PANews reported on March 27 that according to the 2024 Runa Open Source Startup Index (ROSS Index) report released by European venture capital firm Runa Capital, more than half of the world's 20 hottest open source startups are closely related to AI. The index uses the growth of GitHub "stars" as a measurement standard to track the growth trend of commercial open source projects.

Ollama, a Y Combinator-backed company that provides tools for running large language models (LLMs) locally, ranked first, with GitHub stars growing by 76,000 to more than 135,000. Zed Industries ranked second, and its cross-platform collaborative code editor quickly gained 52,000 stars after being open sourced in 2024. LangGenius, the third-place developer of the LLM application platform Dify, grew 326% year-over-year and has more than 84,000 stars. In addition, ComfyUI and All Hands rounded out the top five with generative AI tools and developer agent platforms, respectively.

The report also shows that although AI and LLM continue to dominate, developer tools and privacy protection self-hosting tools are also attracting attention. For example, Zed, Stirling PDF and RustDesk are all in the top ten. The blockchain project Fuel shows that the encryption field is still vibrant.