Amazon launches "AI Ready" program to provide free AI skills training to 2 million people around the world by 2025

CTOnews.com, Nov. 20 (Xinhua)-- Amazon announced on Sunday local time the official launch of the "AI Ready" program, which promises to provide free AI skills training to 2 million people around the world by 2025.

Amazon says AI is the most transformative technology of this generation, and AI education must be made available to anyone who wants to learn if it is to unleash its full potential to solve the world's most challenging problems. To achieve this goal, Amazon will launch a series of new initiatives for adult and adolescent learners and expand its existing free AI training program to remove cost barriers for learners to acquire these skills.

The CTOnews.com is summarized as follows:

8 new AI and generative AI courses.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) generative AI Scholarship provides more than 50000 high school and college students around the world with the opportunity to learn the new generative AI curriculum on Udacity. The total value of the scholarship is more than 12 million dollars.

The new partnership with Code.org aims to help students learn generative AI.

Amazon also offers a series of free generative AI training for scarce jobs, claiming that everyone can find a course that suits them.

For business and non-technical audiences, including "introduction to generative AI", "generative AI Learning Plan for decision makers" and "introduction to Amazon CodeWhisperer"

For developers and technicians, it includes "prompting Engineering fundamentals", "low Code Machine Learning on AWS", "Building a language Model on AWS", "getting started with Amazon Transcribe" and "using Amazon Bedrock to build generative AI applications".