SPUR's learning platform offers a full path from your first conversation with a model to building production AI systems on sovereign Canadian compute. Work through the sequential path, jump into the professional track, or start kids on the basics. Every course is free and every course awards a SPUR certificate.
There's one sequential path from beginner to frontier, a parallel track for working professionals, and two bonus courses.
Start with Intro to AI, then build up through Intermediate, Advanced, and Master. Each course expects the previous one as a prerequisite.
For professionals who want to use AI at work without going deep on the theory. No prerequisites. Take it alongside any course above.
Shorter starter courses. AI 101 is a gentler on-ramp than the full Intro. AI for Families is built for kids and parents to work through together.
Every course is free. Every course awards a certificate on 100% completion. Most include inline diagrams and quizzes.
Beginner on-ramp. A short course for people who haven't touched AI before. Covers what AI actually is, how to talk to a model, and what you can realistically expect from one. Perfect before committing to the full Intro course.
Full free course with capstone. SPUR's flagship beginner course. Goes from "what does AI even mean" through prompting, retrieval, agents, fine-tuning, and shipping a real project on SPUR GPUs. Awards a verifiable SPUR certificate.
The next step after Intro. Deeper prompting patterns, retrieval-augmented generation, model selection, embeddings, long-context work, multi-turn systems, data analysis, writing workflows, multimodal models, and deploying what you build.
Learn more about Intermediate AI
Production-grade AI engineering. Agents, fine-tuning, evaluation, structured outputs, multi-agent orchestration, retrieval at scale, cost and latency tuning, security, caching and batching, and full production pipelines.
The frontier. Transformer internals, post-training, the research frontier, pretraining, mixture-of-experts, efficient attention, inference optimisation, interpretability, the agentic frontier, and AI safety and governance.
Parallel track, no prerequisite. For professionals who need to use AI on the job this quarter, not in two years. Using AI tools, implementing agents, team deployment, research workflows, decision-making, communication, automation, integrations, safety and privacy, and ongoing practice.
Learn more about Applied AI at Work
Bonus track. A gentle, parent-friendly introduction built for kids and families to go through together. Covers what AI is, how to use it safely, what it's good for, and simple activities to try at home.
No paywalls, no upsell, no payment details required. SPUR covers GPU time for hands-on lessons on the Intro course.
Start anytime. Your progress is saved to your account and syncs across devices.
All courses include quizzes. The four advanced courses include inline mermaid diagrams so complex concepts stay visual.
Each course awards a verifiable SPUR certificate when you hit 100% completion. Free to issue.
30 seconds to sign up. No credit card. Jump into any course in the catalogue immediately.
