In 2024, more than half of the top 20 hottest Open Source startups are involved in AI, with encryption projects such as MyShell and Fuel making the list.

PANews March 27 news, according to the 2024 annual Runa Open Source Startup Index (ROSS Index) report released by European venture capital firm Runa Capital, more than half of the top 20 hottest open source startups worldwide are closely related to AI. The index measures growth based on GitHub “stars” and aims to track the growth trends of commercial open source projects. The top rank is held by Ollama, a Y Combinator-backed company that provides tools for running large language models (LLMs) locally, with a GitHub star rise of 76,000, bringing the total to over 135,000. Zed Industries ranks second, its cross-platform collaborative code editor quickly gained 52,000 stars after being open-sourced in 2024. Third place LangGenius developed the LLM application platform Dify, with an annual growth rate of 326%, and its total stars have surpassed 84,000. In addition, ComfyUI and All Hands made it into the top five with generative AI tools and developer agent platforms respectively. The report also shows that although AI and LLM continue to dominate, developer tools and privacy protection self-hosted tools are also gaining attention. For example, Zed, Stirling PDF, and RustDesk all made it into the top ten. Meanwhile, the blockchain project Fuel indicates that the crypto sector is still vibrant.