With new models, updated tech stacks and the exponential growth in the generative AI space, it is hard to keep your finger on the pulse and information is fragmented across a host of blogs, social media channels and sites.
Here we breakdown some of the movers and shakers who are sharing and caring for the AI community and consistently throwing great info out to the masses on all things AI related.
Ben's Bites. (Ben Tossell)
My fav AI related newsletter by far is Bens Bites. Peppered with pure unadulterated English humour Ben is the pink matter behind Makerpad a no code education site aquired by Zapier in 2021 who now throws his thoughts and findings in AI exploration and general awesomeness into a newsletter jam packed with links to all the latest tools of the trade and stuff he finds interesting.
Your daily dose of what's going on in AI. In 5 minutes or less, with a touch of humour. Read by over 10,000 others from Google, a16z, Sequoia, Amazon, Meta and more.
Kriss.Art (Kris Kashtanova)
I stumbled across Kris's site via LinkedIn and have found all of the content on her site invaluable in my own personal learning curve. Well delivered and thought out tutorials are found hand in hand with easy to follow breakdowns on prompt help and getting the most out of Midjourney. She lays it all on the line and is brutally honest in the struggles she has faced within the space but some of her insights and tuts were extremely helpful to my personal learning.
Linus Ekenstam
Linus is a product/experience designer and serial Entrepreneur hailing from Barcelona. Previously at Typeform, he has now gone down the indie-entrepreneur route spawning awesome projects like bedtimestory.ai and Sensive.xyz
His tweet threads are sprinkled with absolute nuggets of gold and he is a must follow in this evolving space proudly tackling topics head on.
Danny Postma
Danny is one of those people who you truly wonder whether they sleep at all. His work ethic and pure driven ambition is something pretty amazing to witness, plus the guy is the epitome of the "super nice Dutch guy"
An Indie hacker at heart, he builds at a rate of knots and is a master of automating his projects bringing me squarly to one of his triumphs headlime.com aquired by Jasper.ai
Fast forward to today and you can find Danny tirelessly churning on his latest projects, profilepicture.ai, stockai.com and landingfolio.com
Pieter Levels
If bootstrapping companies solo was an Olympic sport then Pieter Levels is Michael Phelps. Building nearly entirely as a 1 man band and laying the whole process out in public including results (good or bad but nearly always good) is what Pieter does best.
Listing his succesful projects would make this post way too long but some of his more prominent projects are nomadlist.com, https://remoteok.com, https://rebase.co/portugal and more recently in the AI space avatarai.me, thishousedoesnotexist.org and interiorai.com
Oh, and he also wrote a pretty epic book. readmake.com
If your an aspiring Indiepreneur, thinking of turning your side hustle into into a full time gig or just after some down to earth, pull no punches, no holds barred advice on the Indiehacker space or actually just about anything happening of any note, check him out.
Brian Sykes
LinkedIn is not just a home for boomers or people spamming your inbox with their latest course, it actually ย has a thriving AI space and it is within that community that you will find Brian.
Brand Architect, A.I. Whisperer, Marketing Consultant & Educator, Transformational Thought Leader and Keynote Speaker are just some of the numerous strings to Brians rather large bow and that bow packs quite the punch.
The founder of Headspace Branding, Brian is the melting pot of traditional marketing strategies assimilating with cutting edge AI tech, a pretty well positioned person if the truth be told.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianwsykes/
The Ai (R)evolution (Benjamin Dehant)
People think AI is science fiction. Robots revolting against us, evil overlords, man versus machine. But it's not all like that (yet). AI has already made our lives easier. It helps us with daily tasks and saves us time to spend on more important things in life.
Ben is a freelance creative designer with a solid background in VR and NFT design.
@MDMZ (Mohamed Mehrez)
Mo is a video Editor & Motion Graphic Designer with a massive interest in integrating AI tools into his workflow.
Lore AI (Nathan Lands)
Lore means a body of knowledge on a subject, typically passed by word of mouth.
Lore was founded as a community-focused movie-studio in partnership with Barrie Osborne, producer of Lord of the Rings and The Matrix.
After the studio shutdown due to the pandemic and change in financial markets, Nathan decided to pursue a new path with Generative AI after being blown away by GitHub Copilot and Dall-E.
Lore is now home to a ever growing hub of resources, software and consulting to make Generative AI mainstream. Their newsletter is chock full of the latest breakthroughs and innovative tools of the trade and they just launched a generative AI twitter community.
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