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Platform Portability
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Ahead of AI focuses on machine learning and AI research and is read by more than 200,000 researchers and practitioners who want to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving field.
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Avg Comments
16.0
Avg Likes
225.8
Engagement Rate
0.12%· ~242 likes + comments/post
(comments + likes) / subscribers
Typical for lists with 200K+ subscribers
Quality Score
Engagement vs AI
0.12% engagement rate
Score Breakdown
Engagement Score
| Public |
| LLM Research Papers: The 2026 List (January to May)A curated roundup of notable LLM research papers that came out this yearJun 6, 2026 | Subscriber-only |
| Recent Developments in LLM Architectures: KV Sharing, mHC, and Compressed AttentionFrom Gemma 4 to DeepSeek V4, How New Open-Weight LLMs Are Reducing Long-Context CostsMay 16, 2026 | Public |
| My Workflow for Understanding LLM ArchitecturesA learning-oriented workflow for understanding new open-weight model releasesApr 18, 2026 | Subscriber-only |
| Components of A Coding AgentHow coding agents use tools, memory, and repo context to make LLMs work better in practiceApr 4, 2026 | Public |
| A Visual Guide to Attention Variants in Modern LLMsFrom MHA and GQA to MLA, sparse attention, and hybrid architecturesMar 22, 2026 | Public |
| A Dream of Spring for Open-Weight LLMs: 10 Architectures from Jan-Feb 2026A Round Up And Comparison of 10 Open-Weight LLM Releases in Spring 2026Feb 25, 2026 | Public |
| Categories of Inference-Time Scaling for Improved LLM ReasoningAnd an Overview of Recent Inference-Scaling PapersJan 24, 2026 | Subscriber-only |
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Engagement Rate
0.12%
median: 0.00%
Posts per Week
0.3
median: 1.0
Publishing Consistency
89/100
median: 67/100
Subscribers
200K
median: 2K
17K paid
Weekly Growth
Stable
Paid Subscriber Retention
+2.6%
net growth
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Publishing Frequency
Monthly
Last published Jun 27, 2026
0.3 posts/week avg
AI Pricing
$6.9/mo median
Below average(-13%)
Monetization Readiness
Already monetizing
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Consistent Publisher
Publishing consistency (89/100) is well above the AI median (67/100).