Awesome Artificial Intelligence

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A community-curated list of artificial intelligence resources — foundation models, agent frameworks, AI coding tools, courses, companies, jobs, and country-specific AI scenes (USA, China, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore).

Maintained since 2017 by Lightman Wang (LinkedIn).

Contributions welcome — open a PR or start a discussion. See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Legend: ⭐ Editor's pick · 🔥 Hot in 2026 · 🆕 New this year · 🇨🇳 Chinese-focused · 🇦🇺 Australia-focused

⭐ Editor's Picks 2026

If you only have 30 minutes — start here. Opinionated picks, updated each quarter.

Category	Picks
🤖 Frontier models	Claude Opus 4.7 (reasoning + agentic) · GPT-5.5 (polished) · Gemini 3 Pro (multimodal) · Grok 4 (real-time web)
🔓 Best open weights	Llama 4 (general) · Qwen3 (multilingual) · DeepSeek V3.2 (reasoning) · Mistral Large 3
💻 AI coding	Claude Code (CLI) · Cursor (IDE) · Codex CLI (OpenAI) · Aider (open-source)
🤝 Agent framework	Claude Agent SDK · LangGraph · Anthropic MCP · Pydantic AI
📚 RAG starter	pgvector (prototypes) · Qdrant (self-hosted prod) · Pinecone (managed)
⚡ Inference	Ollama (local) · vLLM (production) · Together AI / Groq (hosted)
📊 Observability	LangSmith (LangChain shop) · Helicone (open-source) · Braintrust (eval-first)
🎓 Free course	Karpathy's Zero to Hero · HuggingFace Agents Course
📰 Newsletter	Latent Space (engineering) · The Batch (overview) · Import AI (policy)
📖 Book	AI Engineering (Chip Huyen, 2025) · Build a LLM From Scratch (Sebastian Raschka)
🧬 Must-read paper	Attention Is All You Need (2017) — the Transformer

→ See full sections below for alternatives, runners-up, and emerging tools.

🤖 Foundation Models & APIs
💻 AI Coding Tools
🤝 Agent Frameworks & MCP
📚 RAG & Vector Databases
⚡ LLM Inference & Hosting
📊 LLM Ops & Observability
🎯 Fine-Tuning & Training
🛠️ Development Frameworks
🎓 Courses & Learning Paths
📖 Books, Papers & Blogs
🏢 Companies & Research Labs
🧠 Personal AI Tools
🎨 Specialized AI Tools — Image, Video, Audio, Writing, Health, Finance
📰 News, Newsletters & Podcasts
🎤 Events & Conferences
💼 AI Jobs
🌐 AI Communities by City
🌍 AI Scene by Country — USA, China, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore
🤖 Robotics & Embodied AI
Contributing

🤖 Foundation Models & APIs

Frontier (closed-source) APIs

Anthropic Claude ⭐ — Claude Opus 4.7 / Sonnet 4.6 / Haiku 4.5. Best reasoning + agentic + long-context (1M tokens). Strong code generation.
OpenAI GPT ⭐ — GPT-5.5 / GPT-5 / o3 / o3-mini reasoning models. Most polished general-purpose API.
Google Gemini ⭐ — Gemini 3 Pro / Flash. Best multimodal + 2M-token context + native tool use.
xAI Grok — Grok 4 with real-time web access via X data.
Cohere — Command R+ / R7B; enterprise RAG-focused LLMs.
Mistral Large 3 — European frontier model; strong code + multilingual.
Perplexity Sonar API — search-grounded LLM.
Reka Core — multimodal frontier model.

Open-weights models 🔥

Meta Llama 4 ⭐ — Llama 4 family (text + vision); the de facto open baseline.
Qwen3 (Alibaba) ⭐ 🇨🇳 — Qwen3 dense + MoE; strongest multilingual open model.
DeepSeek ⭐ 🇨🇳 — DeepSeek V3.2 / R1 reasoning. Frontier-level open model.
GLM 4.6 (Zhipu) 🇨🇳 (7k ⭐) — bilingual model from Tsinghua.
Mistral Open Models — Mixtral, Mistral Small/Medium 3.
Microsoft Phi-4 — small but strong models.
Hugging Face Hub ⭐ — central hub for 500k+ open-source models.
Kimi K2 (Moonshot) 🇨🇳 (11k ⭐) — open MoE from Moonshot; long-context champion.

