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Open Source AI Tools & Projects Directory

Discover 108 open source AI tools across 1 categories. Start with what each tool does, then use current activity, maintenance signals, and source freshness when you need a deeper comparison.

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ollama
Get up and running with Kimi-K2.6, GLM-5.2, MiniMax, DeepSeek, gpt-oss, Qwen, Gemma and other models.
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⚡ Inference177.0K+450Strong90/100Go5d ago
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prompts.chat
f.k.a. Awesome ChatGPT Prompts. Share, discover, and collect prompts from the community. Free and open source — self-host for your organization with complete privacy.
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⚡ Inference166.4K+4.2KHealthy77/100HTML5d ago
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llama.cpp
LLM inference in C/C++
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⚡ Inference121.7K+12.1KStrong100/100C++5d ago
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caveman
🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman
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⚡ Inference93.3K+33.7KHealthy78/100JavaScript6d ago
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vllm
A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs
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⚡ Inference87.3K+606Strong88/100Python5d ago
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llm-course
Course to get into Large Language Models (LLMs) with roadmaps and Colab notebooks.
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⚡ Inference81.3K+2.1KWatch50/100-5mo ago
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Pi Mono
AI agent toolkit: unified LLM API, agent loop, TUI, coding agent CLI
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⚡ Inference75.4K+27.2KStrong95/100TypeScript10d ago
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Llamafactory
Unified Efficient Fine-Tuning of 100+ LLMs & VLMs (ACL 2024)
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⚡ Inference73.5K+2.3KHealthy77/100Python15d ago
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Trendradar
⭐AI-driven public opinion & trend monitor with multi-platform aggregation, RSS, and smart alerts.🎯 告别信息过载,你的 AI 舆情监控助手与热点筛选工具!聚合多平台热点 + RSS 订阅,支持关键词精准筛选。AI 智能筛选新闻 + AI 翻译 + AI 分析简报直推手机,也支持接入 MCP 架构,赋能 AI 自然语言对话分析、情感洞察与趋势预测等。支持 Docker ,数据本地/云端自持。集成微信/飞书/钉钉/Telegram/邮件/ntfy/bark/slack 等渠道智能推送。
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⚡ Inference60.8K+3.5KWatch58/100Python15d ago
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Context7
Context7 Platform -- Up-to-date code documentation for LLMs and AI code editors
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⚡ Inference59.6K+4.5KStrong82/100TypeScript10d ago
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Mempalace
The best-benchmarked open-source AI memory system. And it's free.
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⚡ Inference57.6K+5.6KStrong98/100Python10d ago
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LocalAI
LocalAI is the open-source AI engine. Run any model - LLMs, vision, voice, image, video - on any hardware. No GPU required.
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⚡ Inference46.2K+130Strong86/100Go2mo ago
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Milvus
Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search
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⚡ Inference45.3K+1.1KStrong95/100Go10d ago
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Kong
🦍 The API and AI Gateway
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⚡ Inference43.8K+472Healthy63/100Lua10d ago
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New Api
A unified AI model hub for aggregation & distribution. It supports cross-converting various LLMs into OpenAI-compatible, Claude-compatible, or Gemini-compatible formats. A centralized gateway for personal and enterprise model management. 🍥
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⚡ Inference43.1K+10.6KStrong92/100TypeScript10d ago
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Jan
Jan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer.
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⚡ Inference42.5K+88Healthy78/100TypeScript2mo ago
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Lightrag
[EMNLP2025] "LightRAG: Simple and Fast Retrieval-Augmented Generation"
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⚡ Inference38.0K+3.0KStrong98/100Python10d ago
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Graphrag
A modular graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system
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⚡ Inference34.8K+1.8KHealthy74/100Python12d ago
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Self Llm
《开源大模型食用指南》针对中国宝宝量身打造的基于Linux环境快速微调(全参数/Lora)、部署国内外开源大模型(LLM)/多模态大模型(MLLM)教程
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⚡ Inference31.4K+1.0KWatch57/100Jupyter Notebook17d ago
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Sglang
SGLang is a high-performance serving framework for large language models and multimodal models.
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⚡ Inference30.6K+3.0KStrong90/100Python10d ago
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Llmfit
Hundreds of models & providers. One command to find what runs on your hardware.
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⚡ Inference30.4K+4.6KStrong95/100Rust10d ago
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Void
Description not yet verified.
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⚡ Inference28.9K+132Watch52/100TypeScript1mo ago
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Scrapegraph Ai
Python scraper based on AI
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⚡ Inference28.6K+3.6KHealthy79/100Python12d ago
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Awesome Generative Ai Guide
A one stop repository for generative AI research updates, interview resources, notebooks and much more!
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⚡ Inference28.4K+1.7KHealthy60/100HTML11d ago
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Gitleaks
Find secrets with Gitleaks 🔑
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⚡ Inference28.2K+1.4KWatch53/100Go10d ago
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Free Llm Api Resources
A list of free LLM inference resources accessible via API.
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⚡ Inference27.7K+6.5KWatch50/100Python10d ago
