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title: "AI communities directory"
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# AI communities directory

The Discords, study groups, and organizations worth joining as an aspiring AI researcher — a curated, active-only directory.

## Community servers

### [AI Research × Software](https://x.com/i/communities/1935642350765924358)

- Platform: twitter

### [LocalLLaMA](https://x.com/i/communities/1958212555958022177)

- Platform: twitter

### [Machine Learning](https://x.com/i/communities/1509381007950204928)

- Platform: twitter

### [GroundZero AI](https://discord.gg/tdztf4kXvz)

- Platform: discord

### [Eureka Labs](https://discord.gg/axGCnnQ5Mm)

- Platform: discord

### [GPU MODE](https://discord.gg/g5gAD2vFcm)

- Platform: discord

### [Umar Jamil AI](https://discord.gg/GwRfpxPCnH)

- Platform: discord

### [The Neural Nest](https://discord.gg/qt3aPSGNNk)

- Platform: discord

### [TheBloke AI](https://discord.gg/SxswPydGRU)

- Platform: discord

### [fast.ai](https://discord.gg/zJy2PKwWDu)

- Platform: discord

### [Latent Space](https://discord.gg/KaM9H6QQ5c)

- Platform: discord

### [Mech Interp](https://discord.gg/kfAx26aZY3)

- Platform: discord

### [EleutherAI](https://discord.gg/RPKhmstvG2)

- Platform: discord

### [UWaterloo Data Science Club](https://discord.gg/ZYccDZVQ)

- Platform: discord

### [WAT.ai](https://discord.gg/rQ7gZbne)

- Platform: discord

### [r/MachineLearning](https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/)

- Platform: reddit

### [r/deeplearning](https://www.reddit.com/r/deeplearning/)

- Platform: reddit

### [r/LocalLLaMA](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/)

- Platform: reddit

### [r/ChatGPT](https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/)

- Platform: reddit

## People to follow

### [Andrej Karpathy](https://x.com/karpathy)

Former OpenAI/Tesla AI lead. Builds neural nets from scratch, legendary educator.

- karpathy
- Category: Researchers & Scientists

### [Yann LeCun](https://x.com/ylecun)

Meta Chief AI Scientist, Turing Award winner, pioneer of CNNs.

- ylecun
- Category: Researchers & Scientists

### [Ilya Sutskever](https://x.com/ilyasut)

Co-founder SSI, former OpenAI Chief Scientist. Co-invented AlexNet.

- ilyasut
- Category: Researchers & Scientists

### [François Chollet](https://x.com/fchollet)

Creator of Keras, ARC-AGI benchmark. Deep thinker on intelligence.

- fchollet
- Category: Researchers & Scientists

### [Sasha Rush](https://x.com/srush_nlp)

Cornell professor, NLP researcher. Built The Annotated Transformer.

- srush_nlp
- Category: Researchers & Scientists

### [Chris Olah](https://x.com/ch402)

Anthropic researcher, pioneer of neural network interpretability and visualization.

- ch402
- Category: Researchers & Scientists

### [Lilian Weng](https://x.com/lilianweng)

OpenAI. Writes the best ML blog posts — comprehensive, clear, deep.

- lilianweng
- Category: Researchers & Scientists

### [Jason Wei](https://x.com/_jasonwei)

OpenAI. Pioneered chain-of-thought prompting research.

- _jasonwei
- Category: Researchers & Scientists

### [Tri Dao](https://x.com/tri_dao)

Creator of FlashAttention. Princeton professor, Together AI.

- tri_dao
- Category: Researchers & Scientists

### [Noam Brown](https://x.com/polynoam)

OpenAI researcher. Built Libratus/Pluribus (poker AI), reasoning research.

- polynoam
- Category: Researchers & Scientists

### [Jim Fan](https://x.com/DrJimFan)

NVIDIA senior research scientist. Foundation agents, embodied AI.

- DrJimFan
- Category: Researchers & Scientists

### [Chip Huyen](https://x.com/chipro)

Stanford, ML systems author. Wrote 'Designing ML Systems'.

- chipro
- Category: Researchers & Scientists

### [Neel Nanda](https://x.com/NeelNanda5)

Google DeepMind. Mechanistic interpretability researcher.

- NeelNanda5
- Category: Researchers & Scientists

### [Pieter Abbeel](https://x.com/PieterAbbeel)

UC Berkeley professor. Robotics, reinforcement learning pioneer.

- PieterAbbeel
- Category: Researchers & Scientists

### [Sebastian Raschka](https://x.com/rasbt)

LLM Research Engineer. Author of 'Build a LLM From Scratch' (90K GitHub stars), LLM Architecture Gallery (52 models), 'Ahead of AI' newsletter, and 170+ deep learning lectures.

