The 20 hottest open source startups of 2024

A new report has shown 20 top-tranding open source startups around the world, with more than half of which are closely integrated with AI.

The report is the intervention European Venture Capital Farm RunaWhich Runa operates Open Source Startup (Juice) Index Since 2020The The index serves quarterly updates on rapid growing projects in the field of githab “stars”-a metric that is like “like” on social media. Started in 2023, Runa started Produce annual reportsHighlighting the most popular commercial open source startups in a certain year.

The report of the past year AI and data infrastructure have been displayed Open Source was driving for tooling, Langchain To create LLM-centric applications to hurry the pole position to the juice index for its open source framework.

This year it is a similar story, the central AI in the top 20 organizations.

It is noteworthy that the juice index is heavily equipped and does not include any old open source project. Qualification projects must be closely connected to a commercial organization (eg, a seller -led project), which means no side project. In addition, these companies must be younger than 10 years of age; Raising less than $ 100 million for funds; And be completely independent – so no auxiliary agency or publicly listed.

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2024 is in the top spot of the juice index OlamaA Wi -combinator Anecdote It has created an open source equipment to run like LLM Meta And Dipsc Locally (ie desktop). Olama Github star counts By 2021, 000 76,3 has increased by 222% increased by more than 5,7 (it has increased over the past few months over the last few months).

If the list is next Z IndustriesA cross platform Associate code editor “Designed to cooperate with high-performance with people and AI.” Zed project was for a while, but it Only Open Source went In January 2024 and the rest of the year it gains more 52,000 github starThe

Is in the third place LangzeniusAn Open Source LLM App is the backward agency on the development platform DistinctionThe The project has earned more than 43,000 new Github stars Last year, about 13,000 to 57,000 has increased from about 57,000 – this is an image that has become more than 5,7 stars.

And then there is ComfueiAn open source node-based program to produce images, videos and audio using generators AI models. Project Github star counts Last year 195% increased to 61,900 stars.

The top five are rounded All the handsAn organization behind an open source platform Open -handed For the software development agent building. OpenHands earned 39,600 Github star from its introduction in late March 2021, and then added 12,000 stars to a mixture.

Last year’s juice indicators point out the explosive growth in AI and LLMs, also shows how developer equipment is still hot in the world of Open Source, including Z and its preferences Astral’s UV (No. 9) Both are featured in top 10. Elsewhere, the presence of PDF manipulation equipment Stilling PDF (No. 7), Finance Management Software May be finance (No. 8), and remote desktop software Rustdesk (No. 17) suggests that privacy-centered self-hostable tooling is still in high demand.

And etherium blockchain-centric Fuel (No. 12) shows that Crypto/Web 3 is alive and kicking.

Open source software has always been distributed by the nature of the software, the contributors to all corners of the world may be involved in it. This is often the case with the seller -led projects; However, commercial entities usually have some centers of gravity – even if that means only it has been formally included.

Last year’s juice index shows that San Francisco is six of the top 20 juice startups, and three in Canada and three of Europe (UK, Switzerland, Hungary and Czech Republic), Singapore and China.

Manner

There are other ways to track the “hot” open source projects. Conducts two Sigma Ventures Open source indexThis is the same in concept with the juice index, it shows the top 100 projects without specific focus on commercial startups (it also provides different ways to filter data).

And Github itself is an offer Top trending projects listAgain without a specific focus on the commercial business.

It is also worth seeing Manner The juice is behind the index. Github “stars” can be an incomplete metric, as it simply shows that someone has “prefer” the project against the project actively using or monitoring the project. Old projects will naturally collect “stars”, which is why Runa focuses on relative growth of the storage during 90 days for his quarterly report and focus on the perfect number of new stars obtained during the year for annual reports.

This means that the annual report can look quite different than the quarterly report, given that the absolute star calculations do not always combine with the type of relative-growth.

The “Open Source” is classified as it may also have some problems around. Although many projects on the list have been truly published under a recognized Copileft or License LicenseThis is not a strict condition of the juice index. Runa says that it adheres to the “commercial perception” of Open Source, rather than Official Open Source DefinitionThe Eg, an organization that has published its software under the Server Side Public License (SSPL), For example, will still qualify as Open Source, although Open Source Initiative is not Rubrastamd As SSPL “Open Source”.

Nevertheless, not only is the index trending the open source technology, but companies are trying to create business on them is also a useful index.