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Hands On Large Language Models
Official code repo for the O'Reilly Book - "Hands-On Large Language Models"
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⚡ Inference27.7K+1.5KWatch52/100Jupyter Notebook3mo ago
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Code Review Graph
Local-first code intelligence graph for MCP and CLI. Builds a persistent map of your codebase so AI coding tools read only what matters, with benchmarked context reductions on reviews and large-repo workflows.
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⚡ Inference26.8K+10.6KStrong95/100Python5d ago
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Heretic
Fully automatic censorship removal for language models
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⚡ Inference26.6K+5.9KHealthy71/100Python10d ago
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Llm Action
本项目旨在分享大模型相关技术原理以及实战经验(大模型工程化、大模型应用落地)
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⚡ Inference24.8K+524Watch49/100HTML13d ago
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llamafile
Distribute and run LLMs with a single file.
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⚡ Inference24.4K+44Healthy62/100C++2mo ago
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Airllm
AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU
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⚡ Inference24.1K+6.4KHealthy60/100Jupyter Notebook9d ago
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Awesome Chinese LLM
整理开源的中文大语言模型,以规模较小、可私有化部署、训练成本较低的模型为主,包括底座模型,垂直领域微调及应用,数据集与教程等。
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⚡ Inference22.7K+127Watch54/100-2mo ago
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MLC LLM
Universal LLM Deployment Engine with ML Compilation
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⚡ Inference22.6K+36Healthy62/100Python2mo ago
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Skyvern
Automate browser based workflows with AI
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⚡ Inference22.6K+983Strong86/100Python10d ago
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Unilm
Large-scale Self-supervised Pre-training Across Tasks, Languages, and Modalities
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⚡ Inference22.2K+52Watch54/100Python6mo ago
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Nemoclaw
Run agents like Hermes, LangChain Deep Agents, and OpenClaw more securely inside NVIDIA OpenShell with managed inference
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⚡ Inference22.0K+1.7KStrong91/100TypeScript5d ago
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Datasets
🤗 The largest hub of ready-to-use datasets for AI models with fast, easy-to-use and efficient data manipulation tools
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⚡ Inference21.7K+233Healthy72/100Python10d ago
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Qwen
The official repo of Qwen (通义千问) chat & pretrained large language model proposed by Alibaba Cloud.
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⚡ Inference21.5K+349Healthy63/100Python4mo ago
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Peft
🤗 PEFT: State-of-the-art Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning.
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⚡ Inference21.4K+337Healthy75/100Python10d ago
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Dyad
Local, open-source AI app builder for power users ✨ v0 / Lovable / Replit / Bolt alternative 🌟 Star if you like it!
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⚡ Inference21.1K+738Strong93/100TypeScript6d ago
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Llama Cookbook
Welcome to the Llama Cookbook! This is your go to guide for Building with Llama: Getting started with Inference, Fine-Tuning, RAG. We also show you how to solve end to end problems using Llama model family and using them on various provider services
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⚡ Inference18.5K+212Watch53/100Jupyter Notebook2mo ago
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Ml Engineering
Machine Learning Engineering Open Book
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⚡ Inference18.5K+569Watch57/100Python10d ago
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Web Llm
High-performance In-browser LLM Inference Engine
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⚡ Inference18.5K+506Watch58/100TypeScript1mo ago
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Qbot
[🔥updating ...] AI 自动量化交易机器人(完全本地部署) AI-powered Quantitative Investment Research Platform. 📃 online docs: https://ufund-me.github.io/Qbot ✨ :news: qbot-mini: https://github.com/Charmve/iQuant
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⚡ Inference18.2K+895Watch49/100Jupyter Notebook4mo ago
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RWKV LM
RWKV (pronounced RwaKuv) is an RNN with great LLM performance, which can also be directly trained like a GPT transformer (parallelizable). We are at RWKV-7 "Goose". So it's combining the best of RNN and transformer - great performance, linear time, constant space (no kv-cache), fast training, infinite ctx_len, and free sentence embedding.
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⚡ Inference14.5K0Caution23/100Python2mo ago
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Easy Dataset
A powerful tool for creating datasets for LLM fine-tuning 、RAG and Eval
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⚡ Inference14.2K0Watch54/100JavaScript3mo ago
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Outlines
Structured Outputs
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⚡ Inference13.8K0Watch47/100Python2mo ago
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Turbovec
A vector index built on TurboQuant, written in Rust with Python bindings
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⚡ Inference13.7K0Watch42/100Python11d ago
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Omlx
LLM inference server with continuous batching & SSD caching for Apple Silicon — managed from the macOS menu bar
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⚡ Inference13.6K0Healthy75/100Python2mo ago
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What makes an open source AI project worth adopting?+

Start with the use case, then look beyond stars. Recent activity, releases, issue handling, contributor depth, documentation, license, and setup fit all matter. This directory exposes those signals so you can create a shortlist before trying a tool.

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