AI Snake Oil (Narayanan & Kapoor)
Evaluation-skeptic analysis with academic grounding
These are context entities: described, never ranked. They carry no score, by construction. Listed alphabetically within each category, with a last-verified date where known.
Analysis & Media
ChinAI (Jeff Ding)
Translations of Chinese AI discourse
Don't Worry About the Vase (Zvi)
Exhaustive weekly synthesis of AI developments
Dwarkesh Podcast
Long-form primary interviews with frontier figures
Import AI (Jack Clark)
The longest-running serious AI policy/technical newsletter
Interconnects (Nathan Lambert)
Open-model and post-training analysis
International AI Safety Report
Bengio-chaired intergovernmental scientific assessment
Jiqizhixin (机器之心)
China's leading AI media outlet
Latent Space
AI engineering podcast/newsletter; defined the AI-engineer role
Machine Learning Street Talk
Technical long-form research interviews
MIT Technology Review (AI desk)
The legacy outlet with the strongest AI bench
QbitAI (量子位)
CN AI industry news
SemiAnalysis
Compute supply-chain and datacenter analysis
Stanford AI Index
The reference annual dataset on AI progress and policy
State of AI Report
Annual field synthesis (Benaich)
The Batch
Accessible weekly AI news (DeepLearning.AI)
Transformer (Shakeel Hashim)
AI policy journalism
Communities
Alignment Forum
Technical alignment research discussion
EleutherAI Discord
Open-source research collective's home
LessWrong
Rationalist forum where alignment discourse developed
r/MachineLearning + r/LocalLLaMA
Research and local-model practitioner communities
Consumer & Assistants
Character.AI
Companion-AI at scale; the test case for AI-relationship governance
ChatGPT
The product that made LLMs a mass medium
Claude (claude.ai / Claude Code)
Anthropic's assistant; Claude Code defined agentic coding
Doubao
ByteDance's assistant; China's largest by users
Gemini (app)
Google's assistant across Android/Workspace
Kimi
Moonshot's consumer assistant (CN)
Microsoft Copilot
AI layer across Windows/Office/GitHub
NotebookLM
Source-grounded research assistant; audio overviews
Perplexity
Answer-engine challenger to search
Education
3Blue1Brown
The visual neural-network explainers
Coursera
Distribution layer of ML MOOCs since the original Ng course
d2l.ai
Dive into Deep Learning interactive book; bilingual EN/CN
DeepLearning.AI
Ng's course ecosystem; The Batch newsletter
fast.ai
Top-down practical deep learning curriculum
Hugging Face Learn
Free courses on transformers, RL, agents
Khan Academy (Khanmigo)
AI tutoring at school scale
MIT OpenCourseWare
Open university AI/ML courses
Stanford CS231n / CS224n materials
The canonical open vision and NLP course materials
XuetangX / icourse163
China's MOOC platforms; required-readings signal for CN canon
Evaluation & Leaderboards
AI Safety/capability evals (Inspect, UK AISI)
Open-source evaluation framework from a state body
ARC Prize
Chollet's abstraction-and-reasoning challenge
Artificial Analysis
Independent price/performance/latency benchmarking of model APIs
Epoch AI (data hub)
Compute, training-run, and benchmark databases
HELM (Stanford CRFM)
Holistic, transparent LM evaluation suite
LiveBench
Contamination-resistant rolling benchmark
LMArena (Chatbot Arena)
Human-preference ELO for chat models; the de facto public scoreboard
MLPerf (MLCommons)
Industry-standard hardware/training benchmarks
SWE-bench
Real-repository software-engineering benchmark
Frameworks & Tools
CUDA
The moat under NVIDIA; the GPU programming layer
Google Colab
Free GPU notebooks; the global on-ramp
JAX
Composable accelerator-native ML (Google)
Jupyter
The notebook substrate of applied ML
LangChain / LangGraph
Agent orchestration ecosystem
llama.cpp
Local inference engine behind the consumer open-model wave
MLflow
Experiment tracking and model registry (Databricks)
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Anthropic-originated open standard for tool/context connectivity
PyTorch
The research-default deep learning framework (Linux Foundation)
scikit-learn
Classical ML standard library
TensorFlow / Keras
The first mass DL framework; Keras 3 multi-backend
vLLM
The open inference-serving standard
Models, Code & Data
Civitai
Community hub for image-generation models
Common Crawl
The web corpus under most LLM pretraining
GitHub
Where the AI tooling ecosystem lives; Copilot origin
Hugging Face Hub
The registry of open models, datasets, and spaces
Kaggle
Competitions, datasets, notebooks; ML on-ramp
LAION
Open image-text datasets behind the diffusion era
ModelScope
Alibaba's open-model hub; the CN mirror of HF
Ollama
Local LLM running standard
OpenML
Open platform for sharing datasets and ML experiments
Replicate
Run open models via API
UCI ML Repository
The classical benchmark dataset archive
Policy & Accountability
AI Incident Database
Structured registry of AI harms
AI Standards Hub (UK)
Tracker of AI standards landscape (Turing Institute)
AIAAIC Repository
Independent log of AI incidents and controversies
EU AI Act Explorer (artificialintelligenceact.eu)
The reference navigation layer for the Act (FLI)
Foundation Model Transparency Index
Stanford's periodic transparency scoring of major developers
IAPP AI Governance Center
Profession-building for AI governance roles (AIGP)
NIST AIRC
Resource center around the AI RMF
OECD.AI Policy Observatory
Global database of national AI policies
Research Infrastructure
alphaXiv
Discussion and AI-assisted reading layer over arXiv
arXiv
Preprint server where the field actually publishes
CNKI
China's dominant academic database; licensed access only
Connected Papers
Visual citation-graph exploration
Google Scholar
Default citation lookup, including CN-language coverage
OpenAlex
Open bibliographic database and API; the citation substrate
OpenReview
Open peer review for ICLR/NeurIPS and others
Papers with Code
Linked papers, code, and SOTA tables
Semantic Scholar
AI-powered literature search and citation graph (Ai2)
Zenodo
DOI-issuing open repository (used for MCS line)