Public record for open source AI

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Openflows documents the open source AI ecosystem as a field in motion: tools lowering barriers to inference and orchestration, models circulating as shared infrastructure, governance experiments running in public, and practitioners shaping direction through sustained work.

264English entries
225Chinese entries
25Circuits
15Practitioners

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Currents

224 entries

Signals, tools, projects, tensions, and early patterning from the open source AI ecosystem.

Circuits

25 entries

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Practitioners

15 entries

People whose sustained practice makes the field more legible.

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  • LightRAG
    Current Apr 15, 2026

    LightRAG is an open-source retrieval-augmented generation framework optimized for speed and simplicity, utilizing knowledge graph structures to enhance context retrieval efficiency.

  • Aider Terminal Pair Programmer
    Current Apr 14, 2026

    Aider is a command-line interface tool that enables AI-assisted code editing, refactoring, and explanation directly within the terminal environment using repository context.

  • gptme
    Current Apr 14, 2026

    gptme is a Python-based command-line interface tool that facilitates persistent autonomous agent sessions with local tool integration and multi-provider LLM support.

  • holaOS
    Current Apr 14, 2026

    holaOS is an Electron-based desktop environment designed to provide persistent runtime, memory, and state management for autonomous agents operating over long-horizon workflows.

  • Paseo
    Current Apr 14, 2026

    Paseo is a remote orchestration tool for AI coding agents that enables control across mobile, desktop, and CLI interfaces.

  • AstrBot
    Current Apr 12, 2026

    A Python-based agentic infrastructure for integrating large language models with multi-platform instant messaging services through a plugin architecture.

  • Multica
    Current Apr 11, 2026

    Multica is an open-source orchestration engine designed to enable autonomous AI agents to share, reuse, and compound skills across distributed workflows.

  • SAM
    Current Apr 11, 2026

    A native macOS AI assistant built with Swift and SwiftUI that prioritizes local data processing and supports multiple AI providers for autonomous task execution.

  • ai4j
    Current Apr 06, 2026

    A modular Java SDK that unifies multi-provider LLM access, agentic runtime execution, and RAG pipelines for JDK 8+ environments.

  • Endee: Billion-Scale Local Vector Search
    Current Apr 06, 2026

    Endee is an open-source, hardware-native vector database engine designed to scale semantic search to one billion vectors on self-hosted infrastructure.

  • Introducing the Agent Governance Toolkit: Open-source runtime security for AI agents
    Current Apr 05, 2026

    Microsoft releases an open-source runtime security toolkit providing policy enforcement, execution monitoring, and audit capabilities for autonomous AI agent frameworks.

  • MiniCode
    Current Apr 05, 2026

    MiniCode is a minimalist terminal user interface assistant that consolidates coding session management within the terminal environment to reduce context switching between development tools.

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