According to the new report, it shows the world’s top open source startups around the world, more than half of them are closely related to AI.
This report is a handicraft of RUNA Capital, a European venture capital company that has operated the RUNA OpenSour Startup (RUNA OpenSour Startup) index since 2020. This index is the fastest growing project in terms of GitHub “Stars”, similar to social media’s “likes”. Provide updates. In 2023, RUNA started the annual report and emphasized the most popular commercial open source startups in the year.
According to last year’s report, AI and data infrastructure are leading the demand for open source tooling, and Langchain has been hit by a play of ROSS Index for an open source framework to build an LLM -centric app.
This year, AI is a similar story that is the center of 11 of the top 20 companies.
It is worth noting that the Ross Index has been greatly selected and does not include old open source projects. Qualification projects must be closely linked to commercial companies (eg suppliers -led projects). In addition, these companies must be under 10 years old. Funds of less than $ 100 million; And because it should be entirely independent, it is not listed publicly or publicly.
Star Crab Jing
The top point of the 2024 Ross Index is Ollama, a Y combinator alum that built an open source tool (ie, desktop) to run LLM such as META ‘S LLAMA and DeepSeek. The number of Github stars in ollama increased by 261% to more than 105,000 people by about 76,000 (more than 135,000 stars) in the last few months.
Next, Zed Industries, a Cross-Platform Collaborative Code editor, is designed for high-performance cooperation with humans and AI. The ZED project has been around for a while, but only open source in January 2024 and has gained more than 52,000 GitHub stars in the other year.
The third place is Langgenius, a company of an open source LLM app development platform called Dify. The project achieved more than 43,000 new GitHub stars last year, up 326% from about 13,000 to almost 57,000.
Then there is an open source node -based program for creating images, videos and audio using the generated AI model. The number of Github stars in the project recorded 61,900 stars, up 195% last year.
Finishing the top five is all hands. Openhands won 39,600 GitHubs by the end of 2024 in March, and then added another 12,000 star to the mix.
Last year, the ROSS index shows the explosive growth of AI and LLM, but developer tooling, such as ZED and Astral’s UV (No. 9), still appears in the 10th place. Privacy -centered own hospitable tooling still has high demand.
And Ether Leeum Block Chain -centered fuel (No. 12) shows that Crypto/Web3 is alive and kicked.
Considering that all corners of the earth can participate, the open source software of its essence has always been distributed. This is often the case of suppliers -led projects. However, commercial entities generally have some center. Even if it means only the officially integrated position.
Last year, ROSS Index has six of the top 20 ROSS new companies with San Francisco, three in Canada, Europe (UK, Switzerland, Hungary and Czech Republic), Singapore and China.
methodology
There is another way to track the “Hot” open source project. Two Sigma Ventures operates an open source index, which is similar to the ROSS index, except for showing the top 100 projects without a specific focus on commercial new companies (provides a variety of ways to filter data).
And GitHub itself provides a list of top economic projects without a specific focus on commercial business.
It is also worth looking at the methodology of Ross Index. Github “Stars” can be an incomplete indicator because it shows that someone has “good” the project, unlike someone who uses or monitors a project. Since the old project has naturally gained more “stars”, RUNA focuses on the absolute number of new stars for the relative growth of the repository for 90 days for the quarterly report.
This also means that the annual report may be quite different from the quarterly report in that the absolute number of stars does not always match the fast -paced growth pattern.
There may be some problems with the content classified as “open source”. Many projects on the list were released in accordance with the actually recognized copyleft or allowed open source license, but it is not a strict regulation of the ROSS index. RUNA says that it complys with the “commercial perception” of the open source rather than the official open source definition. Therefore, even though the open source initiative did not stamp SSPL as an “open source”, the company that launched the software according to the server -side public license (SSPL) is still qualified as an open source.
Nevertheless, the index is a useful indicator of what kind of open source technology is popular, but also the company is trying to build a business.
