Discord servers for founders and AI builders: 12 checked on their own pages
12 founder communities that run a Discord server for members, taken from our comparison of 471 founder communities. Each row is as the community's own page showed it, on the date in the row.
Discord servers for founders and AI builders compared
| Community | Who it's for | Format | Price as published | Entry rule | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cerebral Valley | AI builders, labs and companies | Hackathons, events listing, Slack and Discord; hubs in 16 cities including Sydney | Not stated | Some events by host approval from a waitlist | |
| Claude Discord (Anthropic) | Developers building with Claude | Official Discord server | No price shown | Open invite | |
| Colosseum | Crypto founders building on Solana | Online hackathons twice a year, a perpetual hackathon and a Discord; accelerator in San Francisco | Not published | Join the online hackathon; accelerator places go to selected winners | |
| Hugging Face community | People building with open models | Forums with a Show and Tell category, Discord | No price shown | Open | |
| lablab.ai | Anyone building with AI, any level | Online and hybrid hackathons, Discord | Free to attend | Open; some on-site phases by invitation | |
| Latent Space | AI engineers | Discord with city channels, weekly paper club, meetups | Free; paid newsletter from US$6.90 a month | Open Discord invite | |
| LlamaIndex Discord | Developers building agents and document apps with LlamaIndex | Discord server, plus r/LlamaIndex on Reddit | Not published (public invite link) | Open invite link from the LlamaIndex GitHub README | |
| Mistral AI Discord | Developers and users building on Mistral models and its API | Official Discord server, linked from the Mistral docs | Not published (public invite link) | Open invite link from the Mistral docs | |
| Nous Research Discord | Builders and researchers working on open source AI and agents | Discord server linked from the Nous site and Hermes Agent README | Not published (public invite link) | Open invite link from the Nous Research site | |
| Ollama Discord | Developers running and building on open models locally or in the cloud | Discord server, plus a Reddit community | Not published (public invite link) | Open invite link from the Ollama docs | |
| OpenAI Developer Community | Developers building with the OpenAI API | Forum, plus an OpenAI Discord | No price shown | Open | |
| Unsloth AI Discord | Builders fine-tuning and running open LLMs locally | Discord server, plus r/unsloth on Reddit | Not published (public invite link) | Open invite link from the Unsloth GitHub page |
Questions
- Are there Discord servers for AI builders?
- Yes. Cerebral Valley, Claude Discord (Anthropic), Hugging Face community, lablab.ai, Latent Space, LlamaIndex Discord, Mistral AI Discord, Nous Research Discord, Ollama Discord, OpenAI Developer Community and Unsloth AI Discord run Discord for members, as their own pages showed when we checked.
- Which of these Discord communities are free?
- lablab.ai and Latent Space say they're free to join or have a free tier. The rest don't publish a price for the server, so check each one's own page.