30 Best AI YouTube Channels to Follow in 2026

Every channel below was checked against its own feed: how many videos it has published, how often it actually uploads, when it last did, and how much of it is genuinely about AI. Measured across 1,443 videos, not assembled from other people's lists.

30Channels
1,443Videos tracked
8Excluded
2026-08-03Last verified

How this list was built

We track 46 YouTube channel feeds. 30 made this page. Three rules decide it, applied without exception:

8 active channels were excluded by that third rule alone — still uploading, still worth watching, just not about AI often enough to belong on a list with this title.

All 30, ranked by how much is really AI

Ranked by the share of each channel's recent video titles that name an AI topic — measured across 1,443 video titles, with the count shown on every row so you can check it. It is not a quality ranking. A well-made channel with a wide remit sits below a narrower one, which is the point: this answers "how much of this will be about AI?", not "is it any good?".

Measured from titles, so it undercounts a channel that covers AI in a video without saying so in the title. It is a floor, not a ceiling — and it is measured rather than asserted, which is more than a hand-written list can offer.

#PodcastEpisodes naming AIEpisodesCadenceLast video
1 AI Explained YouTube channel: AI Explained RSS 100% (very high)
17 of 17
17 fortnightly 0.6/wk 2026-07-22 Follow
2 The TWIML AI Podcast with Sam Charrington YouTube channel: TWIML AI RSS 94.1% (very high)
16 of 17
17 fortnightly 0.6/wk 2026-07-27 Follow
3 All About AI RSS 93.8% (very high)
15 of 16
16 weekly 1.7/wk 2026-08-03 Follow
4 IndyDevDan RSS 93.8% (very high)
15 of 16
16 weekly 1.1/wk 2026-08-03 Follow
5 Cole Medin RSS 93.3% (very high)
14 of 15
15 several times a week 2.4/wk 2026-07-31 Follow
6 DeepLearningAI YouTube channel: DeepLearningAI RSS 86.4% (very high)
76 of 88
88 several times a week 3.8/wk 2026-07-29 Follow
7 Sam Witteveen RSS 80% (very high)
12 of 15
15 several times a week 2/wk 2026-07-31 Follow
8 edureka! YouTube channel: Meta AI RSS 74.7% (very high)
62 of 83
83 several times a week 3.4/wk 2026-08-03 Follow
9 Two Minute Papers YouTube channel: Two Minute Papers RSS 73.6% (very high)
39 of 53
53 weekly 1.9/wk 2026-08-03 Follow
10 Matthew Berman RSS 73.3% (very high)
11 of 15
15 daily 7/wk 2026-08-02 Follow
11 Prompt Engineering YouTube channel: Prompt Engineering RSS 72.5% (very high)
58 of 80
80 several times a week 3.5/wk 2026-08-03 Follow
12 Machine Learning Street Talk YouTube channel: Machine Learning Street Talk RSS 71.4% (very high)
10 of 14
14 fortnightly 0.5/wk 2026-07-31 Follow
13 OpenAI YouTube channel: OpenAI RSS 69.8% (high)
183 of 262
262 daily 11.8/wk 2026-07-29 Follow
14 Robert Miles AI Safety YouTube channel: Robert Miles AI Safety RSS 68.4% (high)
13 of 19
19 weekly 1/wk 2026-08-01 Follow
15 Matt Wolfe RSS 66.7% (high)
10 of 15
15 daily 5.5/wk 2026-08-01 Follow
16 codebasics RSS 64.7% (high)
11 of 17
17 several times a week 3.8/wk 2026-08-03 Follow
17 Wes Roth RSS 62.5% (high)
10 of 16
16 several times a week 3.1/wk 2026-08-02 Follow
18 Google DeepMind YouTube channel: Google DeepMind RSS 61.5% (high)
24 of 39
39 weekly 1.7/wk 2026-07-31 Follow
19 Stanford Online YouTube channel: Stanford Online RSS 57.5% (high)
77 of 134
134 daily 6.5/wk 2026-07-31 Follow
20 HuggingFace YouTube channel: Hugging Face RSS 56.5% (high)
39 of 69
69 several times a week 2.4/wk 2026-07-31 Follow
21 NVIDIA YouTube channel: NVIDIA AI RSS 55.6% (high)
84 of 151
151 daily 7.8/wk 2026-07-30 Follow
22 bycloud RSS 53.3% (high)
8 of 15
15 weekly 1/wk 2026-07-29 Follow
23 1littlecoder RSS 53.3% (high)
8 of 15
15 weekly 1.5/wk 2026-07-21 Follow
24 StatQuest with Josh Starmer YouTube channel: StatQuest with Josh Starmer RSS 50% (high)
10 of 20
20 monthly or less 0.2/wk 2026-07-13 Follow
25 AssemblyAI YouTube channel: AssemblyAI RSS 49.3% (high)
37 of 75
75 several times a week 2.9/wk 2026-07-28 Follow
26 AI Jason RSS 46.7% (high)
7 of 15
15 fortnightly 0.6/wk 2026-07-30 Follow
27 Fireship YouTube channel: Fireship RSS 32% (mixed)
16 of 50
50 weekly 1.5/wk 2026-07-29 Follow
28 ColdFusion YouTube channel: ColdFusion RSS 30.8% (mixed)
12 of 39
39 weekly 1/wk 2026-07-25 Follow
29 NetworkChuck YouTube channel: NetworkChuck RSS 29.2% (mixed)
14 of 48
48 weekly 1.8/wk 2026-07-30 Follow
30 David Shapiro RSS 26.7% (mixed)
4 of 15
15 weekly 1.1/wk 2026-07-29 Follow

The 14 that publish most often

Most channels post weekly. These upload at least twice a week, measured from our own crawl rather than from what the channel notes claim: Cole Medin (2.4/wk), DeepLearningAI (3.8/wk), Sam Witteveen (2/wk), edureka! (3.4/wk), Matthew Berman (7/wk), Prompt Engineering (3.5/wk), OpenAI (11.8/wk), Matt Wolfe (5.5/wk).

Follow them all at once

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Prefer to pick your own? The Follow button on each row adds just that channel, and every row links its raw RSS feed — YouTube publishes one for every channel, which is what makes this page possible.

Submit a channel

Running an AI channel that is not here? Send the feed URL to akshay@hushflowai.com. It appears once it clears the same two rules as everything else — at least 10 videos and something published within 60 days. Position is computed from AI-centrality, so it cannot be requested or bought.

Frequently asked questions

What are the best AI YouTube channels in 2026?

We track 30 that are still actively publishing. By AI-centrality the most AI-focused are AI Explained, The TWIML AI Podcast with Sam Charrington, All About AI, IndyDevDan, Cole Medin.

How do you decide which channels make the list?

At least 10 collected videos and something published within 60 days. 8 of 46 tracked channels did not qualify.

Are these ranked by quality?

No. They are ranked by how much of each channel is actually about AI, which we can measure. Quality is a judgement we cannot.

Is the list kept up to date?

It is rebuilt from the feeds themselves, so a channel that stops publishing drops off rather than sitting here for years. Last verified 2026-08-03.

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