The open source AI ecosystem is rapidly evolving, with projects gaining thousands of stars daily. This comprehensive leaderboard tracks the most popular AI open source projects on GitHub, providing insights into community growth, contributor engagement, and emerging trends in the AI development landscape.
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Updated weekly, this leaderboard showcases everything from foundational frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow to cutting-edge LLM โ as explored in the intelligence factory race between AI labs โ s like LLaMA and innovative tools like LangChain.
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margin-bottom: 2rem;">The open source AI ecosystem is rapidly evolving, with projects gaining thousands of stars daily. This comprehensive leaderboard tracks the most popular AI open source projects on GitHub, providing insights into community growth, contributor engagement, and emerging trends in the AI development landscape.
Updated weekly, this leaderboard showcases everything from foundational frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow to cutting-edge LLM โ as explored in the intelligence factory race between AI labs โ s like LLaMA and innovative tools like LangChain. Whether you’re a developer, researcher, or AI enthusiast, this ranking helps you discover the projects shaping the future of artificial intelligence.
๐ AI Open Source Projects Leaderboard
The Most Popular AI Projects on GitHub – Updated Weekly
2.5M+
Total Stars
45K+
Active Contributors
380K
Weekly Downloads
18
Projects Over 100Kโญ
RANK
PROJECT
STARS
CONTRIB.
FORKS
TREND
#1
๐ฆllama (Meta)
โญ 68.5K
385
12.3K
๐ฅ
#2
๐จstable-diffusion
โญ 71.2K
213
14.8K
๐
#3
๐langchain
โญ 98.4K
2,845
15.7K
๐ฅ
#4
๐คtransformers
โญ 137K
2,634
27.2K
๐ฅ
#5
๐งpytorch
โญ 84.7K
4,986
22.8K
๐
#6
๐ง tensorflow
โญ 186K
4,245
74.2K
๐
#7
๐ฆwhisper (OpenAI)
โญ 72.3K
148
8.5K
โก
#8
๐ญAUTOMATIC1111
โญ 144K
587
27.1K
๐
#9
๐๏ธollama
โญ 105K
658
8.3K
๐ฅ
#10
๐ฆComfyUI
โญ 58.4K
398
6.2K
๐ฅ
#11
๐vllm
โญ 30.2K
543
4.5K
๐ฅ
#12
๐ฒpinecone-python
โญ 2.8K
45
312
โก
#13
๐จdiffusers
โญ 26.8K
583
5.5K
๐
#14
๐gradio
โญ 34.7K
297
2.6K
๐
#15
โกfastai
โญ 26.3K
651
7.5K
๐
#16
๐ฌscikit-learn
โญ 60.2K
3,118
25.4K
๐
#17
๐ฏYOLO (ultralytics)
โญ 32.8K
156
6.2K
โก
#18
๐jax
โญ 30.8K
678
2.8K
๐
#19
๐ฎgymnasium
โญ 7.2K
145
912
โก
#20
๐กlit (Lightning AI)
โญ 6.8K
89
542
โก
#21
๐ธ๏ธweaviate
โญ 11.8K
124
812
โก
#22
๐จchroma
โญ 15.6K
137
1.3K
๐ฅ
#23
๐mlflow
โญ 18.9K
743
4.3K
๐
#24
๐ฆdatasets (HF)
โญ 19.5K
345
2.7K
๐
#25
๐ญDeepSeek-Coder
โญ 7.1K
32
512
๐ฅ
#26
๐ชcircus (Anthropic)
โญ 3.4K
27
187
โก
#27
๐openai-python
โญ 23.4K
78
3.2K
๐
#28
๐คgpt4all
โญ 71.3K
132
7.8K
๐
#29
๐ฌChatGLM
โญ 41.2K
87
5.6K
๐
#30
๐ฆ Qwen
โญ 14.7K
112
1.2K
๐ฅ
#31
๐ฆmixtral
โญ 9.3K
45
735
โก
#32
๐ฏautogen (Microsoft)
โญ 34.7K
421
5.0K
๐ฅ
#33
๐ฆพCrewAI
โญ 22.8K
189
3.1K
๐ฅ
#34
๐ฒguidance
โญ 19.8K
67
1.0K
โก
#35
๐ฎinstructor
โญ 8.3K
93
656
๐ฅ
#36
๐semantic-kernel
โญ 22.1K
234
3.2K
๐
#37
๐งฉllama-index
โญ 37.2K
1,124
5.2K
๐ฅ
#38
๐ชstreamlit
โญ 36.1K
234
3.1K
๐
#39
๐๏ธdspy
โญ 19.8K
123
1.6K
๐ฅ
#40
โกlitellm
โญ 13.7K
312
1.6K
๐ฅ
#41
๐marvin
โญ 5.3K
42
267
โก
#42
๐ ๏ธpydantic-ai
โญ 4.1K
28
198
๐ฅ
#43
๐ฏpromptfoo
โญ 5.2K
87
385
โก
#44
๐embedchain
โญ 2.2K
89
346
๐
#45
๐langfuse
โญ 6.9K
112
683
๐ฅ
#46
๐ชphidata
โญ 12.4K
47
1.8K
๐ฅ
#47
๐๏ธhaystack
โญ 17.8K
245
2.0K
๐
#48
๐ธopenllm
โญ 10.1K
34
634
๐
#49
๐unsloth
โญ 18.9K
23
1.3K
๐ฅ
#50
๐ญmem0
โญ 24.3K
81
2.2K
๐ฅ
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