Who to follow

The AI feed worth having

64 accounts — the researchers building the models, the practitioners who explain how, and the labs themselves. Names, bios and follower counts are pulled live from the X API, so this list corrects itself when an account moves or disappears.

64accounts
40.1Mcombined followers

🔬 Researchers & Lab Leaders

The people actually building the models. Follow these for signal before it becomes news.

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Andrew Ng

@AndrewYNg

Co-Founder of Coursera; Stanford CS adjunct faculty. Former head of Baidu AI Group/Google Brain. #ai #machinelearning, #deeplearning #MOOCs

1.7M followers on 20k lists
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Demis Hassabis

@demishassabis

Nobel Laureate. Co-Founder & CEO @GoogleDeepMind - working on AGI. Solving disease @IsomorphicLabs. Trying to understand the fundamental nature of reality.

1.5M followers on 13k lists
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Yann LeCun

@ylecun

Professor at NYU & Executive Chairman at AMI Labs. Ex-Chief AI Scientist at Meta. Researcher in AI, Machine Learning, Robotics, etc. ACM Turing Award Laureate.

1.2M followers on 17k lists
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François Chollet

@fchollet

Co-founder @ndea. Co-founder @arcprize. Creator of Keras and ARC-AGI. Author of 'Deep Learning with Python'.

709k followers on 10k lists
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Jim Fan

@DrJimFan

NVIDIA Director of Robotics & Distinguished Scientist. Co-Lead of GEAR lab. Solving Physical AGI, one motor at a time. Stanford Ph.D. OpenAI's 1st intern.

507k followers on 6k lists
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Jeff Dean

@JeffDean

Chief Scientist, Google DeepMind & Google Research. Gemini Lead. Opinions stated here are my own, not those of Google. TensorFlow, MapReduce, Bigtable, ...

450k followers on 8k lists
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hardmaru

@hardmaru

Co-Founder and CEO @SakanaAILabs 🎏

424k followers on 5k lists
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Oriol Vinyals

@OriolVinyalsML

VP of Research & Deep Learning Lead, Google DeepMind. Gemini co-lead. Past: AlphaStar, AlphaFold, AlphaCode, WaveNet, seq2seq, distillation, TF.

205k followers on 4k lists
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Aran Komatsuzaki

@arankomatsuzaki

Sharing AI research. Early work on AI (GPT-J, scaling, MoE). Ex ML PhD (GT) & Google.

184k followers on 2k lists
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Max Tegmark

@tegmark

Known as Mad Max for my unorthodox ideas and passion for adventure, my scientific interests range from artificial intelligence to the ultimate nature of reality

155k followers on 3k lists
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Noam Brown

@polynoamial

Researching reasoning @OpenAI | Co-created Libratus/Pluribus superhuman poker AIs, CICERO Diplomacy AI, and OpenAI o-series 🍓 reasoning models

152k followers on 3k lists
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Lucas Beyer (bl16)

@giffmana

Researcher (now: Meta. ex: OpenAI, DeepMind, Brain, RWTH Aachen), Gamer, Hacker, Belgian. Anon feedback: https://t.co/xe2XUqkKit ✗DMs → email

144k followers on 2k lists
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Jack Clark

@jackclarkSF

@AnthropicAI, ONEAI OECD, co-chair @indexingai, writer @ https://t.co/3vmtHYkIJ2 Past: @openai, @business @theregister. Neural nets, distributed systems, weird futures

137k followers on 4k lists
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Jason Wei

@_jasonwei

ai researcher @meta superintelligence labs, past: openai, google 🧠

110k followers on 2k lists
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Sasha Rush

@srush_nlp

Researcher at Cursor https://t.co/cZl0wTfqGz

82k followers on 1k lists
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Shane Legg

@ShaneLegg

Chief AGI Scientist & Co-Founder, Google DeepMind Work website: https://t.co/E4SyeGVYXk Personal blog: https://t.co/LL9JNdNpW1

81k followers on 2k lists
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Sara Hooker

@sarahookr

Building intelligence that evolves @adaption_ai. Built @Cohere_Labs, @GoogleBrain, @GoogleDeepmind. ML Efficiency, Multimodal\lingual.

