Let's Encrypt
Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) · DNS & domains
Nonprofit certificate authority that issues free, automatically renewable TLS certificates through the ACME protocol
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Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) · DNS & domains
Nonprofit certificate authority that issues free, automatically renewable TLS certificates through the ACME protocol
ggml-org (Georgi Gerganov and contributors) · Local LLM inference & serving
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
LlamaIndex, Inc. · Agent frameworks & orchestration
Open-source Python framework for retrieval-augmented agents over your data, with connectors, indexes, query engines and event-driven workflows, alongside the commercial LlamaParse document platform
Zilliz / LF AI & Data Foundation · Vector databases
Open-source vector database from Zilliz with Lite, Standalone and Distributed deployments, many index types and GPU acceleration
Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX
Python package and CLI for running, serving, quantizing and fine-tuning large language models on Apple Silicon with MLX
Model Context Protocol, a Series of LF Projects, LLC (originated by Anthropic) · Agent frameworks & orchestration
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
Moodle Pty Ltd (Moodle HQ) · Collaboration & communication
Open-source learning management system used by universities and schools for courses, assignments, quizzes, grading and forums, self-hosted or via MoodleCloud
NATS project (CNCF; maintained principally by Synadia) · Messaging & queues
Lightweight Go messaging system with core pub/sub and request-reply plus JetStream persistence, key-value and object stores; a CNCF project
Ollama · Local LLM inference & serving
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
OurResearch · Literature discovery & review
Open catalog of the global research system: works, authors, sources, institutions and topics under CC0, served by a REST API, web app and S3 snapshot
OpenSearch Software Foundation (Linux Foundation) · Vector databases
Apache-2.0 search and analytics suite forked from Elasticsearch and Kibana, governed by the OpenSearch Software Foundation
OpenStreetMap Foundation · GIS & mapping
Collaboratively edited world map database released under the ODbL, with planet files, an editing API and derived tiles and extracts
ORCID, Inc. · Research dissemination
Non-profit registry of persistent researcher identifiers (ORCID iDs) with user-controlled records, Public and Member APIs, OAuth sign-in and an annual CC0 public data file
Center for Open Science · Reproducibility & research software
Free, open-source research management platform from the Center for Open Science for projects, preregistrations, registries, preprint services and linking outputs across storage providers
Roland Olbricht and the OpenStreetMap community · GIS & mapping
Read-only query service for OpenStreetMap data using the Overpass QL language, available on public instances or self-hosted
Andrew Kane (pgvector project) · Vector databases
PostgreSQL extension adding vector types, distance operators and HNSW/IVFFlat indexes for similarity search inside the database
Keymetrics (Unitech) · Infrastructure & provisioning
Production process manager for Node.js and other long-running programs with cluster mode, log handling, restart policies and boot-time startup scripts
Podman Container Tools (LF Projects) · Containers & virtualization
Daemonless, rootless container engine with a Docker-compatible CLI, companion Buildah and Skopeo tools and a Podman Desktop GUI
PostgreSQL Global Development Group · Relational databases
Open-source object-relational database server with a large extension ecosystem (PostGIS, pgvector, TimescaleDB) and broad SQL coverage
Prefect Technologies, Inc. · ETL/ELT & orchestration
Python workflow orchestration library and server where decorated functions become observable, retryable flows, with Prefect Cloud as hosted option
Prometheus Authors / Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Monitoring & observability
Pull-based metrics monitoring system and time-series database with the PromQL query language, service discovery and the Alertmanager component
Qdrant Solutions GmbH · Vector databases
Open-source vector search engine written in Rust with filterable HNSW indexes, sparse and multi-vector support, REST/gRPC APIs and a managed cloud
Broadcom · Messaging & queues
Open-source message broker in Erlang supporting AMQP 0-9-1 and 1.0, MQTT, STOMP and Streams, with routing, acknowledgements and quorum queues
Ray project (Anyscale and contributors) · Distributed & parallel computing
Open-source Python framework for distributing tasks, actors and ML workloads across a cluster, with libraries for data processing, training, tuning, serving and reinforcement learning
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