The State of Open Source AI
The State of Open Source AI is You might be renting horsepower you don’t need to get the average task done. Closed models can cost ~5x more per task, but that premium only pays off with tasks. It is ranked #3063 on the AI Radar, in Open & local models, first seen 43 days ago and shared in 6 posts (301.2k views).
The State of Open Source AI — v1.1 · September 2026 The state of open source AI . v1.1 · Recurring · September 2026 · Past editions here An introduction from our CTO Te reo Māori has no commercial market to speak of. A broadcaster in the far north of New Zealand has been building speech models for it anyway, under a licence written so the recordings stay with the communities that gave them. Farmers in East Africa point a phone at a cassava leaf and get a diagnosis back with no signal at all, from a model small enough to sit on the handset. In Switzerland, a public consortium trained a national model on public supercomputers and released all…
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The State of Open Source AI in numbers
- Rank on the AI Radar: #3063 of 10410
- Shared in 6 posts by 3 accounts: @mozilla, @raffi, @iCleanAI
- 301.2k views on those posts
- First seen 43 days ago, last shared 30 days ago
- Pricing seen by AGK Intelligence: free
- Market: Open & local models
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What is The State of Open Source AI?
You might be renting horsepower you don’t need to get the average task done. Closed models can cost ~5x more per task, but that premium only pays off with tasks It was first shared on X 43 days ago and is ranked #3063 on the AI Radar.
Is The State of Open Source AI free?
Yes, it is free to use.
Who shared The State of Open Source AI?
3 accounts on X, including @mozilla, @raffi, @iCleanAI, in 6 posts totalling 301.2k views.
Every post is read and classified by AGK Intelligence: what it is, which market it belongs to, and whether the link is a real tool. 65.6k posts from 5k X accounts over the last 14 days, 10.4k tools, 19 markets. New posts are collected several times an hour and the full ranking is recomputed every hour — last update 2026-11-06 16:05 UTC. Full method.