What I learned from looking at 900 most popular open source AI tools

Chip Huyen · 2 years ago · 48

A researcher analyzed 896 open source repositories related to generative AI and foundation models on GitHub, categorizing them into infrastructure, model development, and application development layers. The analysis found that 845 software repositories have been created by 594 unique GitHub accounts, with 23% hosted by just 20 top accounts that collectively earned 1.65 million stars, and over 20,000 developers contributed nearly 1 million commits to these projects. The findings show rapid growth in application development tools in 2023, the emergence of individual developers as major contributors especially in applications, and a distinct Chinese AI ecosystem diverging from the Western one with 6 of the top 20 accounts originating from China.