YouTube remains a valuable tool for learning about artificial intelligence. Many creators, French-speaking or English-speaking, explain how these technologies work and show how to use them in everyday life. Here is a selection of seven channels, with varied languages and levels.
- Seven YouTube channels teach AI to French and English speakers at different levels.
- Kevin Stratvert publishes beginner tutorials in English several times a week.
- Tina Huang targets intermediate and advanced learners with English videos on AI and code.
- Shubham Sharma and Ludovic Salenne offer French tutorials on AI tools and productivity.
Tutorials to get to grips with the tools
A trained engineer, Shubham Sharma shares tips on productivity and automation using AI on his channel, which has 323,000 subscribers. He tests the latest developments, simplifies concepts, and shows how to move from theory to practice using concrete examples. His videos, in French, are released at a rate of 4 to 5 per month and are aimed at an intermediate level. They are primarily for those who want to delegate repetitive tasks to AI.
Kevin Stratvert, who was a product manager at Microsoft for nearly 15 years, offers step-by-step tutorials in English on AI, as well as on productivity tools and common software. His channel has 4.4 million subscribers and publishes several videos per week, aimed at beginners. The stated goal is ‘to break down complex technology into simple steps’. New trainers have recently joined his channel.
In French, Ludovic Salenne, an entrepreneur specializing in AI since 2018, brings together over 260,000 subscribers with tutorials and news on ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, as well as on automation and digital marketing. In an interview with BDM, he advised beginners to choose a single tool and master it before switching. His videos are released at a rate of 3 to 4 per month.
More advanced formats and varied approaches
Tina Huang, a computer science graduate from the University of Pennsylvania and former data scientist at Meta, started her channel to share what she was learning about AI. Her channel, which has 1.3 million subscribers, mixes AI, code, and tech, under the motto: minimize effort to maximize results. It is aimed at an intermediate to advanced audience and publishes 4 videos per month, in English.
Lukas Margerie, a product designer and no-code developer, primarily addresses designers and agencies who want to create visuals, applications, and websites with the help of AI, particularly Claude Code and Codex. His tutorials cover specific tasks, such as configuring Codex with Figma’s MCP server, which is a tool that allows an AI to connect to other software. His channel has over 27,000 subscribers.
The video podcast Comptoir IA, hosted by Nicolas Guyon, an artificial intelligence trainer, has nearly 10,000 subscribers. Each episode, published weekly, hosts an AI specialist or a professional whose job is evolving with these tools, such as investors, executives, researchers, or creatives. Themes range from agentic AI in business to cinema. Finally, Projets IA, hosted by Anaïs, explains how artificial intelligence works through analogies, without overly technical jargon. She covers topics such as neural networks, the cost of tokens (units of text processed by a model), or how ChatGPT generates text.
