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 a European venture capital company. RUNA CAPITALRuna open source startup (Ross) Index after 2020.It’s index, which offers a branch update for the fastest growing project in terms of GitHub “STARS” similar to the “like” of social media. In 2023, RUNA started the annual report and emphasized the most popular commercial open source startups in the year.
Last year’s report showed that AI and data infrastructure are leading the demand for open source tooling. Langcaine Hit the pillars of the ROSS index for the 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
2024 is at the top of Ross Index Don’t go upY Combinator alum We have built open source tools (ie, desktops) to execute LLM such as META ‘S LLAMA and DEEPSEEK. Don’t go up GitHub Star Number Increased by about 76,000 to 2024, and 261%increased more than 105,000 people (more than 135,000 stars have risen over the last few months).
Here is a list ZedCross Platform Collaborative Code Editor “It is designed for high performance cooperation with humans and AI.” The ZED project has been around for a while, I only went open sauce January 2024, and the rest of the year 52,000 Github Star.
3rd place Lang GeniusCompany behind the open source LLM app development platform dify. This project has obtained more than 43,000 new ones. Github star This figure, which increased 326% from about 13,000 last year to almost 57,000, surged by more than 84,000.
And there is ComfyuiOpen source node -based program for creating images, videos and audio using the generated AI model. Project GitHub Star Number Last year, 195%to 61,900 stars grew.
Round the top 5 All handsCompany behind the open source platform Open hand Software development agent construction. Openhands won 39,600 GitHubs by the end of 2024 in March, and then added another 12,000 star to the mix.
Last year’s ROSS index shows the explosive growth of AI and LLM, but shows how developer tooling is getting hot in the ZED and LLM world. Astral UV (No. 9) Both appear in the top 10. The presence of PDF manipulation tools elsewhere Sterling PDF (No. 7), financial management software Perhaps finance (8) and remote desktop software Rustdesk (No. 17) suggests that there is still a high demand for personal information -oriented tooling.
And Ether Leeum Block Chain fuel (No. 12) shows that Crypto/Web3 is alive and wearing.
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 operate Open source indexThis is similar to the ROSS index, except that it does not focus on commercial startups but also shows the top 100 projects (provides other ways to filter data).
And Github itself is A List of Supreme Economic ProjectsThere is no specific focus on commercial business.
It is also worth the ball methodology Behind the 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 is it Official open source definition. Therefore, a company that launched software according to the server public license (SSPLfor example),) Open source initiatives have not been louber stamp SSPL as “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.