Multimodal & Specialized 🆕

Sora 2 (OpenAI) — text-to-video; highest fidelity in 2026.
Veo 3 (Google) — video generation with native audio.
Stable Diffusion 3.5 — open image generation.
Flux 1.1 Pro / Flux Kontext ⭐ — best-in-class open image gen + editing.
Recraft V3 — design-grade image generation.
ElevenLabs ⭐ — voice cloning + multilingual TTS.
Cartesia Sonic 🆕 — sub-100ms voice generation for real-time agents.
Hume EVI — emotion-aware voice AI.
Whisper Large v3 — open-source speech-to-text.
Suno v4 / Udio — music generation.

💻 AI Coding Tools

AI assistants for writing, reviewing, refactoring code. The most disrupted developer category in 2025-2026.

Claude Code ⭐ 🔥 — Anthropic's CLI for software engineering with Claude. Most-used CLI agent in 2026.
Cursor ⭐ 🔥 — AI-first code editor; fork of VS Code.
Codex CLI (OpenAI) 🆕 (80k ⭐) — OpenAI's open-source CLI coding agent.
GitHub Copilot — original AI pair programmer; now agent + Workspace + Spark.
Windsurf — Codeium's AI editor (acquired by Cognition).
Aider (44k ⭐) — open-source AI pair programmer in your terminal.
Continue (33k ⭐) — open-source AI coding assistant for VS Code / JetBrains.
Cline (61k ⭐) — autonomous coding agent for VS Code.
Zed AI 🆕 — high-performance editor with native AI agent.
Augment Code — context-aware enterprise coding assistant.
Cody (Sourcegraph) — code AI with full-codebase context.
Codeium / Windsurf — free AI autocomplete.
Tabnine — privacy-focused; on-prem option.
Devin (Cognition) — autonomous SWE agent (paid, hosted).
Bolt.new — full-stack web app generation in browser.
v0 (Vercel) — AI UI generator with React/Next.js output.
Lovable — AI app builder.
Replit Agent — AI app generation in Replit.
Deepnote — AI-first Jupyter alternative with native data integrations and a built-in agent.

🤝 Agent Frameworks & MCP

Build LLM agents that plan, use tools, and execute multi-step tasks. 2026's hottest category.

Agent Frameworks

Claude Agent SDK ⭐ 🆕 — Anthropic's official agent SDK with skills, memory, sandboxing.
LangGraph ⭐ (31k ⭐) — graph-based agent orchestration; production-ready.
Anthropic Skills 🆕 — modular agent skills protocol.
Pydantic AI ⭐ — type-safe agent framework; clean Python API.
CrewAI (51k ⭐) — role-based multi-agent framework.
AutoGen (Microsoft) (58k ⭐) — multi-agent conversation framework.
OpenAI Swarm (21k ⭐) — lightweight multi-agent orchestration.
LlamaIndex Agents — agent runtime.
Vercel AI SDK ⭐ — React/Next.js agent SDK.
smolagents (Hugging Face) (27k ⭐) — minimal code-acting agent library.
Strands Agents (AWS) 🆕 (6k ⭐) — AWS open-source agent SDK.
Bedrock AgentCore 🆕 — AWS managed agent runtime.
Letta (formerly MemGPT) (22k ⭐) — agents with persistent memory.
Inspect AI (UK AISI) — agent eval framework from UK AI Safety Institute.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) 🔥

Model Context Protocol Spec ⭐ — Anthropic's open protocol for AI tool use. Industry standard since 2024.
Anthropic MCP Servers (85k ⭐) — official MCP servers (filesystem, fetch, GitHub, Postgres, Brave).
MCP Python SDK (23k ⭐) — build MCP servers in Python.
MCP TypeScript SDK (12k ⭐) — build MCP servers in TS.
Awesome MCP Servers ⭐ (86k ⭐) — community MCP server list.
FastMCP (25k ⭐) — Pythonic MCP server framework.

