Top 23 language-model Open-Source Projects

1. generative-ai-for-beginners

   1 14 111,683 9.8 Jupyter Notebook

   21 Lessons, Get Started Building with Generative AI

   

   Project mention: 10 GitHub Repos Every Serious Prompt Writer Should Be Using | dev.to | 2025-11-22

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3. LLMs-from-scratch

   2 38 96,593 9.2 Jupyter Notebook

   Implement a ChatGPT-like LLM in PyTorch from scratch, step by step

   

   Project mention: DeepSeek Sparse Attention | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-24

4. Prompt-Engineering-Guide

   3 100 75,276 8.3 MDX

   🐙 Guides, papers, lessons, notebooks and resources for prompt engineering, context engineering, RAG, and AI Agents.

   

   Project mention: Your AI is not bad, your instructions are | dev.to | 2026-05-22

   Prompt Engineering Guide

5. gpt4free

   4 45 66,281 9.8 Python

   The official gpt4free repository | various collection of powerful language models | opus 4.6 gpt 5.3 kimi 2.5 deepseek v3.2 gemini 3

   

   Project mention: GPT4Free: "educational project" for free LLM inference from various services | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-30

6. Open-Assistant

   5 329 37,413 4.3 Python

   OpenAssistant is a chat-based assistant that understands tasks, can interact with third-party systems, and retrieve information dynamically to do so.

   

7. stanford_alpaca

   6 111 30,261 0.0 Python

   Code and documentation to train Stanford's Alpaca models, and generate the data.

   

8. repomix

   7 50 25,919 9.9 TypeScript

   📦 Repomix is a powerful tool that packs your entire repository into a single, AI-friendly file. Perfect for when you need to feed your codebase to Large Language Models (LLMs) or other AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Perplexity, Gemini, Gemma, Llama, Grok, and more.

   

   Project mention: 15 AI Coding Hacks Nobody Talks About (2026) | dev.to | 2026-05-28

   Most people paste files one at a time. Install Repomix and feed your entire project to the AI in one command.

9. ai

   8 57 24,695 10.0 TypeScript

   The AI Toolkit for TypeScript. From the creators of Next.js, the AI SDK is a free open-source library for building AI-powered applications and agents

   

   Project mention: Vercel AI Gateway Appears to Block BYOK Requests When Account Balance Reaches $0 | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-01

10. mlc-llm

    9 90 22,749 9.0 Python

    Universal LLM Deployment Engine with ML Compilation

    

11. web-llm

    10 62 18,110 7.2 TypeScript

    High-performance In-browser LLM Inference Engine

    

    Project mention: Stop Sending Medical Data to the Cloud: Build a 100% Private Health AI with WebLLM and Transformers.js | dev.to | 2026-05-03

    Tech Stack: React (Vite), WebLLM, Transformers.js.

12. DocsGPT

    11 41 17,921 9.7 Python

    Private AI platform for agents, assistants and enterprise search. Built-in Agent Builder, Deep research, Document analysis, Multi-model support, and API connectivity for agents.

    

13. StableLM

    12 43 15,740 5.0 Jupyter Notebook

    StableLM: Stability AI Language Models

    

14. RWKV-LM

    13 86 14,548 9.0 Python

    RWKV (pronounced RwaKuv) is an RNN with great LLM performance, which can also be directly trained like a GPT transformer (parallelizable). We are at RWKV-7 "Goose". So it's combining the best of RNN and transformer - great performance, linear time, constant space (no kv-cache), fast training, infinite ctx_len, and free sentence embedding.

    

    Project mention: RWKV-7 beats Llama 3.2 with 3x fewer training tokens and formally exceeds TC^0 | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-23

15. open_clip

    14 34 13,882 7.4 Python

    An open source implementation of CLIP.

    

    Project mention: Cross-Modal Embeddings: Bridging AI Modalities | dev.to | 2025-11-21

    OpenCLIP: Open Source Implementation

16. LoRA

    15 51 13,316 2.5 Python

    Code for loralib, an implementation of "LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models"

    

    Project mention: LLM Fine-Tuning vs RAG: A Production Decision Framework for Engineering Teams | dev.to | 2026-06-04

    LoRA (Hu et al., 2021) freezes the base model weights and injects trainable low-rank decomposition matrices into the attention layers. Instead of updating all 7 billion parameters of a 7B model, LoRA trains ~1–5% of equivalent parameters. Results:

17. lm-evaluation-harness

    16 42 12,818 9.4 Python

    A framework for few-shot evaluation of language models.

    

    Project mention: What is an LLM evaluation harness? A deep dive into lm-eval-harness | dev.to | 2026-06-03

    EleutherAI started the project in 2020 as a unified way to reproduce published LLM benchmark numbers. It's now at v0.4.12 (May 2026), ships with 200+ tasks spanning reasoning, knowledge, coding, math, multilingual, and long-context benchmarks, and supports a long list of model backends: Hugging Face transformers, vLLM, SGLang, GPT-NeoX, Megatron-DeepSpeed, plus API endpoints for OpenAI, Anthropic, and a few others.

18. txtai

    17 394 12,627 9.5 Python

    💡 All-in-one AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows

    

    Project mention: Agent Tools | dev.to | 2026-03-16

19. speechbrain

    18 28 11,592 8.5 Python

    A PyTorch-based Speech Toolkit

    

    Project mention: 5 must know open-source repositories to build cool AI apps | dev.to | 2025-10-29

    Star the Speech Brain repository ⭐

20. tokenizers

    19 10 10,795 8.5 Rust

    💥 Fast State-of-the-Art Tokenizers optimized for Research and Production

    

    Project mention: Building Sentence Transformers in Rust: A Practical Guide with Burn, ONNX Runtime, and Candle | dev.to | 2025-10-30

    HuggingFace Tokenizers: https://huggingface.co/docs/tokenizers

21. koboldcpp

    20 185 10,708 0.0 C++

    Run GGUF models easily with a KoboldAI UI. One File. Zero Install.

    

    Project mention: Best Free AI Chatbots Without Login (over TOR and Anonymous) | dev.to | 2025-10-07

    https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp Download models at HuggingFace and run them locally. No logins, no spying, no hidden data harvesting.

22. ChatRWKV

    21 28 9,491 5.3 Python

    ChatRWKV is like ChatGPT but powered by RWKV (100% RNN) language model, and open source.

    

23. MemOS

    22 4 9,615 9.9 TypeScript

    Self-evolving memory OS for LLM & AI Agents: ultra-persistent memory, hybrid-retrieval, and cross-task skill reuse, with 35.24% token savings (by MemTensor)

    

    Project mention: Top 10 OpenClaw Development Patterns and Architecture Best Practices | dev.to | 2026-02-18

    Repository: https://github.com/MemTensor/MemOS Architecture Pattern: Layered Memory System

24. LMFlow

    23 10 8,488 7.6 Python

    An Extensible Toolkit for Finetuning and Inference of Large Foundation Models. Large Models for All.

    

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