63k followers on 985 lists
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Prof. Anima Anandkumar

@AnimaAnandkumar

AI+Science, Bren Professor @caltech, Time100, Fmr Sr Director of #AI research @nvidia Fmr Principal Scientist @awscloud

41k followers on 519 lists
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Jerry Tworek

@MillionInt

CEO and co-founder of @CoreAutoAI former VP of RL @ OpenAI : reasoning models, o3, o1, GPT4, ChatGPT, Codex, RL for robots cautious AI optimist

39k followers on 639 lists

🛠️ Builders & Educators

Practitioners who ship and then explain how. The most useful follows if you want to build something.

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Rowan Cheung

@rowancheung

Founder of the world’s most read daily AI newsletter @therundownai. Sharing the latest developments in the world of artificial intelligence.

594k followers on 12k lists

ML/AI research engineer. Ex stats professor. Author of "Build a Large Language Model From Scratch" (https://t.co/O8LAAMRzzW) & reasoning (https://t.co/5TueQKx2Fk)

484k followers on 6k lists
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Matt Shumer

@mattshumer_

Investor in @GroqInc @Etched @Rork @DaytonaIO @OpenRouter + more. Prev: CEO @HyperWriteAI | Pushing AI limits @AlphaSchool Press: mattshumermedia@gmail.com

373k followers on 5k lists
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Ethan Mollick

@emollick

Professor @Wharton studying AI, innovation & startups. Democratizing education using tech Book: https://t.co/CSmipbJ2jV Substack: https://t.co/UIBhxu4bgq

370k followers on 9k lists
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elvis

@omarsar0

Building self-improving AI @dair_ai • Prev: Meta AI | PhD • Learn about AI Agents for FREE here: https://t.co/P5SA9u54xO

312k followers on 5k lists
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Riley Goodside

@goodside

Mostly screenshots of chatbots since 2022. Formerly: Google DeepMind, Scale.

220k followers on 3k lists
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Simon Willison

@simonw

Creator @datasetteproj, co-creator Django. PSF board. Hangs out with @natbat. He/Him. Mastodon: https://t.co/t0MrmnJW0K Bsky: https://t.co/OnWIyhX4CH

199k followers on 6k lists
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Ben Tossell

@bentossell

can't code, won't code. builder, investor (dev tools/infra). 3 under 3 👶.

197k followers on 4k lists
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swyx

@swyx

achieve ambition with intentionality, intensity, integrity & insanity. affiliations: - @dxtipshq - @cognition - @temporalio - @aidotengineer - @latentspacepod

176k followers on 4k lists
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Alex Albert

@alexalbert__

Research @AnthropicAI. Opinions are my own!

146k followers on 3k lists
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Harrison Chase

@hwchase17

@LangChain Always hiring: https://t.co/D5Ut3loFO7

121k followers on 2k lists
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Lior Alexander

@LiorOnAI

Founder @AlphaSignalAI (300k devs) • Ex-MILA researcher focusing on solving the explosion of information in AI.

117k followers on 2k lists
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Philipp Schmid

@_philschmid

Agents & Gemini API, MTS @GoogleDeepMind | prev: Tech Lead at @huggingface, AWS ML Hero 🤗 Sharing my own views and AI News 🧑🏻‍💻 https://t.co/7IosdlO6RA

102k followers on 1k lists
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Jerry Liu

@jerryjliu0

Parsing the world's hardest PDFs @llama_index. cofounder/CEO Careers: https://t.co/EUnMNmbCtx Enterprise: https://t.co/Ht5jwxSrQB

80k followers on 2k lists
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Hamel Husain

@HamelHusain

Evals Evals Evals - https://t.co/Zrmp6LRd9c About Me: https://t.co/P6WyeKkyTa

51k followers on 1k lists
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Daniel Han

@danielhanchen

Building @UnslothAI • Making open-source LLMs faster, better & more accessible • YC S24 • ex-NVIDIA ML

35k followers on 514 lists
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Eugene Yan

@eugeneyan

MTS @AnthropicAI. Prev: Principal Applied Scientist @Amazon, led ML @ Alibaba, Healthtech startup.

