Generative AI is popular among open source projects Open source generative AI projects joined GitHub’s list of the top 10 most popular open source projects by contributor count in 2023.

By 2023, GitHub noted that some open source generative AI projects were already among the top 10 most popular projects by contributor count. This is a remarkable shift.

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For example, there are currently more than 30,000 open-source projects on GitHub using the GPT-3.5 family of LLMs, despite OpenAI only debuting ChatGPT seven months ago.

And then there is ComfyUI, an open source node-based program for generating images, videos, and audio using generative AI models. The project’s GitHub star count grew 195% to 61,900 stars last year.