Why we started this

Let's be real — the world doesn't need another AI community. There are already thousands of Discord servers, Slack groups, and LinkedIn circles talking about AI. So why did we start United by AI?

Because most of them are broken.

Here's what we kept seeing: communities that were really just marketing channels for someone's course. "Networking events" where everyone's trying to sell something. Endless threads about the latest ChatGPT prompt hack, but nobody actually building anything.

We wanted something different. A place where people actually show up — in person — and work on stuff together. Where the bar for entry isn't "pay for this membership" but "are you building something interesting?"

The name says it all: United by AI. Not "AI United" or "The AI Club." We're people first, brought together by this shared obsession with what AI can do.

We started in Chennai because that's where we are. Mahesh and I have been building AI products for years, and we kept meeting incredible people at random coffee shops and coworking spaces. Engineers who'd built production LLM systems. Designers rethinking interfaces for AI. Researchers publishing papers. But they didn't know each other.

So we started hosting build nights. Just a room, some laptops, and a rule: work on something, help others, leave with more than you came with.

Twelve events later, we have 500+ people in the Discord. Companies reaching out to hire from our community. API credits from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google for members who are building.

But here's the thing — we're just getting started. The goal isn't to be the biggest AI community in India. It's to be the one where actual stuff gets built. Where you can walk into a room and find someone who's solved the exact problem you're stuck on. Where the next great AI product might be sketched on a whiteboard during a build night.

If that sounds like your kind of place, come hang out. We're just a bunch of people who like building stuff — and we think you might too.