Browser & Computer Use 🆕

Anthropic Computer Use ⭐ — Claude controls your computer.
OpenAI Atlas 🆕 — OpenAI's agentic browser.
Browser Use (92k ⭐) — open-source browser automation for agents.
Skyvern (22k ⭐) — automate browser workflows with vision LLMs.
Playwright MCP (32k ⭐) — Playwright as an MCP server.
Stagehand (Browserbase) (22k ⭐) — Playwright + AI for reliable agents.

📚 RAG & Vector Databases

Retrieval-Augmented Generation: ground LLM answers in your data.

RAG Frameworks

LangChain ⭐ (136k ⭐) — most popular framework for LLM apps and RAG.
LlamaIndex ⭐ (49k ⭐) — data framework for LLM applications, RAG-focused.
Haystack (deepset) (25k ⭐) — open-source LLM framework.
RAGFlow 🔥 (80k ⭐) — open-source RAG engine with deep document understanding.
Cognita (TrueFoundry) — open-source RAG framework.
Verba (Weaviate) — RAG chatbot UI on Weaviate.
Pathway — real-time RAG and AI pipelines.

Vector Databases

pgvector ⭐ (21k ⭐) — Postgres extension; default for prototypes.
Qdrant ⭐ (31k ⭐) — open-source vector search engine in Rust; production-ready.
Pinecone ⭐ — managed vector database; serverless option.
Weaviate (16k ⭐) — open-source vector database with hybrid search.
Chroma (28k ⭐) — embeddings database for AI apps; great DX for prototypes.
Milvus (44k ⭐) — open-source vector database for production.
LanceDB — serverless / embedded vector database.
Turbopuffer 🆕 — serverless vector DB on object storage.
Vespa — search and recommendation with vector support.

Embedding Models

OpenAI text-embedding-3 / 4 — text-embedding-3-small/large.
Cohere Embed v3 / v4 — multilingual embedding models.
Voyage AI ⭐ — top-quality general embeddings (acquired by MongoDB).
BGE (BAAI) 🇨🇳 — open-source embeddings, leaderboard contender.
Sentence Transformers — open-source embeddings library.
Nomic Embed — open-source long-context embeddings.
Mixedbread (mxbai-embed) — open-source embeddings.

⚡ LLM Inference & Hosting

Ollama ⭐ (171k ⭐) — run LLMs locally with one command.
LM Studio — desktop GUI for local LLMs.
llama.cpp ⭐ (108k ⭐) — efficient LLM inference in C++.
vLLM ⭐ (79k ⭐) — high-throughput LLM serving for production.
SGLang 🆕 (27k ⭐) — fast structured-output inference engine.
Text Generation Inference (TGI) — Hugging Face's production server (archived; consider vLLM or SGLang).
Together AI ⭐ — fast inference API for open models.
Groq ⭐ — extremely fast LPU-based inference.
Fireworks AI — production inference platform.
Replicate — run open-source models in the cloud.
Modal — serverless GPU for AI workloads.
RunPod — GPU cloud for AI.
Lambda Cloud — GPU cloud focused on AI.
Cerebras Inference 🆕 — wafer-scale fastest inference.

📊 LLM Ops & Observability

LangSmith ⭐ — debugging, testing, monitoring; default for LangChain shops.
Helicone ⭐ (6k ⭐) — open-source LLM observability.
Langfuse (27k ⭐) — open-source LLM engineering platform; eval + traces.
Phoenix (Arize) — open-source LLM observability in a notebook.
Braintrust ⭐ — eval-first observability for AI products.
Weights & Biases (W&B Weave) — experiment tracking + LLM tracing.
Promptfoo (21k ⭐) — open-source LLM eval framework.
OpenLIT — OpenTelemetry-native LLM observability.
Opik (Comet) 🆕 — open-source LLM eval + tracing.
Inspect AI 🆕 — UK AISI's agent eval framework.

🎯 Fine-Tuning & Training

Axolotl ⭐ (12k ⭐) — easy fine-tuning of LLMs (LoRA, QLoRA, full).
Unsloth ⭐ (64k ⭐) — 2x faster LLM fine-tuning, less memory.
Hugging Face TRL (18k ⭐) — RLHF, DPO, PPO trainers.
LLaMA Factory (71k ⭐) — unified LLM fine-tuning.
Lit-GPT (Lightning AI) — pretrain, fine-tune, serve LLMs.
ColossalAI (41k ⭐) — large-scale training.
veRL (ByteDance) 🆕 — RL training for LLMs.

