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2 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Udemy Launches New AI Fluency Packages to Accelerate Workforce Transformation
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Udemy (Nasdaq: UDMY), a leading AI-powered skills development platform, today announced a suite of new AI Packages designed to help organizations and professionals develop AI fluency. The new packages provide end-to-end skills development to accelerate an organization's AI transformation, underscoring Udemy's position as a trusted upskilling and reskilling partner to nearly 80 million learners and more than 17,000 organizations across the globe. Udemy launches a suite of new AI Packages designed to help organizations and professionals develop AI fluency Share 'At Udemy, we believe that building the right AI skills, sharpening them over time, and keeping them up to date is the key to driving stronger business performance,' said Hugo Sarrazin, President & CEO at Udemy. 'As AI adoption surges across industries globally, Udemy's dynamic marketplace enables us to respond to technological shifts with unprecedented agility. While traditional publishers struggle to keep pace, our platform can introduce and update cutting-edge AI reskilling/upskilling journeys in real-time, ensuring learners and organizations are equipped with the most relevant skills.' In today's uncertain global labor market, and with the rapid pace of change in AI, organizations need expert guidance and support to assess their current skills gaps and develop a clear path forward to drive better outcomes. That's exactly what Udemy's new AI Packages are designed to support. Customers can get access to: The AI Readiness Package for building foundational AI skills. The AI Readiness Package includes 50 curated courses along with a structured introduction to AI concepts. Learners will also have access to the Udemy AI Assistant which provides real-time coaching and in-course support to help the learner better understand the concepts and tools being taught. Additionally, learners can develop real-world soft skills through immersive, instructor-designed conversation simulations with Udemy's AI-powered Role Play. The AI Growth Package to support teams who want more specialized AI skills. The AI Growth Package is targeted at teams looking to develop advanced, role-specific skills including generative AI for performance and productivity, neural networks for data science and engineering, and agentic AI. It builds on the AI Readiness Package and includes an additional 30+ curated learning paths, multilingual support, and certification prep, along with access to both the Udemy AI Assistant and Udemy AI Skills Mapping, which helps leaders develop personalized and targeted learning paths at scale. These new packages build on the success of Udemy's standalone AI courses, which have already surpassed 11 million enrollments, and the recently launched 'AI for Business Leaders' program designed to help senior leaders build core AI skills as they guide their teams toward developing an AI habit and, ultimately, AI fluency. To complement the new offerings and support more advanced use cases, including broader digital transformation initiatives, Udemy continues to offer a comprehensive Enterprise Plan that includes access to 30,000+ premium courses and 200+ certification paths as well as a full suite of Professional Services that gives learning and business leaders access to expert help so that they can develop a fully customized, end-to-end program aligned with business objectives. With the introduction of these new packages, Udemy continues to expand its suite of AI offerings – spanning both content and platform – delivering on its mission to transform lives through learning and drive AI fluency for organizations and professionals worldwide. To learn more about Udemy's unique approach to AI upskilling and reskilling, visit About Udemy Udemy (Nasdaq: UDMY) is an AI-powered skills development platform transforming how companies and individuals across the world build the capabilities needed to thrive in a rapidly evolving workplace. By combining on-demand, multi-language content with real-time innovation, Udemy delivers personalized experiences that empower organizations to scale workforce development and help individuals build the technical, business, and soft skills most relevant to their careers. Today, thousands of companies, including Ericsson, Samsung SDS America, On24, The World Bank, and Volkswagen, rely on Udemy Business for its enterprise solutions to build agile, future-ready teams. Udemy is headquartered in San Francisco, with hubs across the United States, Australia, India, Ireland, Mexico and Türkiye.
Yahoo
28-01-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
DeepSeek shock ‘puts Starmer's data centre plans at risk'
Sir Keir Starmer's plan to build scores of new data centres in Britain to make the country a 'world leader' in artificial intelligence (AI) has been thrown into doubt by the emergence of highly efficient Chinese chatbot. Experts said two fifths of the data centres being planned in Britain were now at risk of delay or cancellation as a result of the debut of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI that has sent shock waves through the technology industry. The highly sophisticated model has been built for a fraction of the cost of US rivals and using far less computing power, raising questions about how many data centres will ultimately be required for AI. Consultancy DC Byte said the DeepSeek scare was likely to shake confidence in data centre proposals that were not yet 'firmed up', or ones that were centred solely around AI. Data centres that would consume around 4,100 megawatts (MW) of power are currently in the pipeline across the country, compared to around 1,500MW online today. The enormous construction boom has been accelerated by expectations that powerful AI software will demand ever greater amounts of computing power to develop. But on Tuesday, DC Byte warned that around 1,700MW, or 41pc, of the extra capacity being planned was considered 'early stage' and now looked less certain. Edward Galvin, the chief executive of DC Byte, said: 'It's those companies that are developing data centre capacity or power generation capacity just for AI that will definitely be suffering now. 'With those early-stage schemes, there is no firm commitment and nothing is under construction yet, so it is much easier for people to back out.' Mr Galvin said he expected rents to fall on some data centres and for some early-stage deals to be put on the shelf for the time being. Doubts over data centre projects follows revelations that DeepSeek has developed a ground-breaking piece of AI software that uses just 10pc of the computing power of comparable models created by US rivals such as OpenAI and Meta. The announcement has shaken Silicon Valley executives and sent shares in tech companies, data centre developers, energy suppliers and nuclear power companies – all of which are expecting to benefit from an AI boom – plunging on Monday. DeepSeek has also cast doubt over Britain's AI action plan. The Prime Minister last month announced the creation of 'AI Growth Zones' to speed up planning approvals for data centres, part of attempts to make sure Britain does not fall behind in the global technology race. Despite doubts over AI-focused projects, Mr Galvin said demand for data centres more generally remained solid as companies and governments shift more data to the 'cloud' and as the use of social media and video streaming services such as Netflix continues to rise. Mr Galvin said: 'Is there fundamentally still demand? Yes. Was it all getting a little bit silly and a little bit frothy? Probably, yes.' Cameron Bell, of estate agent Savills, said: 'In truth, it's too early to say [whether DeepSeek will have an effect]. But by all accounts, we've been told to continue the work that we're doing. We haven't had any deals fall out of bed yet as a result of this.' Sign in to access your portfolio
