AI Links
A curated collection of resources to explore AI further. Updated 12/2025.
Chat with AI Models
Closed Models / Major Labs
- ChatGPT · OpenAI, GPT-5.2 & Co
- Claude · Anthropic: Haiku / Sonnet / Opus 4.5
- Gemini · Google, multimodal, also via AI Studio
- Grok · xAI, real-time X data
- Le Chat · Mistral, European
Open Weights
Chinese Models
- DeepSeek R1/V3 · DeepSeek
- Kimi K2 · Moonshot AI
- MiniMax M2 · MiniMax
- Qwen 3 · Alibaba
- GLM 4.7 · Z.ai/Zhipu AI
Truly Open Source
- Apertus · ETH AI Center (Switzerland)
- Nemotron 3 · Nvidia · nearly open source
- Olmo · Ai2 (The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
Multi-Model & Inference Provider
- Chutes · inference provider
- HuggingChat · open models, free
- OpenRouter · multi-provider gateway, plus leaderboard, many free models
- Replicate · model access via API
Model Comparison
- Artificial Analysis · consolidated benchmark
- LayerLens - long model list & filter options
- LMArena · models compete, benchmarks, chat / image / video
Image Generation
- Flux · Black Forest Labs (Germany), open weights
- Midjourney · artistic flair, rich textures, started via Discord bot
- Nano Banana Pro · part of Google Gemini · infographics, promt following
- OpenAI Image Generation ex DALL-E, part of ChatGPT
- Stable Diffusion via HuggingFace · open weights, multiple versions
X Accounts, High Signal
Find this list here: x.com/i/lists/2001384322264359010
- Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau · @jm_alexia · senior AI researcher, Samsung
- Andreas Stöffelbauer · @AStoeffelbauer · London School of Economics (LSE)
- Ara · @arafatkatze · Cline
- Arthur Conmy · @ArthurConmy · DeepMind
- Brendan Bycroft · @BrendanBycroft · LLM viz creator
- Cameron R. Wolfe, Ph.D. · @cwolferesearch · research at Netflix, writer
- Chenfei Wu · @wu_chenfei · building Qwen's imagery
- Dex · @dexhorthy · building hlyr.dev/code
- Dylan Patel · @dylan522p · SemiAnalysis, consultant
- Ekdeep Singh Lubana · @EkdeepL · GoodfireAI
- EleutherAI · @AiEleuther · non-profit AI research lab, interpretability
- Florian S · @airesearch12 · AI professional, Germany based
- fofr · @fofrAI · image gen, Google DeepMind
- Georgi Gerganov · @ggerganov · llama.ccp
- Henry · @arithmoquine
- Janbam · @janbamjan
- Jesse Vig · @jesse_vig · AI research, visualization
- Jonathan Whitaker · @johnowhitaker · R&D at answer.ai
- Julian Schrittwieser · @Mononofu · Blog · Anthropic, ex-DeepMind
- Levelsio · @levelsio · indie hacker, AI products
- Lukas Valine · @lukasvaline · ML research, transformer visualizations
- Max Woolf · @minimaxir · data science, AI content
- Michael Bargury · @mbrg0 · breaking AI agents, building Zenity
- Mitko Vasilev · @iotcoi · local AI, privacy
- Nathan Lambert · @natolambert · Interconnects · RLHF book, open models
- Paul Calcraft · @paul_cal · AI safety, ML methods
- Peter Wang · @pwang · Anaconda, PyScript
- Pliny the Liberator · @elder_plinius · security researcher / jail breaker
- Puja Abbassi · @puja108 · cloud native, CNCF
- Santiago · @svpino · ML engineering education
- Santiago Ortiz · @moebio · data visualization
- Saoud Rizwan · @sdrzn · Cline founder
- Sebastian Raschka · @rasbt · Blog · LLM internals, PyTorch
- Simon Willison · @simonw · Blog · AI tooling, LLM apps
- Stacy · @voidshapes · research fellow at Anthropic
- Wei-Lin Chiang · @infwinston · LMArena
- Will Brown · @willccbb · Prime Intellect
- Xeophon · @xeophon · PhD student (Germany), open models at Interconnects
Podcasts
- 80,000 Hours · AI safety, careers
- AI & I · Dan Shipper, AI conversations
- Big Technology Podcast · Alex Kantrowitz, tech industry
- Die KI Kantine · German, accessible
- Dwarkesh Patel · deep interviews, researchers
- How I AI · practical AI workflows
- Interconnects · Nathan Lambert, RLHF
- Latent Space · AI engineering
- Lenny's Podcast · product, growth
- Lex Fridman · long-form, scientists
- Matt Turck · VC, data landscape
- Quanta Magazine · science, math
- TBPN · AI business news
- The Next Wave · Matt Wolfe, AI trends
- VS Code Insiders · dev tools, Copilot
YouTube Channels
- Andrej Kaparthy · GPTs, legendary explainer
- 3Blue1Brown · visual math, neural nets
- AI Engineer · engineering
- Two Minute Papers · research summaries
- Yannic Kilcher · paper explanations
Further Studies
Foundational Papers
- AlexNet: ImageNet Classification (2012) · started the deep learning revolution
- Word2Vec (2013) · word embeddings, semantic representations
- Generative Adversarial Networks (2014) · GANs, generative modeling breakthrough
- ResNet: Deep Residual Learning (2015) · residual connections, very deep networks
- Attention Is All You Need (2017) · Transformer architecture, foundation of LLMs
- BERT (2018) · bidirectional pre-training, revolutionized NLP
- Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models (2020) · predictable scaling behavior
- GPT-3: Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (2020) · in-context learning
- Constitutional AI (2022) · RLAIF, AI alignment approach
- DeepSeek-R1 (2025) · reasoning via RL, open weights milestone
Courses
- Andrew Ng ML Specialization · ML fundamentals
- Andrew Ng Deep Learning · neural networks
- fast.ai · practical deep learning
- Hugging Face NLP Course · transformers, NLP
- Stanford CS229 · machine learning theory