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💬 AI Communities

Where to actually ask questions, by topic. Member counts are approximate (June 2026) — platforms block live count APIs, so we label estimates rather than fake precision.

Local & open models

  • r/LocalLLaMAReddit

    THE community for running models locally — quantization, hardware, fine-tunes.

    ~900K
  • Hugging Face Discord & ForumsForum

    Library help, model releases, course support — the open-source hub.

    ~100K

Research

  • r/MachineLearningReddit

    Research-flavored: paper discussions, [R] threads, career advice.

    ~3M
  • EleutherAI DiscordDiscord

    Open research collective — serious ML research chat, interpretability.

    ~30K

Image & video gen

  • r/StableDiffusionReddit

    Image-gen workflows, LoRAs, ComfyUI — applies to FLUX and friends too.

    ~700K
  • r/aivideoReddit

    AI video showcase and technique threads (Sora, Veo, Kling, Runway).

    ~150K

Using AI

  • r/ChatGPTReddit

    The biggest consumer AI community — use cases, prompts, news reactions.

    ~10M
  • r/ClaudeAIReddit

    Claude tips, Claude Code workflows, agent setups.

    ~500K

Building

News & debate

  • Hacker NewsForum

    Every major AI release gets dissected here within the hour.

  • r/singularityReddit

    AGI speculation and breaking-news reactions — high volume, mixed signal.

    ~3.7M

Learning

  • KaggleForum

    Competitions, notebooks, datasets — where applied ML skills get sharpened.

    ~20M
  • AI Stack ExchangeForum

    Q&A with quality control — good for conceptual questions.

    ~60K
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