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OpenYC

OpenYC is an early-stage effort to build a publicly-funded, democratically-governed "public alternative to Y Combinator", a digital public infrastructure for incubating and codifying AI-native digital public goods as a public utility.

Gap Map v0.1

Current AI is a visualization tool meant to make the sprawling open source AI ecosystem legible.

2026

Caseworker Empowerment Toolkit

A suite of open source AI-powered tools that help caseworkers at every step of their journey connecting families with the social safety net

2026

Japan's Government AI (GENNAI) ガバメントAI「源内」

The Japanese government has open sourced portions of its generative AI suite.

Tokyo
2026

CommonLingua

CommonLingua is a 2.35 million-parameters language identification model trained on 2,482,568 paragraphs from Structured Wikipedia and Common Corpus trained by Pleias in partnership with the GSMA's "AI Language Models in Africa, by Africa, for Africa" initiative.

France
2026

Voxtral

"the first frontier-quality, open-weight text-to-speech model designed specifically for enterprise use." - VentureBeat

France
2026

Agent Skills

Agent Skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that agents can discover and use to do things more accurately and efficiently.

2025

Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)

The AAIF provides a neutral, open foundation to ensure this critical capability evolves transparently, collaboratively, and in ways that advance the adoption of leading open source AI projects

2025
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AGENTS.md

A simple, open format for guiding coding agents, used by over 60k open-source projects.