20 Must‑Watch Open‑Source Projects Launched by 2024 Startups

Zed – https://github.com/zed-industries/zed, 51.6K stars, AI‑enabled development tool, USA. Zed is a next‑generation code editor designed for high‑performance collaboration between humans and AI.

xAI – https://github.com/xai-org/grok-1, 49.7K stars, AI, USA. xAI is a company focused on building artificial intelligence to accelerate human scientific discovery.

All Hands AI – https://github.com/All-Hands-AI/OpenHands, 38.7K stars, AI developer tool, USA. All Hands AI develops open‑source AI to help developers build software.

Maybe – https://github.com/maybe-finance/maybe, 35.4K stars, finance, USA. Maybe offers modern financial planning and wealth‑management services.

Astral – https://github.com/astral-sh/uv, 32.8K stars, development tool, USA. Astral builds high‑performance development tools for the Python ecosystem; UV is an extremely fast Python package and project manager written in Rust.

Puter – https://github.com/heyputer/puter, 27K stars, development tool, Canada. Puter is an advanced open‑source internet operating system aiming for rich functionality, extreme speed, and high extensibility.

InfiniFlow – https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow, 25.6K stars, AI, China. RAGFlow is an open‑source Retrieval‑Augmented Generation engine based on deep document understanding.

Shardeum – http://shardeum/shardeum, 22.9K stars, blockchain, Switzerland. Shardeum is an innovative EVM‑compatible blockchain platform that uses dynamic state sharding to achieve unprecedented scalability.

HPC‑AI Tech – https://github.com/hpcaitech/Open-Sora, 17.3K stars, AI, China. HPC‑AI Tech focuses on improving enterprise AI model training and deployment efficiency; Open‑Sora is a model designed for text‑to‑video generation.

Mendable – https://github.com/mendableai/firecrawl, 20.1K stars, AI, USA. Mendable provides an integrated platform for building AI chat applications and released Firecrawl, an API service that fetches URLs, scrapes them, and converts content to clean markdown or structured data.

Weights and Biases – https://github.com/wandb, 19.5K stars, AI development tool, USA. Weights & Biases is an AI development platform supporting the generative AI industry; it launched OpenUI, a tool that creates UI components from natural‑language descriptions and visualizes them instantly.

Asterisk – https://github.com/stitionai/devika, 18.6K stars, AI development tool, USA. Asterisk is an AI agent that can locate, verify, and patch security vulnerabilities in codebases; its team also built Devika, an agentic AI software engineer that understands high‑level human instructions, breaks them into steps, researches relevant information, and writes code to achieve the goal.

Black Forest Labs – https://github.com/black-forest-labs/flux, 18.5K stars, AI, USA. Black Forest Labs is an AI team dedicated to building the world’s best open‑vision models for developers; the repository contains minimal inference code needed to run the Flux model for image generation and editing.

Cinnamon AI – https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon, 18K stars, AI, Japan. Cinnamon AI offers an AI platform for enterprises to leverage unstructured data; it released Koteamon, an open‑source, clean, and customizable RAG UI for chatting with your documents.

EXO Labs – https://github.com/exo-explore/exo, 17.5K stars, AI, United Kingdom. EXO enables users to run their own AI clusters at home using everyday devices.

OpenAI – https://github.com/openai/swarm, 17K stars, AI, USA. OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company committed to ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all; it released Swarm, an educational framework exploring ergonomically‑designed lightweight multi‑agent orchestration.

ScrapeGraphAI – https://github.com/ScrapeGraphAI/Scrapegraph-ai, 16.5K stars, AI, Italy. ScrapeGraphAI is a Python web‑scraping library that uses LLMs and direct graph logic to create scraping pipelines for websites and local documents (XML, HTML, JSON, Markdown, etc.).

Cline – https://github.com/cline/cline, 15.1K stars, AI development tool, USA. Cline is an autonomous coding agent for your IDE that can create or edit files, run commands, and browse the web, always with your permission at each step.

Datalab – https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya, 14.7K stars, AI, USA. Datalab provides AI‑for‑documents intelligence; it developed Surya, an OCR toolkit offering models for over 90 languages, including line detection, layout analysis, table recognition, and reading‑order detection.

Composio – https://github.com/ComposioHQ/composio, 13.6K stars, AI, USA. Composio supplies more than 100 high‑quality integrations for AI agents and legal professionals via function calling.