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7 days, 7 AI certificates, absolutely free

Seven days, seven genuinely free certificates. One a day, and by Sunday you've got a row of real, LinkedIn ready credentials. I verified every one: free to take AND free to certify, no audit only traps. 🌱

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The 7 day plan

Day 1: Kaggle, Intro to Machine Learning 🧠

🔗 https://www.kaggle.com/learn/intro-to-machine-learning
✅ Free certificate, issued automatically. Free Google or Kaggle account needed.
⏱️ About 3 to 4 hours.
📚 Build your first models in the browser (guided code, no prior Python needed). The easiest day, so start here for momentum.

Day 2: Microsoft + LinkedIn, Career Essentials in Generative AI 💼

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/learning/paths/career-essentials-in-generative-ai-by-microsoft-and-linkedin
✅ Free professional certificate. Open it through this exact path link so you don't hit the paywall.
⏱️ About 4.5 hours.
📚 Generative AI concepts, the main models, ethics, and Microsoft Copilot. Posts straight to your LinkedIn.

Day 3: Anthropic, AI Fluency: Framework and Foundations 🥇

🔗 https://anthropic.skilljar.com/ai-fluency-framework-foundations
✅ Free, certificate included ("Register FREE"). No card.
⏱️ About 2 to 4 hours.
📚 The 4D framework for actually working with AI. The one that makes you better at all the others.

Day 4: IBM SkillsBuild, AI Fundamentals 🤖

🔗 https://skillsbuild.org/adult-learners/explore-learning/artificial-intelligence
✅ Free verified IBM badge via Credly.
⏱️ About 10 to 20 hours (the big one, maybe split it over Day 4 and the weekend).
📚 NLP, computer vision, machine learning, neural networks, chatbots, AI ethics.

Day 5: University of Helsinki, Elements of AI 🎓

🔗 https://www.elementsofai.com/
✅ Free digital certificate, sharable to LinkedIn.
⏱️ Self paced.
📚 A calm, no maths intro to what AI actually is. University backed.

Day 6: Kaggle, Intro to Deep Learning 🔬

🔗 https://www.kaggle.com/learn/intro-to-deep-learning
✅ Free certificate, issued automatically.
⏱️ About 4 hours (do Day 1 first, it builds on it).
📚 Neural networks in practice: how deep learning models actually learn. Your second Kaggle badge.

Day 7: Google + Kaggle, 5-Day Gen AI Intensive 🚀

🔗 https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/5-day-ai-agents-intensive-vibecoding-course-with-google
✅ Free, with a certificate or badge via the optional capstone.
⏱️ Runs in scheduled cohorts (the labs and whitepapers stay viewable between cohorts).
📚 Foundational models, embeddings, AI agents, agent evaluation and MLOps. The most advanced day, a strong finish.

📌 Because Day 7 runs in cohorts, check the page for the next live round. If it's between cohorts, the materials are still there to work through, just do the capstone when the next round opens to lock the certificate.

the honest bit

One honest note 🙏

No Google AI Essentials here, it's free to audit only (paid certificate). Kaggle and IBM issue completion badges you can add to LinkedIn, not accredited degrees, so display them as certificates of completion. Everything above is genuinely free to certify.

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