🛠️ Development Frameworks

Deep Learning Frameworks

PyTorch ⭐ — by Meta; the de facto research framework.
TensorFlow — by Google; production focus.
JAX (36k ⭐) — by Google; functional, GPU/TPU.
Keras 3 — multi-backend high-level API.
MLX (Apple) (26k ⭐) — array framework optimized for Apple Silicon.
MAX / Mojo (Modular) — Python-superset language for AI performance.

Python LLM Libraries

Hugging Face Transformers ⭐ (160k ⭐) — state-of-the-art models.
LangChain (136k ⭐) — LLM application framework.
LlamaIndex (38k ⭐) — LLM data framework.
Pydantic AI — type-safe agent framework.
Instructor ⭐ — structured outputs from LLMs.
LiteLLM ⭐ (46k ⭐) — unified API for 100+ LLMs.
Outlines (14k ⭐) — guided / structured generation.
DSPy ⭐ (34k ⭐) — programming (not prompting) LLMs.
scikit-learn — classic ML in Python.
Ray (42k ⭐) — distributed Python; underlies vLLM and many frameworks.

TypeScript / JavaScript

Vercel AI SDK ⭐ — React/Next.js AI app SDK.
LangChain.js — LangChain for JS.
Mastra 🆕 (24k ⭐) — TS framework for agents, evals, workflows.
TensorFlow.js — browser ML.

Bot SDKs

Anthropic SDK — official Claude SDK.
OpenAI SDK (31k ⭐) — official OpenAI SDK.
Discord.py — Discord bot SDK.
Slack Bolt — Slack app framework.
python-telegram-bot — Telegram bot SDK.
Wechaty 🇨🇳 — WeChat bot framework.

Datasets

Hugging Face Datasets ⭐ — central dataset hub.
Common Crawl — web-scale data.
Kaggle Datasets — competition + reference datasets.
Papers With Code Datasets — benchmark datasets.
The Pile — 800GB dataset for LLMs.
FineWeb (HuggingFace) 🆕 — 15T-token cleaned web dataset.

🎓 Courses & Learning Paths

Foundational ML / AI (Classics — still worth doing)

Machine Learning — Stanford / Andrew Ng — the classic.
Deep Learning Specialization — deeplearning.ai — neural nets, CNNs, RNNs, transformers.
CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks — Stanford — CV gold standard.
CS224N: NLP with Deep Learning — Stanford — NLP foundations.
Practical Deep Learning for Coders — fast.ai / Jeremy Howard — top-down practical.
3Blue1Brown — Neural Networks — visual deep dive.

Modern LLM / Generative AI 🔥

Karpathy's Neural Networks: Zero to Hero ⭐ — build neural nets, GPT, tokenizers from scratch. Best free LLM course.
Hugging Face Agents Course ⭐ — building LLM agents end-to-end.
Hugging Face NLP Course — free, transformer-focused.
Anthropic Courses — official courses on prompting, tool use, RAG, agents.
LangChain Academy — LangChain and LangGraph courses.
LLM Bootcamp (Full Stack DL) — practical LLM app dev.
Generative AI for Everyone — Andrew Ng — non-technical intro.
CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch — Stanford — build a real LLM.

Career-focused Bootcamps

Springboard AI/ML Career Track — US-focused online bootcamp with mentor.
Bloomtech (formerly Lambda School) — US online bootcamp.
Insight Data Science Fellows — fellowship for PhDs entering industry.
Maven AI Engineering Cohorts — cohort-based courses by industry experts.
Zero to Mastery — AI/ML Career Path — online ML bootcamp.
General Assembly Data Science Immersive — full-time bootcamp, multiple cities.
JR Academy AI Engineer Bootcamp — project-based 6-month bootcamp covering MCP, RAG, agents, deployment.
JR Academy Vibe Coding — modern AI-augmented development with Cursor / Claude Code.
JR Academy Web Full-Stack Bootcamp — Next.js / NestJS / AWS project bootcamp.
Recurse Center — self-directed programmer retreat (NYC).

AI Engineer Specialization (Free Learning Hubs)

Self-directed learning paths specifically for the AI Engineer role.

