Anthropic has released a series of free AI courses focused on building with Claude in 2026. According to a post by Alex Prompter on X, the courses cover practical skills including making real API calls, shipping tool-using agents, and building and deploying full RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines. The post claims these free offerings rival or surpass many paid "AI degrees" in terms of relevance and hands-on utility.

While the full course list is truncated in the post, the emphasis is on applied, production-oriented skills rather than theoretical knowledge. The courses appear to target developers and AI practitioners who want to work directly with Claude's capabilities, making them a notable free resource in the rapidly evolving AI education landscape.