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Training and tools for open AI.
A selection of free, up-to-date resources for anyone who installs, uses or studies open and local AI: courses, tools, sources to follow and events.
Updated September 2026
Updated September 2026
Where to learn open and local AI.
Free courses, from basics to advanced. Course, who runs it, level, language.
| Course | Who | Level | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elements of AI | University of Helsinki | beginner | Italian, French, Spanish and others |
| Repubblica Digitale | Department for Digital Transformation | beginner | Italian |
| LLM Course | Hugging Face | beginner–intermediate | English |
| Agents Course | Hugging Face | intermediate | English |
| smol course | Hugging Face | intermediate | English |
| Efficient inference with vLLM | DeepLearning.AI and vLLM (June 2026) | intermediate | English |
| Quantization Fundamentals | DeepLearning.AI and Hugging Face | beginner | English |
| CS336 Language Modeling from Scratch | Stanford, spring 2026 | advanced | English |
| AI literacy repository | European Commission | all | English |
| WHO guide on multimodal models in healthcare | WHO | policy | English |
The software around the model.
Open tools to serve, query, archive, evaluate and measure the energy of models.
Interfaces
Document archives
Evaluating models
Newsletters and communities.
Sources we read to keep this observatory current.
Where the field meets.
Conferences on AI, data centers and energy through 2027.
| Event | When and where |
|---|---|
| NeurIPS 2026 | Sydney, 6–12 December 2026; satellite venues in Paris and Atlanta 9–13 December |
| Data Centre World London | 10–11 March 2027 |
| ICLR 2027 | 26–30 April 2027, San Francisco |
| ees Europe / The smarter E | 8–10 June 2027, Munich |
| AI for Good Global Summit | 21–25 June 2027, Geneva |