Medium “Artificial Intelligence” tag statistics
How busy the Artificial Intelligence 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 days
Busier than 99% of 73 tracked tags
32% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 813 stories a day, Artificial Intelligence is busier than 99% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (11,968 followers per daily story) is higher than 23% of tags — fewer readers per story than average.
60% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 32% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 37% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 7.1 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Artificial Intelligence stories
| Publication | Followers | Artificial Intelligence stories (last 1d) |
|---|---|---|
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 77 |
| Towards AI | 151K | 72 |
| Level Up Coding | 367K | 66 |
| Engineering Under Pressure | 673 | 48 |
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 33 |
| Skill Stuff | 1.4K | 27 |
| Python in Plain English | 100K | 26 |
| Artificial Intelligence in Plain English | 50K | 25 |
| Activated Thinker | 40K | 21 |
| Models to Systems | 9 | 19 |
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Top Artificial Intelligence stories right now
- In An Age of AI, Making Art Matters
- The Only Rare Skills You Need Right Now as AI Destroys Careers
- How to Build an AI Content System for Your Online Business
- How to Build an Email Sequence With AI (From Subscriber to Customer)
- The 10.5 Trillion Dollar Threat: The New Cyber Attack Patterns Dominating the Economy
- The Terrifying Reason the AI Bubble Cannot Stop Inflating Until It Bursts
- The Green Transition Is Not Just About Technology—It Is About Who Can Afford It
- The Automatic Rally: What Happens When Sellers Start Losing Control?
- Robots Among Us:
- Wyckoff Distribution Method: Understanding How Smart Money Exit
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Artificial Intelligence tag on Medium?
- About 813 per day (5,689 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 1-day window before our last scan. The tag has 546,907 stories in total.
- Is the Artificial Intelligence tag competitive?
- Competition is very high: it is busier than 99% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 11,968 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Artificial Intelligence?
- 32% 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.