Independent communities. Useful work.

Communities you should know about.

A curated guide to third-party communities doing useful work for AI builders. Each community operates independently.

Communities you should know about

Independent groups creating useful spaces for AI builders to meet, learn and ship across the region.

AAIF Community Singapore

AAIF Community Singapore is the local organizer community for the Agentic AI Foundation's open, vendor-neutral ecosystem around agent standards and interoperability.

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AI After Hours KL

AI After Hours KL is an after-work learning community where people explore AI tools together through beginner-friendly, hands-on sessions.

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AI HackerDorm

AI HackerDorm is a student-first Malaysian AI builder community that runs recurring build sessions, campus programmes and hackathons so students get repeated practice shipping technical work.

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AI Salon

AI Salon is an international chapter network for conversations among AI builders, founders, researchers, investors and ecosystem participants, with each chapter organizing its own local programming.

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AI Tinkerers

AI Tinkerers is a global network of locally organized meetups where technical builders demonstrate and discuss practical work with foundation models and generative AI.

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Beyond the Vibes

Beyond the Vibes is a Singapore technical community focused on taking AI work beyond demos and prompts into maintainable, production-oriented practice through build sessions and architecture discussions.

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Build Club

Build Club is a global learning and builder community for people developing practical AI products together, with locally run programmes across its international network.

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Build With AI Malaysia

Build With AI Malaysia helps non-technical and technical participants turn ideas into working AI products through workshops, build sessions, hackathons and a manually curated project showcase.

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Builders & Brews

Builders & Brews is a relaxed technical meetup series co-hosted by Nebius and Tavily, combining coffee, peer conversation and hands-on AI building.

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Claw Collective

Claw Collective is an independent Kuala Lumpur builder community for personal AI agents. It emerged from earlier OpenClaw KL meetups but now operates under its own identity and is not an OpenClaw chapter.

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Code Beavers

Code Beavers is a Vietnam developer community running frequent coding meetups, workshops and coffee-and-code sessions in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

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CoderPuffs

CoderPuffs

CoderPuffs is a women-first Kuala Lumpur coding community that runs friendly cafe-based meetups for people learning and building with software and AI across different experience levels.

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Codex Malaysia Community

Codex Malaysia Community is an independent local community where Malaysian developers and AI builders learn, test and ship with OpenAI Codex.

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Cursor Community

Cursor's community programme supports locally organized developer meetups, cafes and hackathons around AI-assisted software building.

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DataScience SG

DataScience SG is a long-running Singapore community for learning and exchanging practical knowledge across data analytics, data science and AI.

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Decoding Data Science

Decoding Data Science is a global AI and data learning community that runs technical challenges, bootcamps, guilds and residency-style programmes.

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GenAI Fund

GenAI Fund is an ASEAN-focused AI venture fund that also operates regional builder programmes, meetups, hackathons and ecosystem initiatives.

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Learnly Society

Learnly Society is an Indonesian lifelong-learning and facilitation community that runs collaborative workshops around digital tools, education and practical AI product building.

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Lorong AI

Lorong AI is a Singapore AI co-working and community hub that brings government, industry and research participants together around AI for public good through co-working, technical talks, tool sessions and community-run events.

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LotusHacks

LotusHacks is a Vietnam-based hackathon and builder platform focused on applied AI and social-impact problem solving through intensive regional build programmes.

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Malaysian.AI

Malaysian.AI is a public home for Malaysia's AI-builder ecosystem, connecting community events, projects and the Malaysian AI Residency while preserving the identities of the independent communities it highlights.

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n8n Community Events

n8n Community Events is the official global programme for locally hosted workshops and meetups around workflow automation and AI agents.

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OpenClaw Jakarta

OpenClaw Jakarta is a locally hosted meetup community for Jakarta builders exploring OpenClaw and personal AI agents.

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OpenClaw Vietnam

OpenClaw Vietnam is a local Ho Chi Minh City meetup community for builders exploring OpenClaw and personal AI agents.

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Supabase Community Events

Supabase Community Events is the official meetup programme for local developers to learn, speak and build with Supabase.

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Superteam

Superteam is a network of local communities helping people build and work in the Solana ecosystem through events, bounties, grants and founder programmes.

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Techies APAC

Techies APAC is an engineer-led community for candid conversations about real systems, architecture choices and production failures through formats such as Roast My Tech Stack and Prod is DOWN!!!.

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The Collective

The Collective is a Singapore community for student founders, connecting early teams with peers, mentors, events and startup opportunities.

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Vibe Coders SG

Vibe Coders SG is a Singapore community for people building software with AI-assisted tools through demo nights, workshops and practical peer sharing.

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