arXiv (independent non-profit, formerly hosted by Cornell University) · Research dissemination
Free, moderated open-access preprint server for physics, mathematics, computer science, statistics, quantitative finance, economics and related fields, with an open API and bulk access
Membership organization that registers DOIs for scholarly content and exposes the metadata through a free public REST API, content negotiation and the paid Metadata Plus service
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
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis · Market & fundamentals data
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Free economic database from the St. Louis Fed aggregating hundreds of thousands of US and international time series, with graphs, vintages (ALFRED), an Excel add-in and a keyed JSON/XML API
Identity-based secrets manager providing encrypted key-value storage, dynamic database and cloud credentials, PKI and encryption-as-a-service, under the Business Source License
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
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
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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
Bloomberg L.P. (FIGI Registration Authority) · Market & fundamentals data
Free API and web tool from Bloomberg for mapping tickers, ISINs, CUSIPs and other identifiers to public-domain FIGI instrument identifiers, with search and filter endpoints
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