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An open-source AI tools directory with clear use cases, visible source freshness, and maintenance evidence for anyone deciding what to try.

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Rankings use public ecosystem signals. Treat them as a starting point, then confirm license, setup, safety, and fit with the upstream project.

AI Authors

19 thought leaders, researchers, and content creators.

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Andrej Karpathy

Tier 1

Former Tesla AI Director & OpenAI founding member. Deep learning educator.

@karpathyGitHubYouTube
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Andrew Ng

Tier 1

Founder of DeepLearning.AI & Coursera. Pioneer of modern AI education.

@AndrewYNg
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Chip Huyen

Tier 1

Author of Designing Machine Learning Systems. MLOps thought leader.

@chiphuyenGitHub10 articles
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Lilian Weng

Tier 1

Head of Safety Systems at OpenAI. Deep technical blog posts on AI research.

@lilianweng32 articles
SR

Sebastian Raschka

Tier 1

ML researcher & author. Ahead of AI newsletter on LLM research.

@rasaborschGitHub26 articles
SW

Simon Willison

Tier 1

Creator of Datasette. Prolific writer on LLMs and practical AI tools.

@simonwGitHub161 articles
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Yann LeCun

Tier 1

Turing Award winner. VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta.

@ylecun
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AI Jason

Tier 2

AI tutorials and tool reviews on YouTube.

YouTube
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Anthropic Blog

Tier 2

Official Anthropic research and product announcements.

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Fireship

Tier 2

Fast-paced tech explainer. 100 seconds of code format.

YouTube
HF

Hugging Face Blog

Tier 2

Open-source AI community hub. Model releases and tutorials.

88 articles
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Latent Space (swyx)

Tier 2

AI engineering podcast & newsletter by swyx & Alessio.

@swyx73 articles
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Matt Wolfe

Tier 2

AI tools news and reviews. Future Tools curator.

YouTube
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OpenAI Blog

Tier 2

Official OpenAI research and product announcements.

113 articles
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Theo (t3.gg)

Tier 2

Full-stack developer & content creator. T3 stack advocate.

@t3dotggYouTube
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MarkTechPost

Tier 3

AI research news and paper summaries.

90 articles
TA

TechCrunch AI

Tier 3

AI coverage from TechCrunch.

176 articles
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The Verge AI

Tier 3

AI coverage from The Verge.

100 articles
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TLDR AI

Tier 3

Daily AI newsletter. Quick summaries of AI news and research.