Update (Feb 2026): The full list of open source AI repos is hosted at Good AI List, updated daily. It’s balooned to 15K repos, and you can submit missing repos. You can also find some of them on my cool-llm-repos list on GitHub.
Four years ago, I did an analysis of the open source ML ecosystem. Since then, the landscape has changed, so I revisited the topic. This time, I focused exclusively on the stack around foundation models.
I searched GitHub using the keywords gpt, llm, and generative ai. If AI feels so overwhelming right now, it’s because it is. There are 118K results for gpt alone.
To make my life easier, I limited my search to the repos with at least 500 stars. There were 590 results for llm, 531 for gpt, and 38 for generative ai. I also occasionally checked GitHub trending and social media for new repos.
Source: Chip Huyen — Read the full article on the original site ↗