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Hugging Face

Hugging Face is the home of open-source AI, hosting the world's largest collection of pre-trained models, datasets, and Spaces. Their free courses cover NLP with Transformers, reinforcement learning, AI agents, and building ML demos with Gradio. All courses are completely free with no paywall.

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Hugging Face LLM Course

Learn to build and deploy with transformers and large language models in this 12-chapter course from Hugging Face. You'll start with NLP fundamentals, then move into modern LLM techniques: tokenization, fine-tuning, reasoning models, and building shareable demos. By the end, you'll know how to use pre-trained models, customize them on your own data, and integrate them into real applications. Best if you have some Python experience; the course assumes basic familiarity with machine learning. Fair warning: LLM chapters move fast, so budget time for rereading.

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Hugging Face MCP Course

Hugging Face's free course on the Model Context Protocol, built in partnership with Anthropic. Four units take you from MCP fundamentals to building and deploying real MCP servers and clients. Roughly 3–4 hours per unit, with a certificate of fundamentals after Unit 1 and a completion certificate after Units 2–3.

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