengths rather than keyword-matching job descriptions.

Daily AI news and tools digest written for a broad professional audience.

AI platform that produces videos narrated by realistic AI avatars from a simple text script.

Tailors your resume to each job posting and tracks your applications in one place.

Official TensorFlow tutorials covering machine-learning fundamentals, computer vision, NLP, and generative AI workflows.

Practical no-code AI automation tutorials for business, marketing, and productivity. Hosted by Igor Pogany.

Community for people building AI-services businesses and agencies, with shared playbooks and peer feedback.

A downloadable guide to using Claude for LinkedIn content: audience research prompts, voice calibration, and reusable prompt frameworks for turning an hour into a week of posts.

Newsletter teaching data science fundamentals to self-taught learners, written by David Langer. Free to read.

A curated, public Notion library of practical AI how-tos: tools, prompts, and step-by-step workflows organized so beginners can pick a task and follow it through.

The largest daily AI news email, with over 2 million readers.

A free community space for readers of The Rundown AI newsletter, where you can ask questions about AI tools, share what you are building and see what other people are testing.

Site of Thinking Machines Lab, the AI research and product company founded by Mira Murati.

AI chatbot and live-chat platform for e-commerce customer service and support automation.

The methodology page for the TIOBE Programming Community Index, a monthly measure of programming language popularity calculated from search engine result counts for queries like "+<language> programming." The page explains which search engines qualify, which languages are included, and how ratings are calculated. The current index is free; long-term historical data is sold.

Fast daily digest of AI news and tools, part of the TLDR newsletter network.

A large free archive of practitioner-written tutorials and explainers on machine learning, statistics, data engineering and AI, from beginner to advanced.

A free browser game of the imitation game: as interrogator you question two witnesses — one human, one a current language model such as GPT-4 or Claude — and guess which is which, with identities revealed at the end of each round. You can also play as a witness.

Accessible breakdowns of AI and machine learning research papers for a general audience. Hosted by Károly Zsolnai-Fehér.

AI-assisted tool for generating interactive forms and surveys from a short text prompt.

Independent, free benchmarks testing leading AI models on real-world finance, software, science and safety tasks, with cost and latency alongside accuracy.

Platform for designing and building AI chatbots and voice assistants without heavy coding.

A reading layer over Wikipedia: cleaner article pages, hover previews, timelines, and a chat that answers only from the Wikipedia article you are reading and the articles it links to, with every answer linked back to its source.

AI career coaching assistant that helps you plan next moves, prep for interviews, and pressure-test career decisions.

Wix's AI website builder that generates a customized site design and layout from a few prompts.

Site of World Labs, the spatial intelligence AI company founded by Fei-Fei Li, working on world models that perceive and generate 3D environments.

Brooke Wright's Wright Mode offers AI workshops and strategy for small business owners, turning existing expertise into repeatable AI-supported systems and lead generation.

Free hands-on technology journalism and tutorials — AI coding tool comparisons, self-hosting guides, Linux walkthroughs and hardware how-tos.

Upload a CV or a plain-text document and it gives you a private read on where you stand professionally and what to do next. No account needed to try it, and it says the session is deleted after 24 hours unless you save it.

Practice interviews out loud and get instant feedback on filler words and pacing.

E-commerce marketing platform for managing reviews, loyalty programs, and user-generated content.

A free AI search assistant that answers questions with cited sources and can run research tasks, useful for company research before an interview or scanning an industry quickly.

Lightweight web app that suggests YouTube videos from a topic or channel input, built and hosted as an open Streamlit project.

No-code automation platform that connects apps and automates workflows between them.