Best group chat for AI (2026)

Updated October 22, 2026. Run by the Best Group Chat team.

It depends on what you want to talk about. For AI in general, try AI Trends on Tribe, Latent Space on Discord, r/MachineLearning on Reddit or the MLOps Community on Slack. For open-weights models, try EleutherAI on Discord, Hugging Face on Discord, r/LocalLLaMA on Reddit or Open Weights AI on Tribe. For robotics, try Futurists in Robotics on Tribe, r/robotics on Reddit or ROS Discourse.

Best Group Chat is a project of Tribe, the company behind the Tribe group chat app, so 3 of the 11 picks below are Tribe chats. The Platform column shows where each pick lives. Picks are listed alphabetically within each group.

Quick picks

Group chats and communities for AI, grouped by goal

Pick	Platform	Join
Technical and product talk about AI
AI Trends	Tribe	Apply on Tribe
Latent Space	Discord	Join on Discord
r/MachineLearning	Reddit	Open on Reddit
MLOps Community	Slack	Visit mlops.community
Open-weights models
EleutherAI	Discord	Join on Discord
Hugging Face	Discord	Join on Discord
r/LocalLLaMA	Reddit	Open on Reddit
Open Weights AI	Tribe	Join on Tribe
Robotics
Futurists in Robotics	Tribe	Join on Tribe
r/robotics	Reddit	Open on Reddit
ROS Discourse	Discourse	Visit the forum

AI in general

These cover AI news, products and engineering. Group chats suit live conversation. Reddit suits searching past threads.

• AI Trends (Tribe). A group chat for technical and product discussions about AI-related topics. Joining works by application. Apply on Tribe
• Latent Space (Discord). The Discord for the Latent Space community of hosts, guests, readers and listeners. Members talk about AI news, share events in several cities and join weekly paper clubs. Join on Discord
• r/MachineLearning (Reddit). A large subreddit for data scientists and ML engineers. Open on Reddit
• MLOps Community (Slack). A community for ML engineers focused on machine learning operations and deployment, with real-time chat, events and job listings. Visit mlops.community

TODO before publishing: add the same facts for every pick in this group (member count, how active it is, 1 recent topic from real messages). For AI Trends, take them from the real chat. Then delete this box.

Open-weights models

Open-weights models are AI models whose trained weights are published, so you can download and run them yourself. License terms vary by model.

• EleutherAI (Discord). A non-profit AI research lab focused on open science. Its community works on open models, datasets and code, and its community page links the Discord. Join on Discord
• Hugging Face (Discord). The Discord for Hugging Face, where many open-weights models are published. It covers open-source machine learning, with channels for areas like computer vision and NLP. Join on Discord
• r/LocalLLaMA (Reddit). A subreddit for locally hostable AI. Posts stay public and searchable, which suits looking up past answers. Open on Reddit
• Open Weights AI (Tribe). A group chat for creators, coders and thinkers working on open-weights AI. Join on Tribe

TODO before publishing: add the same facts for every pick in this group (member count, how active it is, 1 recent topic from real messages). For Open Weights AI, take them from the real chat. Then delete this box.

Robotics

Robotics will get its own full guide. For now, here are 3 places to start.

• Futurists in Robotics (Tribe). A group chat where robotics founders, engineers and visionaries talk about the past, present and future of robots. Join on Tribe
• r/robotics (Reddit). A subreddit for robotics in general. It welcomes hobbyists, students and professionals, with project showcases and advice requests. Open on Reddit
• ROS Discourse (Discourse). The official discussion forum for ROS, Gazebo and related Open Robotics projects. Used for getting help, following news and sharing projects. Visit the forum

TODO before publishing: add the same facts for every pick in this group (member count, how active it is, 1 recent topic from real messages). For Futurists in Robotics, take them from the real chat. Then delete this box.

How to pick an AI group chat

• Start with your goal: news and trends, building with tools, running models, or research.
• Check the platform. A community on an app you already use is easier to keep up with.
• Look for recent activity. A chat with messages from this week beats a big one gone quiet.
• Read the rules and check who moderates it.
• Try 1 forum and 1 chat if you can. Forums are good for searching old answers. Chats are good for live conversation.

FAQ

What is the best group chat for AI?

It depends on your goal. For AI in general, try AI Trends on Tribe, Latent Space on Discord, r/MachineLearning on Reddit or the MLOps Community on Slack. For open-weights models, try EleutherAI on Discord, Hugging Face on Discord, r/LocalLLaMA on Reddit or Open Weights AI on Tribe. For robotics, try Futurists in Robotics on Tribe, r/robotics on Reddit or ROS Discourse.

How do I join AI Trends?

Open the invite link and use the Apply button. Tribe runs on Mac, iOS, Android and the web.

What does open weights mean?

Open-weights models are AI models whose trained weights are published, so you can download and run them yourself. License terms vary by model.

Should I use Discord, Reddit, Slack or a group chat app?

Reddit and forums keep a searchable public archive. Discord, Slack and group chat apps tend to suit live conversation. Many people use 1 of each.

Who runs this site?

The Best Group Chat team. A project of Tribe, the company behind the Tribe group chat app. We show where each pick lives and list picks alphabetically within each group. More on the About page.