A new report shows the 20 high-ranking outdoor startups worldwide, more than half of which are closely compatible with it.
The report is the works of the European Entrepreneurial Entrepreneurship Firm Runa Capital, which has operated the Runa Open Source (Ross) starting index. Starting in 2023, Runa began producing annual reports, highlighting the most popular beginnings of open trade source in a given year.
Last year’s report demonstrated that he and the data infrastructure were promoting the demand for open source vehicles, with the position of the Langchain hit policy at the Ross Index for its open source framework for the construction of LLM -centered applications.
This year is a similar story, with the essential to 11 of the top 20 companies.
It is worth noting that the Ross Index is highly cured and does not include any old open source project. Qualifying projects must be closely linked to a trading company (IE, a seller -led project), which means no side projects. Moreover, these companies must be younger than 10; increased less than $ 100 million in funds; and be completely independent – so not a branch or publicly listed.
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In the first place in the Ross 2024 index is Ollama, an alum of the Y Combiner that is built an open source tool for the execution of LLMs such as Meta’s Llama and Deepseek in place (ie, desktop). Ollama’s Gitchub star number increased by about 76,000 by 2024, increasing 261% to more than 105,000 (what has since increased to more than 135,000 stars in recent months).
Next on the list is the ZED industries, an editor of the inter-platform cooperative code “created for high performance cooperation with people and the one”. The ZED project has been around for a while, but it only went open source in January 2024, and over the rest of the year won more than 52,000 Gitchub stars.
In third place is Langgenius, the company behind an open -source LLM -sourced application platform called DIFY. The project reached more than 43,000 new Github stars last year, growing 326% from about 13,000 to nearly 57,000 – a figure since then has increased to more than 84,000 stars.
And then there is comfyui, an open -sourced node -based program for generating images, videos and audio using it generating models. The Github Star number of the project increased 195% to 61.900 stars last year.
The summary of the first five is all hands, the company behind an open source platform called OpenHands for building software development agents. Openhands won 39,600 stars of Github from its beginning last March until the end of 2024 and has then added 12,000 stars to the mix.
While the Ross Index for the past year illustrates the explosive growth in AI and LLM, it also shows how developers’ tools are still hot in the open source world, with ZED and Astral’s likes (no. 9) both present in Top 10.
And the fuel centered on Blockchain Etereum (No. 12) shows that cryptocurrency/web3 is vibrant and kicking.
Open source software by its nature has always been distributed, given that contributors from all corners of the globe can be included. This is often the case for retailers led projects; However, commercial entities usually have a center of gravity – even if it simply means where it is officially involved.
The Ross Index for last year shows that San Francisco is the sixth home of the top 20 beginnings of Ross, while Canada has three, and Europe (United Kingdom, Switzerland, Hungary and Republika Czecheke), Singapore and China that make up the rest.
Methodology
There are other ways to follow “hot” open source projects. Two Sigma Ventures operates the open source index, which is similar in concept with the Ross Index In addition to showing the 100 best projects without a specific focus on trading beginnings (it also offers different ways of filtering data).
And Github itself offers a list of higher projects, again without the specific focus on trading businesses.
It is also worth looking at the methodology that stands behind the Ross index. Github “stars” can be an imperfect metric, as it simply shows that someone has “liked” the project, compared to its use or monitoring actively. Older projects will naturally have purchased more “stars”, which is why Runa focuses on the relative growth of warehouses for a 90-day period for its quarterly reports, and on the absolute number of new stars gained during the year for its annual report.
This also means that the annual ratio may seem quite different from the quarterly ratios, given that the absolute star counts will not always be approximated with rapid models of relative growth.
There may also be some issues about what is classified as “open source”. While many of the projects on the list are really released under a well -known copy or open -sourced license, this is not a strict determination of the Ross Index. Runa says it adheres to the “trade perception” of the open source, rather than the official definition of open source. As such, a company that has issued its software under the public license on the server (SSPL), for example, would qualify as an open source, although the open source initiative has not destroyed SPL as “open source”.
However, the index is a useful indicator not only what types of open source technology are in tendency, but also those that companies are trying to build businesses on top of them.
