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
AI Snake Oil (Narayanan & Kapoor)
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Evaluation-skeptic analysis with academic grounding
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ChinAI (Jeff Ding)
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Translations of Chinese AI discourse
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Don't Worry About the Vase (Zvi)
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Exhaustive weekly synthesis of AI developments
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Dwarkesh Podcast
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Long-form primary interviews with frontier figures
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Import AI (Jack Clark)
Active · verified 2026-06-14
The longest-running serious AI policy/technical newsletter
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Interconnects (Nathan Lambert)
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Open-model and post-training analysis
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International AI Safety Report
Active; periodic · verified 2026-06-14
Bengio-chaired intergovernmental scientific assessment
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Jiqizhixin (机器之心)
Active · verified 2026-06-14
China's leading AI media outlet
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Latent Space
Active · verified 2026-06-14
AI engineering podcast/newsletter; defined the AI-engineer role
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Machine Learning Street Talk
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Technical long-form research interviews
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MIT Technology Review (AI desk)
Active · verified 2026-06-14
The legacy outlet with the strongest AI bench
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QbitAI (量子位)
Active · verified 2026-06-14
CN AI industry news
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SemiAnalysis
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Compute supply-chain and datacenter analysis
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Stanford AI Index
Active; annual · verified 2026-06-14
The reference annual dataset on AI progress and policy
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State of AI Report
Active; annual · verified 2026-06-14
Annual field synthesis (Benaich)
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The Batch
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Accessible weekly AI news (DeepLearning.AI)
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Transformer (Shakeel Hashim)
Active · verified 2026-06-14
AI policy journalism
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Communities
Alignment Forum
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Technical alignment research discussion
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EleutherAI Discord
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Open-source research collective's home
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LessWrong
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Rationalist forum where alignment discourse developed
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r/MachineLearning + r/LocalLLaMA
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Research and local-model practitioner communities
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Consumer & Assistants
Character.AI
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Companion-AI at scale; the test case for AI-relationship governance
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ChatGPT
Active · verified 2026-06-14
The product that made LLMs a mass medium
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Claude (claude.ai / Claude Code)
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Anthropic's assistant; Claude Code defined agentic coding
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Doubao
Active · verified 2026-06-14
ByteDance's assistant; China's largest by users
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Gemini (app)
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Google's assistant across Android/Workspace
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Kimi
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Moonshot's consumer assistant (CN)
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Microsoft Copilot
Active · verified 2026-06-14
AI layer across Windows/Office/GitHub
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NotebookLM
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Source-grounded research assistant; audio overviews
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Perplexity
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Answer-engine challenger to search
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Education
3Blue1Brown
Active · verified 2026-06-14
The visual neural-network explainers
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Coursera
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Distribution layer of ML MOOCs since the original Ng course
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d2l.ai
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Dive into Deep Learning interactive book; bilingual EN/CN
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DeepLearning.AI
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Ng's course ecosystem; The Batch newsletter
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fast.ai
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Top-down practical deep learning curriculum
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Hugging Face Learn
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Free courses on transformers, RL, agents
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Khan Academy (Khanmigo)
Active · verified 2026-06-14
AI tutoring at school scale
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Open university AI/ML courses
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Stanford CS231n / CS224n materials
Active · verified 2026-06-14
The canonical open vision and NLP course materials
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XuetangX / icourse163
Active · verified 2026-06-14
China's MOOC platforms; required-readings signal for CN canon
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Evaluation & Leaderboards
AI Safety/capability evals (Inspect, UK AISI)
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Open-source evaluation framework from a state body
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ARC Prize
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Chollet's abstraction-and-reasoning challenge
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Artificial Analysis
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Independent price/performance/latency benchmarking of model APIs
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Epoch AI (data hub)
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Compute, training-run, and benchmark databases
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HELM (Stanford CRFM)
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Holistic, transparent LM evaluation suite
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LiveBench
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Contamination-resistant rolling benchmark
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LMArena (Chatbot Arena)
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Human-preference ELO for chat models; the de facto public scoreboard
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MLPerf (MLCommons)
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Industry-standard hardware/training benchmarks
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SWE-bench
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Real-repository software-engineering benchmark
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Frameworks & Tools
CUDA
Active · verified 2026-06-14
The moat under NVIDIA; the GPU programming layer
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Google Colab
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Free GPU notebooks; the global on-ramp
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JAX
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Composable accelerator-native ML (Google)
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Jupyter
Active · verified 2026-06-14
The notebook substrate of applied ML
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LangChain / LangGraph
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Agent orchestration ecosystem
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llama.cpp
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Local inference engine behind the consumer open-model wave
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MLflow
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Experiment tracking and model registry (Databricks)
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Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Active; industry-adopted · verified 2026-06-14
Anthropic-originated open standard for tool/context connectivity
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PyTorch
Active · verified 2026-06-14
The research-default deep learning framework (Linux Foundation)
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scikit-learn
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Classical ML standard library
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TensorFlow / Keras
Active; declining research share · verified 2026-06-14
The first mass DL framework; Keras 3 multi-backend
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vLLM
Active · verified 2026-06-14
The open inference-serving standard
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Models, Code & Data
Civitai
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Community hub for image-generation models
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Common Crawl
Active · verified 2026-06-14
The web corpus under most LLM pretraining
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GitHub
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Where the AI tooling ecosystem lives; Copilot origin
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Hugging Face Hub
Active · verified 2026-06-14
The registry of open models, datasets, and spaces
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Kaggle
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Competitions, datasets, notebooks; ML on-ramp
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LAION
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Open image-text datasets behind the diffusion era
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ModelScope
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Alibaba's open-model hub; the CN mirror of HF
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Ollama
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Local LLM running standard
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OpenML
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Open platform for sharing datasets and ML experiments
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Replicate
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Run open models via API
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UCI ML Repository
Active · verified 2026-06-14
The classical benchmark dataset archive
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Policy & Accountability
AI Incident Database
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Structured registry of AI harms
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AI Standards Hub (UK)
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Tracker of AI standards landscape (Turing Institute)
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AIAAIC Repository
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Independent log of AI incidents and controversies
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EU AI Act Explorer (artificialintelligenceact.eu)
Active · verified 2026-06-14
The reference navigation layer for the Act (FLI)
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Foundation Model Transparency Index
Active; periodic · verified 2026-06-14
Stanford's periodic transparency scoring of major developers
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IAPP AI Governance Center
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Profession-building for AI governance roles (AIGP)
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NIST AIRC
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Resource center around the AI RMF
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OECD.AI Policy Observatory
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Global database of national AI policies
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Research Infrastructure
alphaXiv
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Discussion and AI-assisted reading layer over arXiv
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arXiv
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Preprint server where the field actually publishes
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CNKI
Active; access-restricted · verified 2026-06-14
China's dominant academic database; licensed access only
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Connected Papers
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Visual citation-graph exploration
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Google Scholar
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Default citation lookup, including CN-language coverage
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OpenAlex
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Open bibliographic database and API; the citation substrate
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OpenReview
Active · verified 2026-06-14
Open peer review for ICLR/NeurIPS and others
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Papers with Code
Sunset by Meta mid-2025; archives partly absorbed by Hugging Face, verify current state · verified 2026-06-14
Linked papers, code, and SOTA tables
Semantic Scholar
Active · verified 2026-06-14
AI-powered literature search and citation graph (Ai2)
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Zenodo
Active · verified 2026-06-14
DOI-issuing open repository (used for MCS line)
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