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.

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

Contents

1. 🤖 Foundation Models & APIs
2. 💻 AI Coding Tools
3. 🤝 Agent Frameworks & MCP
4. 📚 RAG & Vector Databases
5. ⚡ LLM Inference & Hosting
6. 📊 LLM Ops & Observability
7. 🎯 Fine-Tuning & Training
8. 🛠️ Development Frameworks
9. 🎓 Courses & Learning Paths
10. 📖 Books, Papers & Blogs
11. 🏢 Companies & Research Labs
12. 🧠 Personal AI Tools
13. 🎨 Specialized AI Tools — Image, Video, Audio, Writing, Health, Finance
14. 📰 News, Newsletters & Podcasts
15. 🎤 Events & Conferences
16. 💼 AI Jobs
17. 🌐 AI Communities by City
18. 🌍 AI Scene by Country — USA, China, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore
19. 🤖 Robotics & Embodied AI
20. 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

Universities & Research

• National University of Singapore (NUS) — top SEA CS school.
• Nanyang Technological University (NTU) — AI / ML labs.
• Singapore Management University (SMU) — applied AI.
• A*STAR I²R — government AI research.

Government & Initiatives

• AI Singapore ⭐ — national AI program (AI Apprenticeship, Trailblazer).
• SGTech — Singapore tech industry association.

Companies & Hiring

• Sea / Shopee / Garena — Sea Group, large AI/ML team.
• Grab AI Center — Singapore HQ.
• GovTech Singapore — public-sector AI.
• Tech in Asia Jobs — SEA tech jobs.

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🤖 Robotics & Embodied AI

• Boston Dynamics — Atlas, Spot.
• Figure AI 🔥 — humanoid robots; Figure 02.
• 1X Technologies — Neo home humanoid.
• Tesla Optimus — humanoid robot.
• Physical Intelligence (Pi) 🆕 — robotics foundation models.
• Skild AI 🆕 — general-purpose robotics intelligence.
• Sanctuary AI Phoenix — humanoid robot.
• DJI — drones.
• Aerodyne 🇲🇾 — drone AI; Malaysia.
• iRobot — Roomba.

Robotics frameworks

• LeRobot (Hugging Face) 🆕 (24k ⭐) — open-source robotics learning.
• ROS 2 — Robot Operating System.
• NVIDIA Isaac — robotics platform.

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