Best AI Telegram Channels to Follow in 2026

I picked the 10 best AI Telegram channels worth following in 2026 — from mass-market tech news to hardcore ML engineering, all in one list.

The list

Техномотель

With 2.3 million subscribers, Техномотель is the undisputed heavyweight of Russian-language tech Telegram. It covers AI news the way a good tech blog should — fast, opinionated, no press-release padding. If something big drops in the AI world, these guys will have it before your morning coffee cools down. The sheer audience size means the editorial bar is actually high; low-effort posts get ratio'd hard.

Технолавка

Технолавка sits at 1.4 million and leans slightly more consumer-facing than its sibling channels — think "here's a new AI tool you can actually use today" rather than deep research dives. Great for staying current on product launches, app updates, and the occasional hot take on where the industry is heading. Solid signal-to-noise ratio for a channel this size.

AI Post — Artificial Intelligence

At 831K subscribers, AI Post is one of the few channels that genuinely earns the "Artificial Intelligence" subtitle in its name. It covers model releases, benchmark drama, research papers, and startup funding rounds without dumbing things down too much. I'd call it the Reuters of AI Telegram — not flashy, but reliable and consistent. Good first stop if you want a broad daily briefing.

Алексей Шевцов

364K followers for a personal channel is a real number, and Алексей earns it. This is a practitioner's perspective — someone who actually builds with AI tools and shares what works, what's overhyped, and what's quietly becoming indispensable. The personal voice makes it stand out in a sea of aggregator bots. If you want one human's honest take rather than a curated feed, subscribe here.

Machinelearning

This is the channel for people who read arXiv for fun. At 303K subscribers, Machinelearning goes deep on ML engineering, big data pipelines, and research — less "ChatGPT released a new feature" and more "here's why the attention mechanism in this new architecture is interesting." Not for everyone, but if you have a technical background and want substance over hype, this is your channel.

ТЕХНО: Яндекс про технологии

Yes, it's an official corporate channel — Yandex talking about Yandex tech. At 200K subscribers, it's obviously not neutral, but Yandex is genuinely one of the most interesting AI companies outside the US-UK axis, and their engineering blog content is legitimately good. Updates on Alice, YandexGPT, and internal infrastructure are worth tracking if you care about the non-OpenAI slice of the AI world.

SimpDungeon☠️

SimpDungeon is the wildcard on this list. 150K subscribers, a skull emoji in the name, and a tone that's decidedly not corporate. It covers AI tools, generative media, and the weirder corners of the space with a voice that's refreshingly unfiltered. If every other channel on this list feels too polished, this one will fix that. Chaotic good energy, genuinely entertaining, occasionally actually useful.

Алиса, что нового?

The official channel for Yandex's Alice assistant, sitting at 140K subscribers. Narrower scope than the main Yandex tech channel — this is specifically about Alice's new features, integrations, and use cases. If you're building on top of Alice or just use it daily, this is the obvious follow. Otherwise it's a useful window into how a major voice AI product evolves in a non-English market.

эйай ньюз

эйай ньюз ("AI News" transliterated) does exactly what it says at 93K subscribers — rapid-fire AI news updates, tool drops, and model announcements. The format is punchy and the cadence is high. It's not trying to be a think-piece outlet; it's a news ticker for the AI space. I use channels like this as a first-pass filter before going deeper on anything that actually matters.

Data Secrets

Data Secrets rounds out the list at 90K subscribers with a focus on the data side of AI — datasets, data engineering, analytics, and the infrastructure that makes ML actually work in production. It's a niche that gets underserved by the flashier model-release channels, and this one fills it well. If your job involves wrangling data rather than just consuming AI outputs, this channel speaks your language.

How to find more

This list covers the highlights, but there are plenty more channels worth exploring. Browse the full AI category on tgden.com for a deeper catalog. If you're also interested in the engineering side of things, the Dev category has strong overlap with the ML and data channels above.