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Best Open Source LLMs
Updated daily. 60 projects, ranked by stars and checked for fork and maintenance activity.
Top Open Source LLMs
Established projects, still shipping. Tagged large-language-models, local-llm on GitHub.
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Langflow is a powerful tool for building and deploying AI-powered agents and workflows.
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Implement a ChatGPT-like LLM in PyTorch from scratch, step by step
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Course to get into Large Language Models (LLMs) with roadmaps and Colab notebooks.
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Unified Efficient Fine-Tuning of 100+ LLMs & VLMs (ACL 2024)
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为GPT/GLM等LLM大语言模型提供实用化交互接口,特别优化论文阅读/润色/写作体验,模块化设计,支持自定义快捷按钮&函数插件,支持Python和C++等项目剖析&自译解功能,PDF/LaTex论文翻译&总结功能,支持并行问询多种LLM模型,支持chatglm3等本地模型。接入通义千问, deepseekcoder, 讯飞星火, 文心一言, llama2, rwkv, claude2, moss等。
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《深入理解 AI Agent:设计原理与工程实践》(李博杰 著)开源主仓库:全书正文、编译版 PDF 与按章配套代码
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Ultra-lightweight, open-source, self-hosted personal AI agent framework in Python with WebUI, tools, memory, MCP, multi-agent workflows, automation, and chat apps
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Ray is an AI compute engine. Ray consists of a core distributed runtime and a set of AI Libraries for accelerating ML workloads.
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[EMNLP2025] LightRAG: Simple and Fast Retrieval-Augmented Generation
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A Python library for extracting structured information from unstructured text using LLMs with precise source grounding and interactive visualization.
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🪢 Open source agent evals & observability: Trace, evaluate, and improve LLM applications with one open platform.
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Build and run agents you can see, understand and trust.
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A one stop repository for generative AI research updates, interview resources, notebooks and much more!
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Official code repo for the O'Reilly Book - "Hands-On Large Language Models"
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Open-source AI orchestration framework for building context-engineered, production-ready LLM applications. Design modular pipelines and agent workflows with explicit control over retrieval, routing, memory, and generation. Built for scalable agents, RAG, multimodal applications, semantic search, and conversational systems.
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Distribute and run LLMs with a single file.
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🚀 A curated collection of AI engineering resources, roadmaps, tools, and projects covering LLMs, RAG, AI Agents, MCP, fine-tuning, evaluations, and production AI systems.
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The official repo of Qwen (通义千问) chat & pretrained large language model proposed by Alibaba Cloud.
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Code for Machine Learning for Trading, 3rd edition - from data sourcing to live execution.
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FinGPT: Open-Source Financial Large Language Models! Revolutionize 🔥 We release the trained model on HuggingFace.
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Machine Learning Engineering Open Book
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中文LLaMA&Alpaca大语言模型+本地CPU/GPU训练部署 (Chinese LLaMA & Alpaca LLMs)
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Ongoing research training transformer models at scale
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:sparkles::sparkles:Latest Advances on Multimodal Large Language Models
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🐫 CAMEL: The first and the best multi-agent framework. Finding the Scaling Law of Agents. https://www.camel-ai.org
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Sample code and notebooks for Generative AI on Google Cloud, with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
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Automated Penetration Testing Agentic Framework Powered by Large Language Models
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20+ high-performance LLMs with recipes to pretrain, finetune and deploy at scale.
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💡 All-in-one AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows
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A straightforward method for training your LLM, from downloading data to generating text.
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A curated list of modern Generative Artificial Intelligence projects and services
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Pocket Flow: Codebase to Tutorial
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Hierarchical Reasoning Model Official Release
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An open-source, tool-augmented conversational language model from Fudan University
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Pocket Flow: 100-line LLM framework. Let Agents build Agents!
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A curated list of 120+ LLM libraries category wise.
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A curated list of practical guide resources of LLMs (LLMs Tree, Examples, Papers)
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An Easy-to-use, Scalable and High-performance Agentic RL Framework based on Ray (PPO & DAPO & REINFORCE++ & VLM & TIS & vLLM & Ray & Async RL)
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High-speed Large Language Model Serving for Local Deployment
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Fine-tune LLMs from one YAML. Layer streaming trains an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU.
New and rising Open Source LLMs
Created in the last 90 days and climbing fast.
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A self-hosted job search app that writes tailored resumes and cover letters from your profile.
