20 startups open source for 2024

A new report displays 20 open source startups from above to all over the world, more than half of them are aligned with artificial intelligence.

The report is manual work European Investment Capital Company Rona CapitalThe company Runa Open Source Startup (RussianIndex Since 2020. The index offers quarterly updates on the fastest growing projects in terms of “GitHub-” is a measure similar to “such” on social media. Starting in 2023, Rona began Annual reports productionHighlighting startups with the most popular commercial sources in a certain year.

Last year’s report Proved that AI and data infrastructure They were leading the demand for open source tools, with Linjshen Bring the pole position in a Russian index for its open source frame to build LLM applications.

It is a similar story this year, with Amnesty International Central to 11 of the 20 best companies.

It should be noted that the Russian index has been greatly coordinated and does not include any open source project. The qualified projects must be closely related to a commercial company (i.e. a project led by the seller), and this means that there are no side projects. In addition, the age of these companies should be less than 10 years; It raised less than $ 100 million in financing; Be completely independent – so it is not a subsidiary or publicly listed.

Stars

In the first place in the Ross 2024 index BoysY combinator alum It is designed an open source tool to run LLMS like Llama Meta and Dibsic Locally (i.e. desktop). Boys The number of the star of Jabbap It increased by about 76,000 to 2024, increasing by 261 % to more than 105,000 (since then has increased to more than 135,000 stars over the past few months).

Next in the list is Zed IndustriesDisplay platform Cooperative symbol editor “Designed for High Performance Cooperation with Humans and AI.” The Zed project was present for a while, but it is Just the source is open In January 2024, during the rest of the year, it gained more than 52000 stars Jetb.

In third place LinniniusThe company is behind the open source LLM application development platform called difference. The project has achieved more than 43,000 new Jetbab stars Last year, 326 % grow from about 13,000 to approximately 57,000 – the number that has since increased to more than 84,000 stars.

Then there ComfyuiAn open source of knots program for creating images, videos and sound clips using artificial intelligence models. Project The number of the star of Jabbap 195 % grew to 61,900 stars last year.

The first five approximation is All handsThe company is behind an open source platform called OpenHands To build software development agents. OpenHands has received 39,600 stars GitHub from its launch last March until the end of 2024 and from then has added 12,000 stars to this mix.

While the Russian index for the past year shows explosive growth in artificial intelligence and LLMS, it also explains how developers are still hot in the open source world, with the likes of Zed and Astral’s UV (No. 9) Both appear at the top 10. In another place, the presence of a PDF processor Sterling PDF (No. 7), Finance Management Program Perhaps funding (No. 8), and the distant desktop program RUSTDESK (No. 17) indicates that the tools that focus on self -focus are still in demand.

And ethereum Blockchain focuses fuel (No. 12) It shows that the web3 encryption is alive and kicking.

Open source programs have always been distributed by their nature, given that shareholders of all corners of the world can participate. This is often the case for the projects led by sellers as well; However, commercial entities usually have the center of gravity – even if it only means where it was formally combined.

The Russian index for last year shows that San Francisco is the home of six of the best 20 emerging Russian companies, while Canada has three, Europe (UK, Switzerland, Hungary, the Czech Republic), Singapore and China that make up the rest.

methodology

There are other ways to track “hot” source projects. Two Sigma Ventass works Open source indexIt is similar to the concept of a Russian index except that it displays the best 100 projects without a specific focus on commercial startups (and also provides different ways to liquidate data).

GitHub provides itself as a file The project list from the highest directionAgain without focusing on commercial companies.

It is also worth looking at methodology Behind the Russian index. Github “Stars” can be an incomplete scale, because it only shows that someone “love” the project, rather than using it actively or monitoring it. It is natural that old projects have bought more “stars”, and for this reason Rana focused on the relative growth of warehouses over 90 days for their quarterly reports, and the absolute number of new stars acquired during the year for their annual report.

This also means that the annual report can seem completely different from the quarterly reports, given that the number of absolute stars will not always be in line with rapid relative growth patterns.

There may also be some problems about what has been classified as “an open source”. While many projects have already been released on the list under one of the recognized projects LieCleft or an open source licenseThis is not a strict condition for a Russian index. Rona says she is committed to “commercial perception” of the open source, instead of Definition of the official open source. As such, a company has released its programs under the public server license (Sspl), For example, it is still qualified as an open source, although The open source initiative did not rise SSPL as “Open Source”.

However, the indicator is a useful indicator not only for the types of open source technology that is heading, but also what companies are trying to build companies over them.