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Open source AI refers to freely available models, libraries and tools — from Hugging Face releases to community projects on GitHub. This page tracks every notable open release.
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Your contributors are AI-first now. Is your project?
The same question keeps coming up in maintainer conversations: what do you do when the pull request queue…
Building an End-to-End Data Science Portfolio Project
Most portfolios stop at a notebook. Take yours all the way.
5 Easy Ways to Install Python on Windows
Learn how to install Python on Windows using the Python Install Manager, WinGet, uv, Miniconda, or the…
The Ultimate Guide to Contributing to Open Source Projects
This guide walks through what contributing to open source projects actually covers, how to pick a project…
3 Visual Proofs of the Central Limit Theorem to Build Your Intuition
To build your intuition, this article shows three visual proofs that the classic bell curve appears in myriad…
Scaling Test-Time Compute in Search Mode
Scaling test-time compute has become one of the clearest successes of the foundation model era. Spend more…
Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java
Java developers no longer have to rely on Java framework-specific approaches to drive AI from their…
New Free eBook: Understanding Agentic AI, an Executive Briefing
Written for CEOs, CTOs, CIOs, and technology executives, our new free ebook "Understanding Agentic AI: An…
Specification Engineering: The New Skill After Prompt Engineering
Prompt engineering taught us how to ask better questions. Specification engineering teaches us how to define…
Fast, On Device Agentic AI with Muse Glimmer on ExecuTorch
Today, Meta introduced Muse Glimmer, an open-weight, 30-billion-parameter model distilled from Meta’s Muse…
Top 10 AI Influencers of 2026
Ten AI influencers who are actually shaping 2026, from safe superintelligence to AI-native search. Here is…
Small Language Models with Hugging Face transformers Library + smolLM3
Running a 70B model in production is expensive, and for many tasks, unnecessary. If you're building a focused…
5 Free Courses to Learn Modern AI and LLMs
Learn how to use generative AI at work, build RAG and agentic apps, fine-tune models, work with the Hugging…
PyTorch Conference North America Announces 2026 Keynotes
PyTorch Conference North America will be held in San Jose, California, on October 20–21, 2026. Featured…
Beyond Bots: Rethinking AI Support with a Hybrid AI Architecture
Learn how blending RAG and fine-tuning creates more effective AI support experiences.
PyTorch by the Sea: The inaugural Santa Cruz PyTorch Meetup
TL;DR The inaugural Santa Cruz PyTorch Meetup brought together 45 local engineers, students, and leaders for…
The Minimal AI Engineer Toolkit for 2026
Discover the six essential tools AI engineers need in 2026 to build and deploy production-grade autonomous…
Getting Started with GitHub Agentic Workflows
GitHub Agentic Workflows are in public preview. Find out all about them here.
Turn Any CSV into an Executive Report with Python and AI
Learn to implement a repeatable pipeline that cleans a CSV, finds the story, and writes it up.
llamafile v0.10.5
llamafile v0.10.5 is out, and it tracks a much more recent llama.cpp, which lets it run two models people…
Turn one giant AI-generated pull request to a reviewable stack
Think about the last big feature you shipped. Be honest. Did you cram it into one giant pull request, or did…
I Replaced Pip, Virtualenv, and Poetry With uv: Here’s Why
uv is making my life easier by giving me one fast tool for package installation, virtual environments, lock…
Proposing the SAFE Working Group: An Open Community Effort to Improve AI Security
The open source community has shown time and again that collaboration produces better software, stronger…
7 Approaches to Reduce Inference Latency in Your LLM Workflows
From quantization to speculative decoding, here are seven engineering strategies to ship faster, more…