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lecture · YouTube · beginner · Free · Bookmark — best math intuition. Free, 6-part series, watch before any other ML.
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lecture · YouTube · beginner · Free · Bookmark — best math intuition. Free, 6-part series, watch before any other ML.
podcast · Multiple · beginner · Free · Bookmark — Indian AI ecosystem podcast. Founder interviews, policy, India context.
tutorial · aman.ai · advanced · Free · Bangalore-based engineer's explainers for hundreds of AI papers. Free, deep, fast.
course · DeepLearning.AI · beginner · ₹2,800 · Bookmark — paid but worth it for the structured progression. Use Coursera India pricing.
tutorial · Anthropic · intermediate · Free · The Claude equivalent of OpenAI's Cookbook. Working examples for tool use, prompt caching, vision, citations.
course · Anthropic · beginner · Free · The official guide to getting useful work out of Claude. Eight short lessons. Free. Bookmark before paying for anything else.
course · Anthropic Skills · beginner · Free · Bookmark — official, current, free. Best for anyone shipping with the API.
book · O'Reilly Media · intermediate · ₹2,800 · The book on shipping AI in production. Evals, deployment, observability. Buy it.
course · DeepLearning.AI + Andrew Ng · beginner · Free · One-hour courses on every framework that matters — LangChain, AutoGen, function calling, evals. Free. The best entry-point per topic.
video · YouTube · beginner · Free · The clearest visual explanation of embeddings on the internet. Watch once before reading anything else about vector search.
tutorial · eugeneyan.com · intermediate · Free · A working engineer's reference for the production patterns nobody else writes down. RAG, evals, guardrails. Read it twice.
course · fast.ai · beginner · Free · Bookmark — practical, code-first. Skip the academic ML courses if you want to ship.
tutorial · YouTube · beginner · Free · Bookmark — best entry for builders. Free, ~4 hours, code-along.
book · O'Reilly · intermediate · ₹3,200 · Bookmark — best 2026 print reference. Get the print copy.
course · Hugging Face · intermediate · Free · Free, deep, opinionated. If you want to actually understand transformers instead of just call APIs, start here.
course · IIIT-H · advanced · Free · India-led research lab. Free recorded lectures on speech and language tech with Indic-language focus. Strong for Indic NLP specifically.
course · IIT Madras (NPTEL) · intermediate · Free · Bookmark — only India-focused option at this depth. Free certification.
newsletter · Substack · beginner · Free · Weekly roundup of Indic-language model work from Indian labs. The only newsletter explicitly tracking this.
lecture · YouTube · advanced · Free · Build a transformer from scratch on video. Long but the best taught material in the field. Stop after lecture 7 if your time is limited.
course · LangChain · intermediate · Free · Useful if you want LangChain in production. Skip if your stack is already simpler.
newsletter · latent.space · intermediate · Free · The podcast and newsletter that actually understands the engineering side of AI. Quarterly Spaces with researchers.
podcast · swyx + Alessio · intermediate · Free · Bookmark — best industry-pulse podcast. Listen weekly.
tutorial · lilianweng.github.io · advanced · Free · OpenAI's research-blog-as-textbook. Deep, but readable. The agent and reasoning posts are the best free literature reviews available.
course · Cohere · intermediate · Free · Bookmark — best for understanding embeddings, retrieval, fine-tuning.
tutorial · OpenAI · intermediate · Free · Working code examples for every common GPT pattern — RAG, function calling, agents, JSON mode. Worth the read whether you use OpenAI or not.
tutorial · LlamaIndex · intermediate · Free · The maintainer's own tutorial. Skips the marketing. Useful if LlamaIndex is your retrieval stack.
newsletter · sarvam.ai · intermediate · Free · Engineering writeups from the Bangalore-based Indic-language lab. Sparse but high signal.
book · Manning Publications · advanced · ₹3,200 · A 400-page slow build of a small LLM in PyTorch, line by line. Pair with Karpathy's videos.
newsletter · simonwillison.net · intermediate · Free · Daily-ish notes from a working engineer who is genuinely fluent. The fastest way to keep up without drowning in Twitter.
book · Stanford CS · advanced · Free · The Jurafsky-Martin textbook, free online. Predates the LLM era but the foundations chapters are still the cleanest explanations of tokenization, embedding, and