---
title: "AI Labs"
description: "AI Labs gives colleges and training teams a shared TIR workspace where Admins and Professors run courses and learners practise on GPU instances."
content_type: "overview"
product: "ai-labs"
platform: "TIR"
url: "/tir/ai-labs/"
---

# AI Labs

AI Labs is a TIR workspace for teaching AI. An Admin sets up an organization and Professors publish courses in it.
Learners work through the course material and practise on GPU instances, datasets, and model endpoints. Every
learner works inside the limits their group sets.

## What you can do

### Set up and run a class

- [Create an AI Labs organization](/tir/ai-labs/how-to/create-an-organization/) for a class or a team, on
  an hourly or committed plan.
- [Manage AI Labs groups and members](/tir/ai-labs/how-to/manage-groups-and-members/): set what learners
  can launch, and invite Admins, Professors, and learners.
- [Create an AI Labs course](/tir/ai-labs/how-to/create-a-course/) with modules, learners, and a shared
  dataset.
- [Run an AI Labs organization](/tir/ai-labs/how-to/manage-ai-labs-as-an-admin/): stop or start it, free up
  its GPUs, convert it to a committed plan, monitor it, and delete it.

### Learn in a course

The [learner guide](/tir/ai-labs/how-to/use-ai-labs-as-a-learner/) covers opening your courses, launching
instances, and working with datasets, model repositories, endpoints, the Playground, integrations, and
tokens.

## Roles

AI Labs has three roles. An Admin runs the account, a Professor teaches in an organization, and a learner takes
courses and practises. An Admin belongs to the whole AI Labs account. A Professor or a learner belongs to one
organization.

| Area               | Admin       | Professor        | Learner           |
| ------------------ | ----------- | ---------------- | ----------------- |
| Organization level | Full access | Limited access   | None              |
| Learner access     | Full access | Full access      | Assigned by Admin |
| Group management   | Full access | Read access only | None              |
| Member management  | Full access | Read access only | None              |
| Courses            | Full access | Full access      | Assigned by Admin |
| Data metrics       | Full access | Full access      | None              |

### How each role gets in

In TIR, the **AI Labs** item in the side menu is there for the account owner, Admins, and Professors. It opens the
AI Labs portal. Learners reach AI Labs through
the invitation email.

### What a learner sees

A learner sees the organizations they belong to and, in each, the courses they were added to. A learner can view
and download course files. Admins and Professors upload and change them. A learner works only with the instances,
datasets, model repositories, endpoints, integrations, and tokens they created.

A learner's group decides which services they can use and how many instances they can run on each plan. See [Create and manage groups](/tir/ai-labs/how-to/manage-groups-and-members/#create-a-group) and
[Add and manage members](/tir/ai-labs/how-to/manage-groups-and-members/#add-a-member).

## Where to start

An Admin starts with [Get started with AI Labs](/tir/ai-labs/get-started/), which sets up an organization,
a learner, and a course. The
[AI Labs FAQ](/tir/ai-labs/faq/) has short answers, and
[Troubleshooting AI Labs](/tir/ai-labs/troubleshooting/ai-labs/) explains the messages you see.