- rasbt
- Category: Researchers & Scientists

### [Andrew Ng](https://x.com/AndrewYNg)

DeepLearning.AI, Coursera co-founder, Stanford. Made ML accessible to millions.

- AndrewYNg
- Category: Educators & Creators

### [Grant Sanderson](https://x.com/3blue1brown)

3Blue1Brown. The gold standard for math visualizations and intuition.

- 3blue1brown
- Category: Educators & Creators

### [Jeremy Howard](https://x.com/jeremyphoward)

fast.ai co-founder. Practical deep learning education, top-down approach.

- jeremyphoward
- Category: Educators & Creators

### [Jay Alammar](https://x.com/JayAlammar)

Visual ML explainer. The Illustrated Transformer is a must-read.

- JayAlammar
- Category: Educators & Creators

### [Vuk Rosic](https://x.com/VukGit)

This curriculum's creator. Teaches AI research from math to LLMs from scratch.

- VukGit
- Category: Educators & Creators

### [Pratham](https://x.com/prathamgrv)

Built TensorTonic (LeetCode for ML papers). Open-sourced arxiv-to-code Claude Code skill tracing every line back to paper sections.

- prathamgrv
- Category: Builders & Engineers

### [Daniel Bourke](https://x.com/mrdbourke)

ML educator. PyTorch tutorials, learning in public, great energy.

- mrdbourke
- Category: Educators & Creators

### [Abhishek Thakur](https://x.com/abhaborhakur)

Kaggle 4x Grandmaster. Practical ML, AutoML, competitions.

- abhaborhakur
- Category: Educators & Creators

### [Elvis Saravia](https://x.com/omarsar0)

DAIR.AI founder. Curates ML papers, prompt engineering guides.

- omarsar0
- Category: Educators & Creators

### [Sentdex](https://x.com/Sentdex)

Python and ML tutorials. Neural networks from scratch, practical projects.

- Sentdex
- Category: Educators & Creators

### [Two Minute Papers](https://x.com/TwoMinutePapers)

AI research paper summaries. 'What a time to be alive!'

- TwoMinutePapers
- Category: Educators & Creators

### [Yannic Kilcher](https://x.com/yaborkilcher)

ML paper deep-dives on YouTube. Thorough, critical analysis.

- yaborkilcher
- Category: Educators & Creators

### [Weights & Biases](https://x.com/weights_biases)

ML experiment tracking. Great educational content and tutorials.

- weights_biases
- Category: Educators & Creators

### [Hugging Face](https://x.com/huggingface)

The GitHub of ML. Models, datasets, spaces — essential for any ML practitioner.

- huggingface
- Category: Educators & Creators

### [George Hotz](https://x.com/realGeorgeHotz)

tinygrad creator, tinybox. Building the simplest deep learning framework.

- realGeorgeHotz
- Category: Builders & Engineers

### [Soumith Chintala](https://x.com/soaborumith)

Co-creator of PyTorch. Meta AI research engineer.

- soaborumith
- Category: Builders & Engineers

### [Harrison Chase](https://x.com/hwchase17)

LangChain creator. Building the LLM application stack.

- hwchase17
- Category: Builders & Engineers

### [Simon Willison](https://x.com/simonw)

LLM tooling pioneer. Created Datasette, writes extensively on practical AI.

- simonw
- Category: Builders & Engineers

### [swyx](https://x.com/swyx)

AI engineer, Latent Space podcast. Bridges ML research and engineering.

- swyx
- Category: Builders & Engineers

### [Aravind Srinivas](https://x.com/AravSrinivas)

Perplexity AI CEO. Building AI-powered search.

- AravSrinivas
- Category: Builders & Engineers

### [Aidan Gomez](https://x.com/aidangomez)

Cohere CEO, Transformer paper co-author. Building enterprise LLMs.

- aidangomez
- Category: Builders & Engineers

### [Sam Bhagwat](https://x.com/calcsam)

Mastra.ai founder, Gatsby co-founder. Wrote Principles of Building AI Agents.

- calcsam
- Category: Builders & Engineers

### [Emad Mostaque](https://x.com/EMostaque)

Founded Stability AI, open-source advocate for generative AI.

- EMostaque
- Category: Builders & Engineers

### [Arthur Mensch](https://x.com/arthurmensch)

Mistral AI CEO. Building open-weight European LLMs.

- arthurmensch
- Category: Builders & Engineers

### [Dylan Patel](https://x.com/dylan522p)

SemiAnalysis. Deep technical analysis of AI hardware and infrastructure.

