After setting a Guinness World Record in April with over 280,000 participants in Kaggle’s 5-Day GenAI intensive course with Google, we thought we’d seen the peak of global interest. Yet the excitement was only growing. Our partnership with Kaggle to host the 5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course surpassed all expectations, welcoming over 1.5 million learners from around the world. Together, we explored the frontier of AI agents moving beyond chatbots to systems that can reason, plan and take action to solve complex, real-world problems. The response was nothing short of inspiring, and confirmed what we’ve long believed: the developer community is ready for what’s next.
The content
Building on the foundation of our previous GenAI intensive, this course went deeper into the practical realities of AI agents. We examined how AI agents actually work, where they shine and the challenges developers face, when designing and deploying them in production.
Learners received hands-on guidance from a lineup of expert speakers, including leaders from Google, alongside industry pioneers from Cohere, Reified and NVIDIA. Sessions emphasized real-world applications, architectural decisions and emerging best practices — equipping participants with skills they could immediately put to use.
If you missed attending the intensive in November, all the coursework has now been transformed into a Kaggle Learn Guide.
The community
We were inspired by the energy and excitement from the Kaggle community. Throughout the week, learners connected, collaborated and shared ideas at an incredible scale:
- 160,000+ learners joining the conversation on Kaggle’s Discord
- 2 million views on the course whitepapers, reflecting strong interest in conceptual depth.
- 3.3 million views on the course notebooks, reflecting a massive appetite for technical depth
The capstone projects
The capstone projects brought the week together, turning learning into action at a global scale. We received over 11,000 submissions, many from collaborative teams that formed during the course to bring bold ideas to life.
The projects demonstrated the creativity, technical skill and imagination of the global AI community. From practical agent-based workflows to ambitious multi-agent systems, the quality and diversity of submissions made it incredibly difficult to narrow down the top entries. You can explore all the winning teams and their capstone projects here.
What’s next
Whether you participated in a capstone project or followed along with the sessions, your engagement made this course a tremendous success. Learning alongside such a motivated and passionate community has been truly inspiring.
We’re already looking forward to bringing back another intensive with Google in 2026. In the meantime, you can continue honing your skills through ongoing Kaggle competitions and stay connected with fellow learners on the Kaggle Discord. For those who missed the November intensive but still want to learn, all course content is now available as a Kaggle Learn guide.
Thank you to everyone who joined us — we can’t wait to see what you build next.
