Bloomberg L.P. (FIGI Registration Authority) · Market & fundamentals data
Bloomberg's subscription workstation for market data, news, analytics, messaging and execution, with Excel integration and the BLPAPI library for C++, Java, .NET and Python
Sebastián Ramírez (tiangolo) and FastAPI contributors · API development & tooling
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Python web framework for building HTTP APIs from type-annotated functions, with automatic validation through Pydantic and generated OpenAPI documentation
Hosting platform for open models, datasets and Spaces demo apps built on git repositories and Xet storage, with Inference Providers, Endpoints, Jobs and an open-source Python client and CLI
Open-source Python SDK and self-hosted AI gateway that calls 100+ LLM providers in the OpenAI format, with routing, fallbacks, virtual keys, budgets, spend tracking and logging callbacks
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
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
Commercial API platform for designing, testing, documenting and monitoring HTTP and other APIs through a desktop and web client with cloud-synced workspaces
Pydantic Services Inc. · Data quality & validation
Python data-validation library using type hints to parse, validate and serialize models, with a Rust core; the schema layer behind FastAPI and many LLM SDKs