ChatGPT has free official courses too. It’s called OpenAI Academy, with 14 courses right now, and you can sign in with your ChatGPT account to take them. Every course has a quiz, and scoring 80% or higher earns a badge. I’ve organized the links by the official categories.
[AI at work]
AI Foundations: AI basics and prompting, 60 to 75 minutes
https://academy.openai.com/public/courses/ai-foundations-dnq5w
Applied AI Foundations: turning prompts into reusable workflows, 75 to 90 minutes
https://academy.openai.com/public/courses/applied-ai-foundations-hgk7r
Agents and Workflows: delegating to agents and reviewing their work, 75 to 90 minutes
https://academy.openai.com/public/courses/agents-and-workflows-bieml
[Building with the API]
Scope AI Solutions: finding use cases and choosing an approach, 30 minutes
Evaluate AI Applications: evals and debugging, 70 minutes
Design and Build Agentic Systems: designing agent systems, 110 minutes
Build with Retrieval-Augmented Generation: RAG, 100 minutes
Optimize AI Application Performance: tuning quality, speed and cost, 30 minutes
[Building with Codex]
Get Started with Codex: the basics, 80 minutes
Extend Codex Workflows: team workflows, 90 minutes
Scale Codex Across Governed Teams and Systems: parallel work and governance, 100 minutes
Entry point for these 8
https://academy.openai.com/pages/courses#building-ai-title
[Leadership]
AI Leadership: AI strategy and rollout, 180 minutes
https://academy.openai.com/public/courses/ai-leadership-kaf7k
[Education]
AI for Educators: lesson planning and writing questions, 45 minutes
https://academy.openai.com/public/courses/ai-for-educators-lc8j1
AI for College Students: study planning and job hunting, 45 minutes
https://academy.openai.com/public/courses/ai-for-college-students-gxgmr
Full catalog
https://academy.openai.com/pages/courses
Finish any of the three tracks (Foundations, Codex, API) and you also get a completion certificate, though OpenAI says it isn’t a formal certification. Between the Claude set and this one, which would you rather take?
