I'm not the only one doing this. - karpathy best thought leader, best person to learn from imo. Nanochat is the best way to get into training LLMs its the simplest and most digestible source for building your first AI model - steipete This guys GitHub is a national treasure, his writing is also very strong. Peekaboo, summarize.sh, openclaw, oracle, just talk to it, etc.. all unique and very useful - badlogicgames Mario’s Pi is a staple AI engine and possibly the best, simplest, open source agentic loop to learn from. Despite what people say about his methods, I think he’s going to set some new standards for Open source contribution. Big respect. - TheAhmadOsman This man is the GPU king, giveaways and lots of dense educational content around self hosting and home inference. He’s also tight with pretty much all the open weight labs and has them on for interviews regularly - sudoingX This is an up and comer who will change the game, he's pushing the limits of what a single gpu can do - Ex0byt I can confidently say this man will be fundamental in making local inference on massive models possible. - alexinexxx I genuinely feel motivated by her drive. She’s a real hard worker learning about GPU kernel programming. Also good aesthetics - gospaceport I would not have gotten into building my own hardware without this man’s hard work. He’s taught me so much about hardware and the economics of this. He also has the most impressive homelabs I’ve ever seen. - alexocheema The founder of Exolabs, pioneering Apple hardware inference, he’s also very engaged in the community and a good guy all around. If you are interested in Mac minis and Mac Studios this is your guys. - nummanali This guy is so prolific, he’s made tons of CLI tools for managing llm subscription budgets, using Claude code with alternative models etc.. - thdxr The entire Opencode team is wonderful but Dax specifically is a good writer. More anti-doomer content to sooth your anxieties. - juliarturc If you are interested in the science, Julias channel is where it’s at. Almost everything I’ve learned about LLM compression has been from her. - Teknium The Nous research & Prime intellect teams are both some of the most hard-working and principled people around. Tough fight in an industry so aggressive. - victormustar Head of Product for Huggingface, enabling us all to publish our work. - louszbd Head of community at ZAI some of the top LLMs available right now that are open weights. They supercharged the movement - SkylerMiao7 Making frontier intelligence fit on 10k USD of hardware. Via MiniMax - crystalsssup Building the best Open Weight model on the market, and releasing their latest research before their next gen model. Believe it or not these people are carrying the entire industry and giving us a fighting chance.