Medium “AI” tag statistics
How busy the AI tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is very high, and the tag is mixed for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 800 stories from the last 1.6 days
Busier than 97% of 73 tracked tags
27% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 514 stories a day, AI is busier than 97% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (3,546 followers per daily story) is higher than 12% of tags — fewer readers per story than average.
60% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 27% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 34% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 6.8 minutes to read.
Publications that publish AI stories
| Publication | Followers | AI stories (last 1.6d) |
|---|---|---|
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 33 |
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 29 |
| Towards AI | 151K | 22 |
| Level Up Coding | 367K | 22 |
| UX Collective | 637K | 22 |
| CodeToDeploy | 6.8K | 19 |
| Models to Systems | 9 | 18 |
| Artificial Intelligence in Plain English | 50K | 17 |
| Bootcamp | 115K | 14 |
| JavaScript in Plain English | 182K | 13 |
Top AI stories right now
- The Only Rare Skills You Need Right Now as AI Destroys Careers
- The Terrifying Reason the AI Bubble Cannot Stop Inflating Until It Bursts
- Little Things I Refuse to Give Up
- AI Is My Trading Assistant, Not My Signal Provider
- AI Isn’t Just Answering Anymore. It’s Doing the Work.
- The American DeepSeek Is Here, and It Just Beat Opus 5 on a Viral Test
- Most People Think AI Is Overhyped. They Have No Idea What’s Coming.
- AI is Getting Ugly(er)
- Excuse Me, Miss — Your AI Is Showing
- ChatGPT Is Turning Your AI Images Into Ad Space.
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the AI tag on Medium?
- About 514 per day (3,595 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 1.6-day window before our last scan. The tag has 544,160 stories in total.
- Is the AI tag competitive?
- Competition is very high: it is busier than 97% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 3,546 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in AI?
- 27% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is mixed for newcomers. 60% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.