# The AI agent education market in 2026

*Published 2 October 2026 · learnagents.si · Asking price for learnagents.si: £1,000 GBP plus escrow fees*

**In short.** Learning to build AI agents has become one of the largest subjects in technical education. A single free course drew more than 1.5 million learners, paid agent courses count students in the hundreds of thousands, and Gartner expects agents inside 40% of enterprise apps by the end of 2026. Now that the US government calls AI "Super Intelligence" (SI), agent education is also getting a new vocabulary.

## The numbers

| Figure | What it measures |
|---|---|
| 1.5 million+ | People who signed up for Google and Kaggle's free 5-Day AI Agents Intensive in November 2025, one of the largest technical courses ever run. A second run was held 15–19 June 2026. |
| 231,000+ | Students on Ed Donner's AI Engineer Agentic Track on Udemy (4.7 rating, 34,000+ ratings), as reported by Scrimba in March 2026. |
| 37,000+ | Learners on Vanderbilt's AI Agent Developer programme on Coursera (same source). |
| 40% | Share of enterprise applications Gartner expects to include task-specific AI agents by the end of 2026, up from less than 5% in 2025. |
| $450bn+ | Gartner's best-case figure for agentic AI's share of enterprise application software revenue by 2035, about 30% of the total. |

## Who is buying agent education

- **Developers** moving from chat apps to agents that plan, call tools and act on their own.
- **Companies retraining staff** as agents arrive in the software they already use.
- **Non-technical professionals** who need to direct and check agents rather than build them.
- **Students and career-changers** after "AI engineer" roles.

## Who is selling it

- **Big platforms:** Google and Kaggle, Coursera, Udemy, DeepLearning.AI and Hugging Face. Prices run from free to around $49 a month.
- **Independent instructors and bootcamps,** whose courses are often the best-selling ones.
- **Framework and tooling companies** that teach developers to build on their stack.

Most of these sellers trade on a person's name or a platform's brand. Few own a short, plain-English name for the subject itself, and that is the gap learnagents.si fills.

## What this means for learnagents.si

- **The subject is big and still growing.** Every company adding agents to its products creates people who need to learn them.
- **The name says what the product is.** "Learn agents" is what learners type and what an academy, course or newsletter promises.
- **The extension fits the moment.** .si now reads as Super Intelligence. See https://learnagents.si/insights/ai-agents-to-si-agents.md and https://learnagents.si/insights/why-learnagents-si.md

## Frequently asked questions

**How many people are learning to build AI agents?** More than 1.5 million people signed up for Google and Kaggle's free 5-Day AI Agents Intensive in November 2025. On paid platforms, one Udemy agent-engineering course reports 231,000+ students and a Coursera agent-developer programme reports 37,000+.

**Why is demand for AI agent skills growing?** Gartner predicts that 40% of enterprise applications will include task-specific AI agents by the end of 2026, up from less than 5% in 2025. In its best case, agentic AI drives around 30% of enterprise application software revenue by 2035, over $450 billion.

**Who sells AI agent training?** Big platforms (Google and Kaggle, Coursera, Udemy, DeepLearning.AI, Hugging Face), independent instructors, bootcamps, and agent framework companies that teach developers to use their tools. Prices run from free to around $49 a month for subscription platforms.

## Related reading

- [From AI agents to SI agents](https://learnagents.si/insights/ai-agents-to-si-agents.md): What the US Super Intelligence rename means for agent education
- [The case for learnagents.si](https://learnagents.si/insights/why-learnagents-si.md): .si registration figures, comparable sales and likely uses
- [learnagents.si price and how to buy](https://learnagents.si/pricing.md): £1,000 through Escrow.com checkout

## Sources

- [Google — Inside Kaggle's AI Agents Intensive course with Google](https://blog.google/technology/developers/ai-agents-intensive-recap/)
- [TechRepublic — Google and Kaggle relaunch free AI agents course (June 2026)](https://techrepublic.com/article/news-google-kaggle-ai-agents-course-vibe-coding)
- [Scrimba — Best courses to learn AI agents and agentic AI in 2026](https://scrimba.com/articles/best-courses-to-learn-ai-agents-and-agentic-ai-in-2026)
- [Gartner — 40% of enterprise apps will feature task-specific AI agents by 2026 (26 Aug 2025)](https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-08-26-gartner-predicts-40-percent-of-enterprise-apps-will-feature-task-specific-ai-agents-by-2026-up-from-less-than-5-percent-in-2025)