28k followers on 803 lists
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Kyle Corbitt

@corbtt

Currently building @OpenPipeAI (acquired by @CoreWeave). Formerly @ycombinator, @google.

20k followers on 414 lists

🏢 Labs & Companies

Official accounts. Slower and more polished, but this is where releases land first.

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OpenAI

@OpenAI

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. We’re hiring: https://t.co/dJGr6LgzPA

5M followers on 31k lists
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NVIDIA

@nvidia

The official handle for NVIDIA. Blog: https://t.co/JAn5eKOTBT Support: https://t.co/6ln5FVnA2o All our social media: https://t.co/Uc56dL57Dh

2.6M followers on 10k lists
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Google AI

@GoogleAI

Making AI helpful for everyone. Show thinking ↓

2.4M followers on 29k lists
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Anthropic

@AnthropicAI

We're an AI safety and research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Talk to our AI assistant @claudeai on https://t.co/FhDI3KQh0n.

1.5M followers on 14k lists
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Google DeepMind

@GoogleDeepMind

The engine room of @Google. Building AI safely and responsibly to solve the world’s most complex problems. Join us: https://t.co/jUHQA27iBL

1.5M followers on 17k lists
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AI at Meta

@AIatMeta

Together with the AI community, we are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible through open science to create a more connected world.

826k followers on 12k lists
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Hugging Face

@huggingface

The AI community building the future. https://t.co/TpiXQMQ9rZ

733k followers on 9k lists
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Perplexity

@perplexity_ai

Curiosity changes everything. Download our free app on iOS, Mac, Windows, and Android.

498k followers on 5k lists
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Midjourney

@midjourney

A community supported research lab - exploring new mediums of thought and amplifying the imaginative powers of the human species.

460k followers on 4k lists
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Cursor

@cursor_ai

Coding agent for building ambitious software

436k followers on 4k lists
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Runway

@runwayml

Building AI to simulate the world. We're hiring: https://t.co/Aj11xygZYI

284k followers on 4k lists
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Stability AI

@StabilityAI

We’ll help you make it like nobody’s business. Multimodal media generation and editing tools to get your idea to production. Self-deploy? 👍 Need a partner? 🤝

259k followers on 4k lists
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LangChain

@LangChain

Powering the Agent Development Lifecycle. Makers of LangSmith and @LangChain_OSS and @LangChain_JS.

259k followers on 4k lists
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Mistral AI

@MistralAI

Frontier AI in your hands. Get work done with @MistralVibe at https://t.co/JsGnCVMUFq.

200k followers on 3k lists
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ElevenLabs

@ElevenLabs

AI research and products that transform how we interact with technology. Leading foundational models powering ElevenAgents, @ElevenCreative, and ElevenAPI.

187k followers on 2k lists
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ollama

@ollama

https://t.co/1JpLwJ9Bdv

171k followers on 2k lists
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LlamaIndex 🦙

@llama_index

The most accurate agentic OCR platform for production AI. LlamaParse: https://t.co/yQGTiRSNvj Docs: https://t.co/us6GCS1Clb

118k followers on 2k lists
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Cohere

@cohere

Own your AI. Empowering enterprises with private, powerful systems and builders with accessible, open-source models.

118k followers on 2k lists
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Hume AI

@hume_ai

Build and measure voice models and agents the way people experience them, based on research and grounded in real human judgment.

23k followers on 417 lists
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wan deeee bee

@weights_biases

Dedicated to beautiful @wandb curves. I enjoy long training runs on the beach.

464 followers on 16 lists

Where this comes from: Handles are curated; display names, bios and follower counts come straight from the X API v2. Bios are the account holders’ own words, unedited. Last refreshed 22 July 2026. Nothing on this page is a paid placement.