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AI Learning Essentials

Learn the foundations of AI through hands-on learning and certifications, and start building today.

Become Fluent in AI

Welcome to the AI Learning Essentials hub, designed to equip individuals with the knowledge and skills needed to thrive in the dynamic world of AI.

Explore curated resources across agentic AI, physical AI and robotics, AI in science, and OpenUSD—everything you need to build, learn, and lead in the age of intelligent systems.

Agentic AI and Foundational Models
Physical AI and Robotics
AI In Science
OpenUSD

Whether you're building your own agents, following a structured learning path, or diving into real-world livestreams with NVIDIA Nemotron™ Labs, there's a self-paced way to grow your agentic AI skills—any time, anywhere.

Build It Yourself With Agentic AI

Watch this virtual learning series to become equipped with the essential insights and tools to advance your agentic AI expertise. Move beyond traditional chatbots to explore the design and deployment of autonomous, goal-driven agents known as “claws.”

Topics Include:

Build an Academic Planner With Agentic AI
Turn Agent Into Research Assistant
Make Claws Collaborate as a Research Team
AI Teaching Assistants

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Agentic AI Learning Path

Learn the core concepts behind building AI agents, then build your first agent through guided, hands-on workshops.

Topics Include:

How to Build an AI Agent
How to Build an Agentic RAG Application
How to Customize AI Agents

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Master Agentic AI With NVIDIA Nemotron Labs

See NVIDIA experts demonstrate how foundation models are used in real-world AI applications and learn more about the NVIDIA Nemotron model family.

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Additional Resources

Explore NVIDIA tools, tutorials, and model resources that help you move from AI experimentation to impact.

Try Foundational Models in Your Browser

Experiment with NVIDIA-hosted foundation models, compare responses, and explore AI APIs without setting up infrastructure.

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NVIDIA Nemotron Models

Explore NVIDIA’s open model family for specialized AI agents. Models include Nano, Super, Ultra, Retriever, Parse, Speech, and Safety models.

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NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails

Learn how developers add safety, topic control, policy enforcement, and RAG grounding to LLM and agent applications.

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From foundational robotics to autonomous systems to safety certification—build your physical AI skills your way.

Robotics Virtual Learning Series

Explore the virtual learning series with a hands-on journey through NVIDIA’s robotics innovations, from foundational intelligence and autonomous systems to cutting-edge simulation and deployment at the edge. The series includes the following sessions:

Introduction to Physical AI & Robotics at NVIDIA
Accelerate Your Robotics Research With NVIDIA
Edge AI for Autonomous Machines: Powering Robots With NVIDIA Jetson™
Sim-to-Real: Accelerating Robotics Development With NVIDIA Isaac Sim™

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A Beginner's Guide to Autonomous Robots

Discover the world of autonomous robots and robotic systems with this introductory course. Learn about the fundamentals of robotic architecture and the structure of autonomy software.

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Accelerating Physical AI Certification With NVIDIA Halos

Get a comprehensive overview of the safety challenges involved in developing physical AI systems and explore the latest progress in AI safety standardization for autonomous vehicles and robotics.

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Additional Resources

Start with edge AI concepts and learn how AI models can run on devices, robots, and autonomous machines.

NVIDIA Jetson AI Lab Livestream Series

The Jetson™ AI Lab Livestream Series is a three-part community learning opportunity for students, educators, and researchers. Each session turns a Jetson AI Lab tutorial into a practical live build, from running local LLMs and VLMs to creating agentic workflows and real-time vision-language applications using open models.

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Getting Started With NVIDIA Jetson—Jetson AI Lab

Discover the step-by-step onboarding guide to cover hardware setup, SSH remote development, VS Code/Cursor integration, and AI-assisted workflows with NVIDIA Jetson™ Device Skills to get you building faster.

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Get Started With NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit

Get your Jetson Orin Nano™ up and running with the official quick-start guide on the developer kit.

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NVIDIA Isaac, Isaac Sim, Isaac ROS

Get started with AI robot development with NVIDIA Isaac™. Explore the open robotics development platform consisting of simulation and robot learning frameworks and NVIDIA CUDA™-accelerated libraries.

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Take the next step in building career and workforce skills with these tailored courses in deep learning, prompt engineering, and LLMs.

AI For Science

See the next generation of AI for science in this GTC 2026 series. Discover AI-driven healthcare breakthroughs, foundation models reshaping chemistry and materials discovery, and Gordon Bell-winning work on tsunami forecasting and climate simulation.

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Healthcare NIM Microservices

Leverage the ready-to-use NVIDIA NIM™ AI blueprints and models for drug discovery, genomics, and medical imaging in this healthcare hub.

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Build for the Future of Quantum Computing

Get started with NVIDIA CUDA-Q™, an open source quantum development platform for running powerful, large-scale quantum computing applications. Discover key features, starter kits, and learning resources.
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Upgrade Your Skills

Open Universal Scene Description is a free, open standard that's making it possible for anyone to build, share, and collaborate on rich 3D worlds as easily as we work on documents today. Explore the rapidly evolving landscape of AI and accelerated computing with on-demand sessions and talks.

The Path to OpenUSD Certification

Explore this comprehensive study series that covers everything you need to know to pass the OpenUSD development professional exam.

Topics Include:

Understanding Composition Arcs
Content Aggregation
Rendering and Visualizing

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OpenUSD Resources

OpenUSD is the open source framework powering digital twins, AI-driven 3D worlds, and modern content pipelines across industries. Explore the OpenUSD guide with core concepts to advanced techniques, with hands-on Python examples and a developer certification to validate your expertise.

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OpenUSD Development Certification

Take this intermediate-level credential to validate your expertise in building, maintaining, and optimizing 3D content creation pipelines using OpenUSD.

Additional Resources

Explore beginner-to-professional resources for understanding OpenUSD, the framework behind modern 3D collaboration, simulation, digital twins, and physical AI workflows.

What Is Open USD?

OpenUSD is Pixar's open source framework for describing and composing 3D scenes, now an industry standard for digital twins and AI worlds. Learn its core concepts, from non-destructive collaboration to cross-app interoperability.

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Learn OpenUSD

Free, open source learning path with fundamentals, exercises, glossary, notebooks, and certification prep.

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OpenUSD Developer Resources

Explore the developer hub and get started with Universal Scene Description, including free learning paths, pre-built binaries, NVIDIA Omniverse™ libraries, SimReady tools, certification, and community resources.

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NVIDIA OpenUSD Docs

Discover core concepts, best practices, and technical references to help researchers and developers build efficient, scalable 3D data pipelines for simulation and collaboration.

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OpenUSD Official Ecosystem

Explore the official OpenUSD documentation that covers everything from introductory tutorials and API references to schemas, specifications, and tooling for building collaborative 3D scene pipelines.

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NVIDIA Omniverse

Learn how OpenUSD connects to simulation, digital twins, and 3D workflows.

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Certification Webinar: Your Roadmap Across the AI Stack

Join NVIDIA Certification experts for a global webinar on the updated NVIDIA Certification framework. Learn how the five-layer certification roadmap maps credentials to technical roles; explore the new NCA AI Model & Application Development and AI Power & Cooling exams; and identify the certification path that best supports your career goals. The webinar also includes a live Q&A and guidance on what to expect from the exam experience.

Two sessions on November 19 | 9 a.m. CET or 9 a.m. PT

Bonus for attendees: Receive an exclusive 50% off exam discount code.

Ready to Validate Your Skills? Get Certified by NVIDIA.

Demonstrate your AI skills and take your career to the next level with technical certification from NVIDIA.

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