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The best YouTube channels to understand and use artificial intelligence, hand-picked by AI Race.

How we choose

  • A real audience, measured on the channel itself
  • An active channel (or a timeless reference)
  • Teaching for everyone, no prior knowledge needed
  • No hype and no promises of easy money
01

Discover

No background needed: what AI is and what is at stake

Art of the Problem

by Brit Cruise

Documentary-style histories that show how ideas led, step by step, to today's language models.

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The 35 Year History of ChatGPT

Robert Miles AI Safety

by Robert Miles

Clear, calm and often funny explanations of why making powerful AI safe is hard, without doom-mongering.

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Intro to AI Safety, Remastered

02

Understand

How AI works inside, explained clearly

3Blue1Brown

by Grant Sanderson

Beautiful visual animations make neural networks, transformers and LLMs genuinely understandable without hiding the maths.

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Large Language Models explained briefly

Computerphile

by Sean Riley

Real computer scientists explain AI concepts with pen and paper, from transformers to AI safety and watermarking.

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AI Language Models & Transformers - Computerphile

Andrej Karpathy

by Andrej Karpathy

A founding member of OpenAI and former Tesla AI lead explains, from first principles and in plain language, how ChatGPT-like models are built and how to use them well.

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Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT

StatQuest

by Josh Starmer

Step-by-step, jargon-free explanations of machine learning and neural networks, one small idea at a time.

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Transformer Neural Networks, ChatGPT's foundation, Clearly Explained!!!

Welch Labs

by Stephen Welch

Cinematic, carefully researched visual essays that explain why deep learning works and where its limits are.

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The moment we stopped understanding AI [AlexNet]

AI Explained

by Philip

Careful, source-based breakdowns of new models, papers and benchmarks that separate real progress from hype.

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You Are Being Told Contradictory Things About AI

Luis Serrano Academy

by Luis Serrano

Friendly, visual explanations of the ideas behind modern AI, from attention to fine-tuning, with simple examples instead of equations.

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What are Transformer Models and how do they work?

03

Practice

Using AI tools well, day to day

Jeff Su

by Jeff Su

Concrete, no-nonsense tutorials on using ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini in everyday office work.

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How I'd Learn AI From Scratch in 2026 (skip the useless 80%)

Subscriber counts read on YouTube on 1 October 2026.

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