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April 29, 2026
Google's Five-Day AI Course Drew 1.5 Million Learners
Published: April 29, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Updated: April 29, 2026 at 12:19 AM
100-word summary
Google and Kaggle ran a five-day AI agents course in December that attracted 1.5 million learners. Over 11,000 submitted capstone projects by week's end, while course materials racked up 3.3 million notebook views. That's more participants than most universities teach in a decade, compressed into one week. The curriculum covered how to build AI agents that reason, plan, and act, with sessions from Google, Cohere, and NVIDIA. Everything is now repackaged as a free Kaggle guide anyone can work through at their own pace. The numbers suggest companies are racing to train developers on agent patterns faster than traditional training programs can move.
What happened
Google and Kaggle ran a five-day AI agents course in December that attracted 1.5 million learners. Over 11,000 submitted capstone projects by week's end, while course materials racked up 3.3 million notebook views. That's more participants than most universities teach in a decade, compressed into one week. The curriculum covered how to build AI agents that reason, plan, and act, with sessions from Google, Cohere, and NVIDIA. Everything is now repackaged as a free Kaggle guide anyone can work through at their own pace.
Why it matters
The numbers suggest companies are racing to train developers on agent patterns faster than traditional training programs can move.