For partners
Cyberiad Labs teaches people to work with AI without handing it their thinking. Those skills help people keep a job or find one, and keep organisations relevant.
We teach learners directly, and we work with schools, universities, companies, NGOs and governments.
Start the conversation with Julien Barbier:
julien@cyberiadlabs.com
Our own numbers
What I liked most was the simplicity in the language. I find it hard to understand most AI courses because the wording is so complicated but today after a long time, I have finally understood tool calling.
I've been using AI, but I didn't know I had access to local AI that I can use at no cost. It's exciting to be able to ask questions without access to the internet.
Three ways to work with us
A licensed or commissioned course can carry your brand instead of ours: your name on the sessions, the quizzes and the certificates.
Option one
Who teaches: your team
For now there is one course to license, Introduction to AI and LLMs, and more are coming. Your own team runs it, on your calendar, under your brand or ours. The licence covers the sessions, the quizzes, the updates and support.
Introduction to AI and LLMs, as we run it
You can adapt it and run it the way you like.
Option two
Who teaches: your team
We sit with you, listen to what you need, and build a course that makes sense for your people, whatever their age. We test it end to end before anyone teaches it, and it does what we agreed.
If you train other organisations, we can work with you on courses for your clients too.
Our courses are made of building blocks: every session stands alone, with its own quiz, so we can move sessions around and package them into the course you need, whether that is a day, a week or a month.
Option three
Who teaches: we do
Our public classes are free for learners, but places are limited. If your organisation is a non-profit or a foundation and does not charge its learners, you can become an education partner: you get a set number of free places for your learners in selected classes. We agree that number with you, and you pay for any places beyond it. A company, or an organisation that charges its learners, pays for its places.
The Mandela AI Hub Foundation works with us this way: up to 250 free places in selected classes.
Reporting
You get your own dashboard, and it updates as your learners work. Per class and overall, you see:
You see a learner's name only if they have agreed to share their record with you; we count everyone else and never list them. If you need it, we can host the database in your country.
Who we are
Co-founder.
Julien co-founded Holberton School, a software engineering school with no teachers, no lectures and no upfront tuition. It grew from one campus in San Francisco to 32 worldwide before it was acquired.
He then led product and growth at ALX across its software engineering and applied AI programmes, where the number of learners went from a few thousand to more than 1.6 million. Before Holberton, he was the first head of marketing, growth and community at Docker.
Co-founder.
Youssef is a full-stack engineer. He learned to code on Julien's 12-month ALX software engineering programme. He finished it on an Android tablet, because cerebral palsy limits him to about two words a minute on a computer keyboard.
He also built MathVellum, a maths editor for people who cannot hold a pen.
Our founders' reach
Our founders' programmes have reached learners in every coloured country, online or in person. Today that is through Cyberiad Labs and its partners. Earlier, it was through Holberton School and its partners, and through the ALX software engineering and applied AI programmes that Julien created.
Contact
Tell us who you are and who your learners are. Tell us which of the three ways you have in mind, how many learners you expect, when you would like to start, and any limits you work within. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right builders for the job, what it would take and what it would cost.
Write to Julien Barbier:
julien@cyberiadlabs.com
Education partners
Our education partners have free places held for their learners in our classes.
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