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2024 GitHub Accelerator: Meet the 11 projects shaping open source AI

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I was excited for Accelerator. All of the projects from last year[1] actually looked useful or I was already using them (htmx, dioxus, nuxt, datasette, trpc, strawberryql). Now it is a bunch of garbage LLM tools I will never use. Even their front page[2] looks infinitely worse than I remember and only says "Powering AI Advancements in the open." RIP GitHub Accelerator.

EDIT: they really did make the front page much worse[3]. The words on the original page actually sound like they were written by a human. No mention of uplifting the open source ecosystem anymore, not even pictures of OSS maintainers.

[1]: https://github.blog/2023-04-12-github-accelerator-our-first-... [2]: https://accelerator.github.com/ [3]: https://archive.is/PIqUT

It's a privilege to be part of this years accelerator, especially given how awesome all the other projects are

Congrats! Big fan of Dashy, and happy to see a project here that is not all about AI.

This year's projects are very exciting - here is a list of the projects:

Unsloth AI - Bending the cost curve of finetuning models Aframe (https://aframe.io/) - Making AR/VR more performant in the broswer Giskard (https://lnkd.in/gpmnjxs8) - Enterprise Testing platform for AI models Langdrive (https://addy.so/ and https://docs.langdrive.ai/) - Easy to train LLM with API - Plug and play APIs for LLMs LLMWare (by Ai Bloks) (https://lnkd.in/geS_nJu3) - Simplifying the way enterprises use Small Language Models Open WebUI (https://openwebui.com/) - Making LLMs available to anyone locally via UI to bring privacy, security and performance talkd.ai (https://lnkd.in/gg5GPQ) - Optimizing LLMs with Easy RAG deployment and management Web-Check (https://web-check.xyz/) - AI powered security insights bawed on open data from any website HackingbuddyGPT (https://hackingbuddy.ai/) - copilots for security teams with autonomous agents marimo (https://marimo.io/) - raising the bar for ML and data science notebooks Nav2 (https://nav2.org/) - home of robotics navigation

do you work for Github ? because "very exciting" is not what I would call these .

Unsloth and webcheck are maybe interesting , but the rest are just AI for the sake of AI . I did think hackingbuddy was fun too , but not groundbreaking .

Is it just me or are all the RAG workflow tools doing 80% of the same thing? I don't know why I need them for a workflow.

I see only one true AI tool in the list: unsloth/unsloth

yes unsloth looks interesting . I do really like webcheck which ironically is the only one without AI shoehorned into it .

hackingbuddy looks fun , but wouldn't say it advances open source in anyway , it just calls the OpenAPI API . I also tried the dialog one , but it's very broken . Did Github not vet the projects?

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