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The Most Popular Streamer on Twitch Is Now an AI-Powered Entity

Joe Wilkins

created: Jan. 4, 2026, 4 p.m. | updated: Jan. 14, 2026, 4:04 p.m.

Amidst mostly unfounded fears that artificial intelligence is coming for our jobs, it turns out there’s one gig AI is pretty excellent at: streaming on Twitch. Meet Neuro-sama, a cutesy AI-powered character which is now the top streamer on Twitch by active subscriber-count, according to Twitch Tracker. At the time of writing, Nuero-sama — streaming via the Twitch channel Vedal987 — has 165,268 paid active subscribers, well above the second-highest channel, the human-ran Jynxzi. On Twitch, each paid subscriber is valued at $5 a month, some of which is split with Twitch. Over the past few years, content creators known as VTubers have taken Twitch by storm.

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