ggml-org (Georgi Gerganov and contributors) · Local LLM inference & serving
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C/C++ inference engine for LLMs and vision-language models with GGUF quantized weights, Metal, CUDA, Vulkan and other backends, a CLI and an OpenAI-compatible server
Element Labs, Inc. · Local LLM inference & serving
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Proprietary desktop app for discovering, downloading and running local LLMs with llama.cpp and MLX engines, a chat UI, an OpenAI-compatible server, CLI, SDKs and a headless daemon
Model Context Protocol, a Series of LF Projects, LLC (originated by Anthropic) · Agent frameworks & orchestration
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Open JSON-RPC standard for connecting AI applications to tools, data and prompts through servers, now stewarded under the Linux Foundation with SDKs in many languages
Open sourceOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026
React framework from Vercel for full-stack web applications with file-based routing, server components, server-side rendering, static generation and API route handlers
Open-source runtime and model manager for running open-weight LLMs locally on macOS, Windows and Linux, with a REST API, OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints and optional cloud models
Collaborative online LaTeX editor with real-time co-editing, templates and reference-manager sync, available as a hosted service and an AGPL self-hosted edition
Universal document converter that translates between Markdown, LaTeX, HTML, DOCX, EPUB, Typst, Jupyter and dozens of other formats, with citeproc and Lua filters
Google (Chrome DevTools team) · Data collection & crawling
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Node.js library from the Chrome team for controlling Chrome and Firefox over the DevTools Protocol or WebDriver BiDi, used for scraping, screenshots, PDFs and testing