AI Engineer Roadmap (roadmap.sh) — community-curated step-by-step roadmap.
AI Engineer Reading List (Latent Space) — Swyx's annual must-read papers.
Generative AI Handbook (Will Brown) — practical handbook.
Build LLM-Powered Apps (Hamel Husain) — practical writing on LLM eval and ops.
Deep Learning AI — AI Engineering Specialization — Andrew Ng's structured paths.
JR Academy AI Engineer Hub — free chapter-based learning path: MCP, RAG, agents, deployment, with hands-on labs.
JR Academy Prompt Master Hub — free prompt engineering chapter-based hub.
Awesome AI Engineer (community list) — math foundations.

Specialized Topics

Reinforcement Learning Course — David Silver / DeepMind.
CS285: Deep RL — UC Berkeley.
Artificial Intelligence for Robotics — Sebastian Thrun.

Free Aggregators

Made With ML — production ML foundations.
AI Engineer Roadmap — community-curated path.
Awesome MLOps — production ML resources.

📖 Books, Papers & Blogs

Books — Modern (2024-2026) 🔥

AI Engineering — Chip Huyen ⭐ — the definitive book on production LLM apps.
Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) — Sebastian Raschka — pedagogical GPT build.
Hands-On Large Language Models — Jay Alammar & Maarten Grootendorst.
Designing Machine Learning Systems — Chip Huyen — production ML.

Books — Foundations

Deep Learning — Goodfellow, Bengio, Courville — the foundational textbook.
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (2nd ed) — Sutton & Barto.
Hands-On ML with Scikit-Learn, Keras & TensorFlow — Aurélien Géron.
Probabilistic Machine Learning — Kevin Murphy — rigorous reference.
The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book — Andriy Burkov — concise.

Papers — Why Each Matters

Read these to understand the field, in roughly chronological order.

Attention Is All You Need (2017) ⭐ — introduced the Transformer; basis of every modern LLM.
BERT (2018) — bidirectional Transformers; pretraining objective that powered NLP for 4 years.
GPT-3 (2020) — "Language Models are Few-Shot Learners" — proved scaling works; in-context learning.
Scaling Laws (2020) — formalized loss vs compute/params/data; the law that drove GPT-4 sizing.
RAG (2020) — original retrieval-augmented generation paper.
Chain-of-Thought (2022) — "let's think step by step" prompting unlocked reasoning.
InstructGPT / RLHF (2022) — RLHF made models follow instructions; basis of ChatGPT.
Chinchilla (2022) — corrected scaling laws; train smaller on more tokens.
LLaMA (2023) — Meta's open-weights move that birthed the open ecosystem.
ReAct (2022) — Reasoning + Acting prompt template; basis of modern agents.
Toolformer (2023) — LLMs that learn to use tools; precursor to function calling.
LoRA (2021) — low-rank adaptation; how everyone fine-tunes affordably.
Direct Preference Optimization (2023) — DPO; simpler RLHF replacement.
Mixtral of Experts (2024) — practical MoE that opened the era of efficient large models.
DeepSeek-R1 (2025) 🇨🇳 — pure-RL reasoning training breakthrough.

Blogs — Top Signal

Lilian Weng's Blog (Lil'Log) ⭐ — deep technical writing, every post a survey.
Karpathy's Blog ⭐ — Andrej Karpathy's writing; legendary clarity.
Sebastian Raschka's Magazine — practical LLM and ML.
Simon Willison's Blog — daily AI tools and tips, unmatched volume.
Anthropic Research — Claude/safety research.
OpenAI Research — papers and announcements.
Google Research Blog — Google AI research.
Hugging Face Blog — open-source AI updates.
One Useful Thing (Ethan Mollick) — practical AI essays for non-engineers.

🏢 Companies & Research Labs

Foundation Model Labs

Anthropic — Claude; AI safety research.
OpenAI — GPT, ChatGPT, Sora, Codex.
Google DeepMind — Gemini, AlphaFold, research.
Meta AI (FAIR) — Llama, PyTorch.
Mistral AI — open-source / commercial models from France.
xAI — Grok.
Cohere — enterprise LLMs.
AI21 Labs — Jamba and enterprise AI.
Stability AI — Stable Diffusion.
Black Forest Labs — Flux image models.
Reka AI — multimodal frontier models.
DeepSeek 🇨🇳 — Chinese open-source frontier models.
Alibaba Qwen Team 🇨🇳 — Qwen series.
Moonshot AI 🇨🇳 — Kimi K2.
Zhipu AI 🇨🇳 — GLM series.

