Communities
8 resources
Forums and communities worth reading rather than just joining. Split by what people go there for — building, research, or safety and alignment.
Hugging Face Hub
The largest open ML community
Models, datasets and Spaces in one place, with discussion threads attached to each. In practice the default home for open-source ML.
Hugging Face Forums
Long-form technical discussion
Where the questions too involved for a GitHub issue end up, often answered by library maintainers.
r/LocalLLaMA
Running open models on your own hardware
The most active place for quantisation, inference speed and consumer-GPU results. Fast-moving and consistently practical.