{"id":225677,"date":"2026-03-20T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/a-comprehensive-guide-to-ai-training-for-small-businesses-co\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T09:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:50:10","slug":"a-comprehensive-guide-to-ai-training-for-small-businesses-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/a-comprehensive-guide-to-ai-training-for-small-businesses-co\/","title":{"rendered":"A Comprehensive Guide to AI Training for Small Businesses | CO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uschamber.com\/co\/start\/strategy\/ai-training-guide-small-business\">A Comprehensive Guide to AI Training for Small Businesses | CO<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uschamber.com\/co\/start\/strategy\/ai-training-guide-small-business\">https:\/\/www.uschamber.com\/co\/start\/strategy\/ai-training-guide-small-business<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-20 09:43:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.uschamber.com\">www.uschamber.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Small businesses are discovering that artificial intelligence delivers real results \u2014 but getting there takes the right support.\u00a0More than 75% of small business owners say they\u2019re currently using AI, of which 93% say AI has had a positive impact. Those that have deployed AI tools are seeing productivity and efficiency gains and expect to see increased revenue as a result.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0only 14% of small businesses are fully integrating AI into their core operations. An implementation gap has formed; more than 70% of small business owners say their organization would benefit from additional access to training to implement AI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, there are many free AI training tools and resources that can help close this gap. This guide includes online courses, books, webinars, and other tools that can help improve AI implementation at your company. We\u2019ll update this list regularly, so be sure to check back to see what new resources are available.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Getting started: general knowledge resources<\/h2>\n<h3>Free AI Training for Small Business by U.S. Chamber of Commerce<\/h3>\n<p>Our virtual and in-person AI trainings are developed with Google and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation. Find in-person workshops at your local chamber of commerce, or sign up for an online course designed specifically to help you unlock growth, streamline daily processes, and build a future-ready business \u2014 no tech background required.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Grow with Google AI for Small Businesses<\/h3>\n<p>Take free workshops (online or in-person) led by Google experts and other business owners. These courses cover AI for customer support, finance, marketing, and more. You can also watch the\u00a0Make AI Work for You video series for tutorials on how to make AI work in specific areas of your business. Also, check out\u00a0Google\u2019s Learn Essential AI Skills hub, a free library of short courses from Google covering generative AI, responsible AI, prompt engineering, and more.<\/p>\n<h3>OpenAI Academy<\/h3>\n<p>The company that created&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uschamber.com\/co\/start\/strategy\/ai-training-guide-small-business\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Comprehensive Guide to AI Training for Small Businesses | CO https:\/\/www.uschamber.com\/co\/start\/strategy\/ai-training-guide-small-business Publish Date: 2026-03-20&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/uschamber-co.imgix.net\/https%3A%2F%2Fs3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fco-assets%2Fassets%2Fimages%2Fspring-cleaning.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=jpg&fp-x=0.3962&fp-y=0.2497&h=630&q=80&w=1200&s=a36fc2d22a07ece068e775819c8014e7","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-225677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-generative-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225679,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225677\/revisions\/225679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}