This is the reference layer: where to learn the durable things, where to check claims, and which primary sources are worth your limited attention. The full searchable directory of tools is below; if you want tools organised by job instead, use the tools directory.
How to use this guide
- Learn the fundamentals once. Two or three good courses beat two hundred threads. Start with the learning section below.
- Follow primary sources, not commentary. Model cards, evaluation reports and papers. Commentary is downstream and lossy.
- Verify numbers before repeating them. The AI Index and Epoch AI exist for exactly this.
- Choose tools by job, not by hype. Every entry below says what the thing is actually good at.
Learning paths by starting point
- Complete beginner: use one assistant daily for a month on real work → a short applied course → build one automation. Understanding follows use, not the other way round.
- Business owner: the AI for business page, then forty workflows, then pick one department and go.
- Creator: video, images and products, writing. Ship something publicly in week one.
- Developer: the build section below, then apps and dApps. Then read an evaluation report so you know what you are shipping.
- Worried: the survival guide and scenario planning. Action reduces anxiety faster than information does.
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