PANews reported on March 27 that according to the 2024 Runa Open Source Startup Index (ROSS Index) report released by Runa Capital, a European venture capital firm, more than half of the top 20 global open-source startups are closely related to AI. The index uses GitHub "star" growth as a measurement standard, aiming to track the growth trends of commercial open-source projects.
Ollama, ranked first, is a Y Combinator-backed company that provides tools for running large language models (LLM) locally, with GitHub star growth of 76,000, totaling over 135,000. Zed Industries is second, with its cross-platform collaborative code editor rapidly gaining 52,000 stars after open-sourcing in 2024. LangGenius, ranked third, developed the LLM application platform Dify, with an annual growth rate of 326% and total stars exceeding 84,000. Additionally, ComfyUI and All Hands made it to the top five with generative AI tools and developer agent platforms, respectively.
The report also shows that while AI and LLM continue to dominate, developer tools and self-hosted privacy protection tools are also receiving significant attention. For example, Zed, Stirling PDF, and RustDesk have all entered the top ten. The blockchain project Fuel also demonstrates the continued vitality of the crypto field.
