Sector 02 / Artificial Intelligence

The AI stack, from first prompt to published paper

Assistants worth using daily, the APIs and frameworks to build on, the tools that generate images, audio and video, plus the research, courses and governance material behind it all.

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Frontier Models & Assistants

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The general-purpose systems worth having open in a tab.

OpenAI's assistant with tools, code execution and voice.

Anthropic's assistant, strong at long documents and careful reasoning.

Google's multimodal assistant tied into Search and Workspace.

Answer engine with inline citations — great for research starts.

Fast European assistant with open-weight lineage.

xAI's assistant with real-time posting-stream context.

Strong open-weight reasoning models at very low cost.

Build With AI

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Platforms, APIs and app builders for shipping things.

Build full-stack web apps by chatting — this site was made with it.

API reference, cookbook and model pricing.

Claude API, tool use, and prompt engineering guides.

Models, datasets and Spaces — the hub of open ML.

Framework for chaining models, tools and retrieval.

Data framework for retrieval-augmented generation.

Run open models locally with one command.

Run and fine-tune thousands of models via API.

AI-native code editor built on VS Code.

Image, Audio & Video

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Generative tools for pictures, sound and motion.

Distinctive, highly aesthetic image generation.

Open-weight image models and the ecosystem around them.

Node-based pipeline builder for diffusion workflows.

Leading text-to-speech, dubbing and voice cloning.

Full song generation from a text prompt.

Video generation and editing for filmmakers.

Open speech recognition, robust across accents and noise.

Research & Papers

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Read the primary literature, not the summary of the summary.

Preprint firehose for artificial intelligence.

Benchmarks linked to reproducible implementations.

Daily curated papers with community discussion.

Archived but unmatched visual explanations of ML concepts.

AI-powered literature search with citation graphs.

Publications from one of the leading labs.

Interpretability and alignment work in the open.

Learn AI & ML

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Courses that actually build understanding.

Top-down practical deep learning, completely free.

Andrew Ng's specialisations plus short courses on new tooling.

Build a GPT from scratch, line by line.

NLP, diffusion, agents and RL, hands-on with notebooks.

Bite-sized practical notebooks and competitions.

The clearest introduction to reinforcement learning.

Fundamentals with interactive exercises.

Safety, Policy & Governance

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How the technology is being measured and regulated.

The annual data reference on AI progress and adoption.

Explorer for the world's first comprehensive AI regulation.

Practical governance framework used across industry.

Country-by-country policy tracking and metrics.

Technical discussion on making advanced systems safe.

Crowdsourced head-to-head model leaderboard.

News & Communities

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Signal over hype.

Jack Clark's weekly newsletter on research and policy.

DeepLearning.AI's weekly roundup with commentary.

Where new tools surface first, with critical comments.

The centre of gravity for running open models yourself.

Consistently the most useful practical LLM writing online.

Measured technology journalism on AI developments.