Open source AI has gone from experimental side projects to enterprise adoption in the last 18 months.

DeepSeek’s R1 is pushing the frontier in LLM reasoning, Huggingface and Github repos are exploding with new commits, and startup activity is blooming across observability, monitoring, and dev tools, as the demand for production-grade tooling and infra goes up.

We mapped 80+ promising open source AI players clocking positive traction across alternative datasets like GitHub, Huggingface, and website visits.

Get their funding, founder, and growth details here →