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    microsoft/AI-For-Beginners

    12 Weeks, 24 Lessons, AI for All!

    70.6K stars
    13.7K forks
    660 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 7, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    The project lists 93 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #1 in the weekly ranking the week of Jul 26, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a 12-week, 24-lesson beginner-friendly AI curriculum with practical Jupyter notebooks, quizzes, and labs covering symbolic AI, neural networks, computer vision, NLP, and ethics.
    • Offers multi-framework (TensorFlow, PyTorch) hands-on lessons with automated multi-language support, enabling accessible and comprehensive AI learning for diverse audiences.
    • Use for educators seeking a structured, ready-to-use AI course with setup guides and community support for teaching foundational AI concepts.
    • Use for self-learners aiming to build practical skills in modern AI techniques including deep learning, GANs, transformers, and reinforcement learning.
    • Use for developers interested in exploring AI ethics and responsible AI principles alongside technical AI implementations in an integrated curriculum.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

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    • Code of conduct: present

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    From the README

    Explore the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with our 12-week, 24-lesson curriculum! It includes practical lessons, quizzes, and labs. The curriculum is beginner-friendly and covers tools like TensorFlow and PyTorch, as well as ethics in AI

    Excerpt from the microsoft/AI-For-Beginners README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Aug 10: +434Aug 11: +106Aug 18: +222Aug 19: +263Aug 20: +221Aug 27: +222Aug 28: +181Aug 29: +136

    +6,673 stars over 90 days across 16 snapshot days; best day +434 on Aug 10.

    Forks

    13.7K+1.4K

    Open issues

    7-20

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