AI Infrastructure & Platforms

Hugging Face — model hub, datasets, training.
Replicate — run open-source models in the cloud.
Together AI — fast open-model inference.
Groq — extreme-speed LPU inference.
Cerebras — wafer-scale chip inference.
Modal — serverless GPU.
Anyscale — Ray-based distributed AI.
Databricks — data + AI platform.
Snowflake Cortex — AI in the data warehouse.
Lightning AI — Lightning Studios for ML.

Enterprise / Vertical AI

Glean — enterprise AI search.
Harvey AI — legal AI.
Cresta — contact center AI.
Sierra — customer service agents.
Decagon — AI customer support agents.
Cursor (Anysphere) — AI coding company.
Cognition — Devin SWE agent.
Scale AI — data labeling and infrastructure.
DataRobot — enterprise ML platform.

AI Consulting & Implementation

Slalom AI Practice — global consulting with AI practice.
Boston Consulting Group X (BCG X) — BCG's AI/digital build arm.
Accenture AI — large-scale AI transformation.
Thoughtworks AI — engineering-led AI delivery.
Modulai — boutique AI consultancy (EU).
MetaTree Lab — AI consulting; LLM strategy, RAG and agent implementation, custom training.

🧠 Personal AI Tools

General Assistants

Claude ⭐ — Anthropic's assistant; long context, careful reasoning.
ChatGPT ⭐ — OpenAI's general-purpose assistant.
Google Gemini — Google's assistant; native in Workspace.
Perplexity ⭐ — AI search; best for research questions.
Grok — xAI's assistant with X integration.
You.com — AI search and chat.
Pi (Inflection) — empathetic personal AI.

Productivity AI

Notion AI — built into Notion docs.
Granola ⭐ — AI meeting notes; current favorite.
Otter.ai — meeting transcription veteran.
Reclaim.ai — calendar AI scheduling.
Motion — AI task and calendar planner.
Mem — AI-organized note-taking.
Sunsama — daily planner with AI.
Clay — AI-powered CRM and outreach.

Virtual Office & Remote Collaboration

Gather — virtual office in 2D pixel-art world.
Teamflow — virtual HQ for remote teams.
Mmhmm — AI presentation and async video.
MetaTown — virtual office and meeting environment with AI agents.
Around — AI-enhanced video calls (compact tiles).

AI Search

Perplexity ⭐ — research-grade AI search.
Phind — AI search for developers.
Exa — search engine designed for AI/LLMs.
Tavily — search API for agents.
Linkup 🆕 — AI-grade search API.

🎨 Specialized AI Tools

Image Generation & Design

Midjourney ⭐ — high-quality image generation.
DALL·E (OpenAI) — image generation in ChatGPT.
Stable Diffusion (local) — open-source image gen.
Flux 1.1 Pro / Kontext ⭐ — best-in-class open image gen + editing.
Recraft V3 🆕 — design-grade image generation.
Ideogram 2.0 — image generation with great text rendering.
Leonardo.AI 🇦🇺 — Sydney-based image generation.
Krea — real-time AI canvas.
Canva Magic Studio — AI design tools.
Figma AI / Make — AI in Figma.
Photoshop Firefly — Adobe's generative fill.

Video & Audio

Sora 2 (OpenAI) ⭐ 🆕 — text-to-video; current state-of-the-art.
Veo 3 (Google) ⭐ — video gen with native audio.
Runway Gen-4 — AI video generation and editing.
Pika 2.0 — text-to-video.
Hailuo 02 (MiniMax) 🇨🇳 — strong video gen.
Kling AI 🇨🇳 — Kuaishou's video gen.
HeyGen — AI avatars and translation.
Synthesia — AI video for enterprise.
Descript — edit audio/video like a doc.
SummaryTube — AI summaries, key moments, and transcripts for YouTube videos.
ElevenLabs ⭐ — voice cloning and synthesis.
Cartesia Sonic 🆕 — sub-100ms voice for real-time agents.
Hume EVI — emotion-aware voice AI.
Suno v4 — music generation.
Udio — music generation.