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Serve large Qwen models fast on the GPUs you actually own. Qwen3.8-27B on a single 24 GB card with vLLM: 127 tok/s single-user (381 when the answer quotes the prompt), ~1,035 tok/s at 64 concurrent, 150k-262k context. vLLM patches, requant pipeline, benchmarks.
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Project Maya - run GLM-5.3-Flash (321B MoE), DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 (748B MoE) and MiniMax-M3.1-Flash (428B MoE) privately on your own GPU(s), from one card to 16, NVIDIA or AMD, Linux or Windows. Engine, server, dashboard, OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible API, quant tools.
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NeoHorse-1: Towards Recursive Self-Improvement via Agentic Post-Training with Routing Harness.
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大模型(LLM)全栈学习路线与中文教程🔥:覆盖 Prompt Engineering、RAG、AI Agent、MCP、微调、模型部署、Transformer、AI 编程与大厂面试,从入门到生产实践。
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Local inference that behaves like a frontier API: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on AMD Strix Halo plus small NPU models, over the OpenAI and Anthropic APIs on one port.
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Your iPhone helps your Mac run a 27B model: faster prompt reading and more context over a USB-C cable
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A clinical decision-evidence benchmark: pull the one fact an answer rests on, and see whether the assistant's action moves with the evidence. Built on HealthBench.
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Halo is an open-source framework built by White Circle for training large language and multimodal models
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Swiftlet is a Swift and Metal runtime that runs large Qwen Mixture-of-Experts models locally on Apple devices by streaming expert weights from storage, enabling 35B and 80B models to run with low RAM, including on iPhone.
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Run large AI models on your own PC: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on Strata's engine, and GLM 5.3 Flash, DeepSeek V4 Flash, LFM2.5, Qwen3.6, Ornith 1.5, Gemma 4, Tiel Coder and MiniCPM-V on a second engine written for PolyStrata. One-click install for Windows and Linux, OpenAI/Anthropic API on localhost.
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Peer-to-peer LLM inference in the browser: pool your devices to run big open models, for chat and coding agents.
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Run a 105 GB AI model on a Mac that can't hold it. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 4-bit, streamed from SSD on 16 - 64 GB Apple Silicon Macs. Fully native Swift, MLX and Metal. Offline, no Python. CLI, Swift library, and Ollama/OpenAI/Anthropic APIs. Works with Claude Code and Codex.
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Rewrites AI drafts so they read like a person wrote them - runs locally, keeps the facts
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AI Engineering Course - A free and complete AI Engineering Course to learn AI Engineering step by step - from Machine Learning, Neural Networks, and Transformers to LLMs, Fine-Tuning, RAG, AI Agents, LLM Inference, Evaluation, AI Safety, and AI System Design.
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本地优先的全栈 AI 创作工作站:AI对话 · AI漫画 · 漫剧创作 · 写作台 · 知识学习五大模块;vLLM / llama.cpp / Transformers 多引擎本地推理,显存智能调度、舱壁隔离自愈、仅供学习使用,欢迎交流指正。(最新进度(除插件系统)受到协议限制,暂时无法提交到仓库)
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37 tok/s from Qwen3-Next-80B (48 GB) on a 32 GB laptop, 24 without drafts vs 2.8 for llama.cpp; reading 62 vs 16 tok/s. Faster than llama.cpp on all 13 models compared in Q4_K_M. LLMs bigger than your RAM, pure C, CPU or GPU.
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Xolotl (formerly Strata-DSV4.1): run DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, all 552B, as a local coding agent on one gaming PC (RTX 4090 + 90 GB RAM) at up to ~27 tok/s, 512K context, October 1017 builds included. Plus GLM-5.3-Flash and Qwen3.8. MoE experts tiered across VRAM, pinned RAM and NVMe; OpenAI + Anthropic API.
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Low-latency local speech-to-speech voice assistant with Ming-3.0-audio-tiny on AMD and Nvidia GPUs. Easy setup on Windows and Linux
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Learn LLM Inference Engineering step by step - from KV cache, PagedAttention, and continuous batching to vLLM, SGLang, and GPUs.
How this list is built
Candidates come from the GitHub topics large-language-models, local-llm. Star counts and weekly growth come from the official GitHub star history endpoint, so the numbers match what GitHub reports. The list covers active repositories carrying at most 20 topics. A label highlights a high star count relative to forks; investigate the repository to understand the context.