Resources

The best resources for AI in Austin, ranked by importance. Each entry includes the web address, contact information, a summary of what they offer, and our commentary on why it matters.

#1

Stanford HAI

https://hai.stanford.edu
Contact: info@hai.stanford.edu
Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered AI. Research papers, policy recommendations, AI index report tracking global AI progress.
The gold standard for understanding where AI is and where it's going. Their annual AI Index Report is the single best summary of the industry. Required reading.
#2

Anthropic Research

https://www.anthropic.com/research
Contact: press@anthropic.com
AI safety research from the makers of Claude. Constitutional AI, interpretability, and alignment research.
The company most focused on making AI safe. Their research on AI alignment is shaping how the entire industry builds large language models.
#3

arXiv AI Papers

https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/recent
Contact: help@arxiv.org
Preprint server for the latest AI research papers. Updated daily. Free and open access.
Where AI breakthroughs appear first, often months before peer review. Overwhelming volume but essential for staying current. Follow specific researchers.
#4

Capital Factory

https://www.capitalfactory.com
Contact: info@capitalfactory.com
Austin's startup HQ. Accelerator, coworking, mentor network. The center of gravity for Austin tech and AI startups.
If you're doing anything AI-related in Austin, you need to be connected to Capital Factory. It's not optional. The network effect here is real.
#5

UT Austin CS/AI

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/research/artificial-intelligence
Contact: cs-info@cs.utexas.edu
Top-10 AI research program. NLP, computer vision, reinforcement learning, robotics labs. Produces commercial spinoffs.
The talent pipeline for Austin's AI ecosystem. Graduates increasingly stay in Austin instead of going to SF. The program that makes Austin an AI city.
#6

Hugging Face

https://huggingface.co
Contact: hello@huggingface.co
The GitHub of AI. Open-source models, datasets, and tools. Community-driven AI development.
Democratized AI access more than any other platform. If you want to use AI, not just read about it, start here. Models, datasets, and spaces — all free.
#7

Papers With Code

https://paperswithcode.com
Contact: contact@paperswithcode.com
Research papers linked to their implementation code. Benchmarks and leaderboards for every AI task.
Bridges the gap between research and practice. Every major paper with working code you can actually run. The practical researcher's best friend.

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