Writing & Content

Jasper AI — AI writer for marketing teams.
Writesonic — SEO content generator.
Copy.ai — AI marketing copy.
Grammarly — AI writing assistant.
Sudowrite — AI for fiction writers.
Lex — AI writing app for thinkers.

Health / Medical

Ada Health — symptom assessment.
Abridge ⭐ — clinical documentation AI; widely deployed in US health systems.
Suki AI — voice-enabled clinical AI.

Finance

Bloomberg GPT — finance-specific LLM.
Hebbia — AI for financial analysts.

Legal

Harvey AI — legal AI.
Spellbook — contract review AI.

Travel

Mindtrip — AI travel planning.
Layla — travel AI assistant.

Education

Khan Academy Khanmigo ⭐ — AI tutor for students.
CodeKidz — AI-powered programming learning for kids.

Career & Resume

Teal — AI resume builder + job tracker.
Rezi — AI resume builder optimized for ATS.
ResumeWorded — AI resume + LinkedIn profile feedback.
Kickresume — AI resume and cover letter builder.
JobPin AI — AI resume editing, ATS optimization, and job matching.
Final Round AI — AI interview copilot.

📰 News, Newsletters & Podcasts

Newsletters

The Batch (deeplearning.ai) ⭐ — Andrew Ng's weekly newsletter.
Latent Space ⭐ — Swyx's AI engineering practitioner newsletter.
Import AI (Jack Clark) ⭐ — AI policy and research.
The Sequence — research summaries.
Last Week in AI — weekly AI news.
TLDR AI — daily AI news in 5 minutes.
Ben's Bites — daily AI news for non-technical readers.
One Useful Thing (Ethan Mollick) — practical AI essays.
Interconnects (Nathan Lambert) — open-source AI commentary.

Podcasts

Latent Space Podcast ⭐ — AI engineering deep dives.
Dwarkesh Podcast ⭐ — AI researchers and founders.
The Lex Fridman Podcast — long-form AI/tech conversations.
No Priors — Sarah Guo & Elad Gil on AI.
The TWIML AI Podcast — This Week in ML & AI.
Practical AI — applied AI for engineers.
Machine Learning Street Talk — academic ML discussions.

News Sites

Hacker News — community AI discussion.
ArXiv (cs.CL / cs.AI) — preprints.
Papers with Code — papers + implementations.
The Information AI — paid; insider news.
Semianalysis — AI hardware and infrastructure analysis.

🎤 Events & Conferences

NeurIPS — premier ML research conference.
ICML — International Conference on Machine Learning.
ICLR — Learning Representations.
CVPR — Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.
ACL — Computational Linguistics.
The AI Engineer Summit / World's Fair ⭐ — practitioner conference (SF/NYC).
Anthropic Builder Summit — Anthropic developer events.
OpenAI DevDay — OpenAI developer event.
Hugging Face Events — community events.
Build Club Sydney 🇦🇺 — AU AI builders.

💼 AI Jobs

Moai Jobs — top AI company jobs.
AI Jobster — remote AI jobs.
Hugging Face Jobs — open-source AI roles.
LinkedIn AI Engineer search — global AI jobs.
WhoIsHiring (HN) — Hacker News hiring threads.
Cracked Engineers — hand-picked tech jobs.
Built In — US tech jobs by city.
levels.fyi — comp benchmarking.
For region-specific jobs, see 🌍 AI Scene by Country.

🌐 AI Communities by City

San Francisco AI Meetup — SF community.
New York AI — NYC community.
Seattle AI — Seattle community.
London AI — London community.
Amsterdam AI — Amsterdam community.
Hong Kong AI — HK community.

For Sydney, Melbourne, Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, KL — see 🌍 AI Scene by Country.

🌍 AI Scene by Country

Country-specific resources — universities, companies, bootcamps, hiring, visa info, and communities. Contributions from people on the ground welcome — please open a PR for your country.

🇺🇸 USA

Universities & Research

Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) — academic AI research.
MIT CSAIL — Computer Science and AI Lab.
Carnegie Mellon LTI / MLD — Language Technologies / ML departments.
UC Berkeley BAIR — Berkeley AI Research.
Princeton NLP — academic groups.

