1. The Frontier Giants • Gemini: Access 1.5B tokens/day on Gemini 1.5 Flash/Pro. That is an astronomical amount of context for RAG and long-document analysis. • OpenAI: Their “Data Sharing” program offers 250k/2.5M tokens daily. • xAI Grok: Spend just $5 and unlock $150/month in free credits. • Amazon AWS: New users get $100 credit for 6 months, providing access to 200+ models including Opus 4.7 and GPT 5.1. 2. Speed & Open-Source Powerhouses • Groq: The king of inference speed. Access Llama 3.3-70b and Qwen3-32b at speeds that feel like magic—completely free. • Mistral: Their Experimental Program offers a massive 1B free tokens per month. • Nvidia: Use the Nemotron suite via their developer playground for high-performance base models. 3. The Aggregators & Community Hubs • Hugging Face: The "GitHub of AI" provides a Free Serverless Inference API for thousands of models (Llama, Stable Diffusion, Whisper). No credit card required. • OpenRouter: Access 50+ models with unlimited usage tiers for experimentation. • Deepinfra: Get 1M tokens/day on Llama/Mistral models just for signing up with an email. 4. Specialized & Niche Access • Cohere: Their Trial API gives 1,000 calls/month for the best-in-class Rerank v3 and multilingual Aya models. • Lepton AI: $10 free credit on signup to test Llama and Gemma models in a streamlined playground. So, what are building today?

For those who missed the first post or just joined: The Lyceum is a 12-week program we're building. Live instruction from Jake and the Eduba team. Small cohorts. Real projects. You build something from week one, not watch tutorials. At the end, a competition with real prizes. Eduba's first certification, backed by the same methodology we've used to train Fortune 500 teams. Now here's what we've locked in since then. The Structure Three 4-week sprints with a 1-week break between each. Not 12 straight weeks of grind. You build, you breathe, you come back sharper. - Sprint 1: Foundation — Core methodology. Everyone starts here. - Sprint 2: Application — You're building. Real project, real progress. - Sprint 3: Capstone — Finish what you started. Demo day prep. The breaks aren't fluff. They're built in so you can catch up, refine, or just live your life without falling behind. The Cohorts Same curriculum across all three. The difference is where your hours go. Technical — Developers, engineers, technical founders. You're building a tool or production system. 30% of your time goes to Claude Code and integrations. Another 30% to production systems and capstone. This is the builder track. Business — Ops, managers, founders, consultants. You're automating a process or designing a system spec. Heavy emphasis on workflow design (30%) and decision frameworks (25%). You direct the work without writing the code. Creator — Marketers, educators, solo operators. You're building a content production system. One person replaces the team. 25% on content pipelines, 20% on workflow design. This is how you scale yourself. Pick the track that matches how you work. The methodology transfers no matter which one you choose. A 4th Cohort? We're considering adding a team cohort if there's enough interest. This would be for companies that want to enroll multiple employees, or for people in the community who want to form their own team and build together. If that sounds like you, let us know in the comments.