Free/Open Source Software choosing to use and/or support LLM usage/AI, as well as alternatives and tips to requesting better policies or forking.
"Useful" is not sufficient
So Linus Torvalds, head of the Linux kernel development, put his foot down on the Linux Kernel development mailing list when someone was bringing up criticism of LLMs: “Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issueswith that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it. Or just walk away. […]
Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them
A few days ago, I came across a blog post titled On FLOSS and training LLMs that articulates a growing frustration within the free and open source software…
Extensible Software in the age of LLMs | Jeremy Morrell
Solid core + capability-based sandboxes + LLMs = Users with superpowers
truefoundry/trueforge
The open-source agent harness - the runtime layer that turns an LLM into a working agent.
OpenAI's open source LLM is a reasoning model, coming Next Thursday!
1.1K votes, 257 comments. 756K subscribers in the LocalLLaMA community. Subreddit to discuss locally hostable AI.
The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy
Zig has one of the most stringent anti-LLM policies of any major open source project: No LLMs for issues. No LLMs for pull requests. No LLMs for comments on the …
The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy
Zig has one of the most stringent anti-LLM policies of any major open source project: No LLMs for issues. No LLMs for pull requests. No LLMs for comments on the …
Mesh-LLM/mesh-llm
Distributed AI/LLM for the people. Share compute privately or publicly to power your agents and chat.
BytePlus Free Trial: 4K AI Image/Video Models + LLM Tokens | 200 Free Images
BytePlus free trial, Seedream 4.0, Seedance 1.0, DeepSeek V3.1, GPT-OSS-120B, free 4K AI images, AI video generation, BytePlus LLM tokens
Best LLM for Coding 2026 | AI Coding Model Rankings & Benchmarks
Which AI model writes the best code? We rank every major LLM — open and closed source — across SWE-bench, HumanEval, LiveCodeBench, and Terminal-Bench coding benchmarks. Compare the best LLMs for coding, software engineering, and programming.
State of AI 2025: 100T Token LLM Usage Study | OpenRouter
Read OpenRouter's 2025 State of AI report — an empirical 100 trillion token study of real LLM usage, model trends, and developer insights.
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On ThinkStack: Linux kernel adopts no-embargo policy as LLMs flood maintainers with CVEs · Evan You ships Vite Plus to unify Rollup, Oxlint, Oxformat, and Vitest into one Rust/Go toolchain · 88% of firms use AI coding tools but only 5.5% see business impact, PlatformCon study fin
Rohan Paul on Twitter / X
👨🔧 Github: Native, Apple Silicon–only local LLM server. Similar to Ollama, but built on Apple's MLX- OpenAI API compatible, - Ollama‑compatible- OpenAI‑style tools + tool_choice, with tool_calls parsing and streaming deltasgithub. com/dinoki-ai/osaurus pic.twitter.com/G0NbWnEJcQ— Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) September 3, 2025
BerriAI/litellm
Python SDK, Proxy Server (AI Gateway) to call 100+ LLM APIs in OpenAI (or native) format, with cost tracking, guardrails, loadbalancing and logging. [Bedrock, Azure, OpenAI, VertexAI, Cohere, Anthropic, Sagemaker, HuggingFace, VLLM, NVIDIA NIM]
Sentient OS - Proactive Intelligence with on-device AI
An on-device LLM understands your entire life, then proactively offers to get your work done through computer use. Private by design. Free and open source.