Bootcamps & Career Programs

Springboard AI/ML Career Track — online AI bootcamp.
Bloomtech — online tech bootcamp.
Insight Data Science Fellows — fellowship for PhDs entering industry.
Recurse Center — self-directed programmer retreat (NYC).
Anthropic Fellowship — Anthropic's research fellowship.

Hiring & Comp

levels.fyi — comp data for US tech roles.
Built In — US tech jobs by city.

🇨🇳 China

大学与研究院

清华大学 THUNLP / AI Institute — 清华 AI / NLP 研究.
北京大学 — 王选计算机研究所 — 北大 AI 研究.
上海交大 — 人工智能研究院 — 上交 AI 研究.
北京智源人工智能研究院 (BAAI) — 智源研究院.
上海人工智能实验室 (Shanghai AI Lab) — 公共大模型研究.
香港中文大学 MMLab — 港中文多媒体实验室.

公司 & 大模型

DeepSeek ⭐ — 深度求索, 开源前沿大模型.
通义千问 Qwen (Alibaba) ⭐ — 阿里通义.
Moonshot AI Kimi ⭐ — 月之暗面 Kimi K2.
豆包 (ByteDance) — 字节豆包.
智谱 AI ChatGLM — 清华系大模型.
MiniMax abab — MiniMax.
百度文心 ERNIE — 文心一言.
腾讯混元 — 混元大模型.
百川智能 Baichuan — 百川大模型.
01.AI Yi — 零一万物 Yi 系列.

学习平台 & 资讯

极客时间 — 程序员付费课程.
慕课网 / 网易云课堂 — 综合在线课程.
量子位 (QbitAI) — AI 资讯媒体.
机器之心 (Synced) — AI 研究资讯.
PaperWeekly — 论文阅读社区.
Datawhale — 开源 AI 学习社区.

🇦🇺 Australia

Universities & Education

University of Sydney — AI & ML — academic programs.
UNSW AI Institute — research-led AI education.
University of Melbourne — AI — academic programs.
Monash University — Data Science & AI — academic programs.
JR Academy — project-based AI engineering bootcamp; global cohorts with HQ in Australia.

Hiring

Atlassian Careers — Sydney-based, hiring AI engineers.
Canva Engineering — Sydney-based, AI/ML roles.
Australian Government Digital Transformation Agency — public sector AI.
Build Club AI — Sydney AI builders community + jobs.
JobPin AI — AI-powered resume editing, ATS optimization, and job matching.
JR Academy Career Coaching — AI Engineer career coaching and placement.

Visa Pathways for AI Engineers

482 TSS — employer-sponsored temporary skilled visa.
186 ENS — employer-sponsored permanent residency.
189 Skilled Independent — points-tested PR; tech occupations on MLTSSL.
Global Talent Visa (GTI / Subclass 858) — for high-achieving AI specialists.

Companies & Labs

Canva — Sydney; Magic Design, AI image gen.
Atlassian — Sydney; Atlassian Intelligence.
Culture Amp — Melbourne; HR AI.
Cochlear — Sydney; medical AI.
SafetyCulture — Sydney/Townsville; AI for inspections.
Harrison.ai — Sydney; medical AI.
Leonardo.AI — Sydney; image generation.
Relevance AI — Sydney; agent platform.

Meetups & Communities

Build Club Sydney — community of AI builders.
Chinese AI Association (Sydney) — AU 华人 AI 社区.
AI Sydney Meetup — regular events.
AI Melbourne Meetup — regular events.

🇲🇾 Malaysia

Universities

University of Malaya (UM) — flagship public university.
Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) — School of Computer Sciences.
Multimedia University (MMU) — Cyberjaya tech university.
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) — engineering & AI research.
Asia Pacific University (APU) — data science & AI programs.

Companies & Hiring (KL / Cyberjaya)

Grab — Southeast Asia super-app; ML roles in KL.
Carsome — used-car platform with AI pricing.
Aerodyne — drone AI; HQ Cyberjaya.
iPay88 — fintech with AI applications.
Hiredly — Malaysia tech jobs platform.

Communities

AI Malaysia Meetup — local meetups.
Google Developer Groups KL — including AI/ML events.
PyData KL — Python + data community.

🇸🇬 Singapore