Research & Ed — Free AI Tools

Courses, papers, datasets, benchmarks, intelligence APIs.

• fast.ai — Code-first deep learning — the bottom-up approach
• DeepLearning.AI — Andrew Ng's courses — audit free via Coursera
• arXiv — Gold standard AI/ML preprints — open access forever
• Semantic Scholar — 200M+ papers with AI-generated TLDR summaries
• Open LLM Leaderboard — Primary open LLM evaluation leaderboard
• NewsAPI.ai — 150K+ news sources with semantic search — ideal for trend monitoring agents
• HackerNews Algolia API — Full HN search API — no auth, unlimited, great tech pulse signal
• OpenMAIC — A free AI multi-agent interactive classroom generator for creating educational scenarios.
• Papers with Code — Papers + code + benchmarks — track SOTA on any ML task
• 3Blue1Brown — Best math/ML visual explanations — neural networks, transformers, linear algebra