Learn more about AI

Reports, newsletters and video channels I trust

A short, checked list of places to learn about AI: data and reports, newsletters, YouTube channels and free courses, for beginners and beyond.

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You do not need to follow everything. Pick one newsletter and one video channel, and read the big reports once a year. That is enough to keep up.

Data and yearly reports

The numbers behind the news: how fast AI is improving, what it costs, who invests.

  • Stanford AI Index One big report each spring on the state of AI: research, cost, jobs, investment and policy.
  • Epoch AI Data and charts on the computing power, data and money that go into AI models.
  • Our World in Data: AI Clear, free charts on AI over the long run. Good for class.

Newsletters

A few minutes a day or a week, by e-mail.

  • The Neuron Daily, short and friendly. For readers who are not engineers.
  • The Rundown AI Daily news on new AI tools and companies, in a few minutes.
  • Import AI Weekly, by Jack Clark. Deeper: research papers and what they mean for policy.

Video channels

For people who like to watch and listen. All have captions.

  • 3Blue1Brown Beautiful animated lessons on how neural networks and Transformers work. Start here.
  • Andrej Karpathy A leading AI researcher explains large language models, from the basics up.
  • AI Explained Careful looks at new models and claims: what is real and what is hype.
  • Two Minute Papers New research results in short, cheerful videos.
  • StatQuest The statistics and math behind machine learning, step by step.

Free courses

When you want to go one step deeper.

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