- dylan522p
- Category: Builders & Engineers

### [Sam Altman](https://x.com/sama)

OpenAI CEO. Leading the frontier of AGI development.

- sama
- Category: Leaders & Thinkers

### [Demis Hassabis](https://x.com/demaborishassabis)

Google DeepMind CEO. Nobel Prize winner, AlphaFold creator.

- demaborishassabis
- Category: Leaders & Thinkers

### [Dario Amodei](https://x.com/DarioAmodei)

Anthropic CEO. AI safety research, building Claude.

- DarioAmodei
- Category: Leaders & Thinkers

### [Greg Brockman](https://x.com/gabordb)

OpenAI co-founder and former president.

- gabordb
- Category: Leaders & Thinkers

### [Fei-Fei Li](https://x.com/draborfeifei)

Stanford professor, created ImageNet. Co-director Stanford HAI.

- draborfeifei
- Category: Leaders & Thinkers

### [Lex Fridman](https://x.com/lexfridman)

MIT researcher, podcaster. Deep conversations with AI leaders.

- lexfridman
- Category: Leaders & Thinkers

### [Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://x.com/ESYudkowsky)

MIRI founder. AI alignment researcher, prolific writer on AI risk.

- ESYudkowsky
- Category: Leaders & Thinkers

### [Gary Marcus](https://x.com/GaryMarcus)

NYU professor emeritus. Critical voice on AI hype and limitations.

- GaryMarcus
- Category: Leaders & Thinkers

### [Papers with Code](https://x.com/paperswithcode)

Tracking ML papers with code. Essential for staying current.

- paperswithcode
- Category: Leaders & Thinkers

### [ML Street Talk](https://x.com/MLStreetTalk)

In-depth ML podcast. Technical interviews with top researchers.

- MLStreetTalk
- Category: Leaders & Thinkers

### [Interconnects](https://x.com/natolambert)

Nathan Lambert. RLHF expert, great blog on LLM training and alignment.

- natolambert
- Category: Leaders & Thinkers

### [Mira Murati](https://x.com/maboriramurati)

Thinking Machines Lab co-founder. Building Tinker for distributed training. Former OpenAI CTO.

- maboriramurati
- Category: Researchers & Scientists

### [Jerry Liu](https://x.com/jerryjliu0)

LlamaIndex creator. Building LiteParse, pioneering context engineering and agent workflows.

- jerryjliu0
- Category: Builders & Engineers

### [Guillermo Rauch](https://x.com/rauchg)

Vercel CEO. Distilling 10+ years of React/Next.js expertise into reusable agent skills. Driving the AI SDK ecosystem.

- rauchg
- Category: Builders & Engineers

### [Sankalp](https://x.com/dejavucoder)

Wrote the most-bookmarked Claude Code guide (20K bookmarks). Deep dives on prompt caching and agent optimization.

- dejavucoder
- Category: Educators & Creators

### [Boris Cherny](https://x.com/bcherny)

Head of Claude Code at Anthropic. Open-sourced code-simplifier plugin. Shares the inside story of building AI coding tools.

- bcherny
- Category: Builders & Engineers

### [Aadit Sheth](https://x.com/aaditsh)

Curates viral AI learning content — AI coding rules (16K bookmarks), vibe coding guides, learning roadmaps. Consistently high signal.

- aaditsh
- Category: Educators & Creators

### [Akshay Pachaar](https://x.com/akshay_pachaar)

Wrote the 384-page AI Engineering Guidebook. Shares novel RAG techniques and comprehensive AI engineering deep dives.

- akshay_pachaar
- Category: Educators & Creators

### [Virat Singh](https://x.com/virattt)

Built Dexter, an open-source financial research agent. Demonstrates agentic search without RAG for SEC filings.

- virattt
- Category: Builders & Engineers

### [Archie Sengupta](https://x.com/archiexzzz)

Built a vector DB from first principles. Deep dives on security, token optimization, and design-to-code workflows.

- archiexzzz
- Category: Builders & Engineers

### [Alex Prompter](https://x.com/alex_prompter)

Surfaces key research papers: Verbalized Sampling, SWE-CI benchmark, ACE. Sharp technical analysis of what matters.

- alex_prompter
- Category: Educators & Creators

### [Brady Long](https://x.com/thisguyknowsai)

Covers AI tools for learning and productivity. Google LearnLM breakdowns with 20K+ bookmarks.

- thisguyknowsai
- Category: Educators & Creators

### [Poonam Soni](https://x.com/CodeByPoonam)

Curated the most-bookmarked compilation (25K) of official AI guides from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.

- CodeByPoonam
- Category: Educators & Creators

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