The best AI resources, ranked
The references we trust most for AI in Austin and beyond — each with its web address, contact, what it offers, and why it matters.
Stanford HAI
hai.stanford.edu · info@hai.stanford.edu
Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI — research papers, policy recommendations, and the annual AI Index Report tracking global AI progress.
The gold standard for understanding where AI is and where it’s going. The annual AI Index Report is the single best summary of the industry. Required reading.
Anthropic Research
www.anthropic.com/research · press@anthropic.com
AI-safety research — constitutional AI, interpretability, and alignment work shaping how large language models are built.
One of the field’s most focused efforts on making AI safe; its alignment research influences how the whole industry trains large models.
arXiv AI Papers
arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/recent · 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.
Capital Factory
www.capitalfactory.com · info@capitalfactory.com
Austin’s startup HQ — accelerator, coworking, and 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. The network effect here is real.
UT Austin CS / AI
www.cs.utexas.edu/research/artificial-intelligence · cs-info@cs.utexas.edu
Top-10 AI research program — NLP, computer vision, reinforcement learning, and robotics labs that produce commercial spinoffs.
The talent pipeline for Austin’s AI ecosystem. Graduates increasingly stay in Austin instead of leaving for SF — the program that makes Austin an AI city.
Hugging Face
huggingface.co · hello@huggingface.co
The GitHub of AI — open-source models, datasets, and tools driving community 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.
Papers With Code
paperswithcode.com · contact@paperswithcode.com
Research papers linked to their implementation code, with benchmarks and leaderboards for every AI task.
Bridges the gap between research and practice — every major paper with working code you can actually run.
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