Essential AI Reading List: Guides from OpenAI, Google & Anthropic
A curated collection of the most important whitepapers and resources for mastering enterprise AI, from prompt engineering to building agents.
It seems like there's a new AI tool or update every single day, making it tough to know where to even start. If you're looking for practical advice without the jargon, you're in the right place. We've compiled a short list of the best guides we could find from teams at Google, OpenAI, and more. These reads are all about getting things done—from coming up with clever project ideas to simply making your daily workflow a little easier with AI.
AI in the Enterprise: Lessons from seven frontier companies
This guide from OpenAI discusses how global companies are using AI to improve workforce performance and automate operations. It provides seven lessons for enterprise AI adoption, including starting with evaluations and embedding AI into products.
A Practical Guide to Building Agents
This OpenAI guide is for product and engineering teams building their first AI agents. It offers insights on identifying use cases, designing agent logic, and ensuring agents are safe and effective.
Identifying and Scaling AI Use Cases
This guide from OpenAI helps organizations discover and scale AI use cases that deliver clear value. It breaks the process down into identifying opportunities, teaching fundamental use cases, and prioritizing high-impact applications.
GPT-4.1 Prompting Guide
This OpenAI Cookbook guide offers prompting tips to help developers utilize the advanced capabilities of the GPT-4.1 model family. It emphasizes clear instructions and iterative evaluation, covering topics like agentic workflows, tool calls, planning, and instruction following to achieve optimal performance.
Gemini for Google Workspace Prompting Guide 101
This guide from Google provides foundational skills for writing effective prompts when using Gemini for Workspace. It aims to help users boost productivity and creativity by collaborating with AI.
Agents Companion
This Kaggle whitepaper, part of a "5-Day Gen AI Intensive Course with Google," delves into building sophisticated AI agents. It covers core components, the iterative development process, and advanced agentic architectures.
601 real-world generative AI use cases from industry leaders
This Google Cloud report showcases 601 real-world generative AI applications from leading global companies, a significant increase from the previous year. It highlights the growing importance of generative AI across various industries and its use in operations, creativity, and strategy.
Prompt Engineering
This Kaggle whitepaper provides a detailed look at prompt engineering, including various techniques to get started. It also shares tips and best practices for becoming an expert in prompting.
Building Effective AI Agents
This article from Anthropic provides strategies for building AI agents, with a focus on simple, composable patterns. It offers practical advice and highlights various workflows and agentic systems for developers.
Prompt engineering overview
This Anthropic guide explains prompt engineering as a way to control model behavior more efficiently than fine-tuning. It includes tips and techniques for improving prompts, such as being clear, using examples, and allowing the AI to "think."
AI Agents: 25 Use Cases Transforming Industries
This white paper from StackAI details 25 distinct use cases for AI agents across industries like finance, healthcare, and operations. It explains how AI agents work, their differences from chatbots, and provides specific examples of how they are used to automate complex tasks such as investment memo generation, patient report creation, and competitive analysis.
AI Tools For Marketing: Your Go-to Guide For Top Marketing Tools And Techniques
This guide by Linkedist serves as an introduction to the impact of AI on marketing, exploring a wide range of AI tools designed to enhance design, copywriting, and project management skills. It provides a comprehensive overview of applications for content creation, visual generation, website curation, and more to help marketers optimize their efforts.
2025 Interesting AI tools
Artificial intelligence is increasingly integrated into various software applications, offering new ways to manage tasks, create content, and access information. This guide provides an overview of several AI tools, categorized by their primary functions, to help you understand their capabilities and potential applications.