As part of the program, GitHub will provide each project with resources, community support, and expertise, along with a total of nearly $400,000 in non-dilutive sponsorship funding and technology benefits. This includes access to Microsoft and Open AI resources, free GitHub products, and potential connections to GitHub Fund and M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund. The initiative is part of GitHub's mission to support open source development and enable a world where 1 billion individuals identify as developers.
Key takeaways:
- GitHub has welcomed 11 open source AI projects to the 2024 GitHub Accelerator, showcasing the accelerating pace of AI innovation worldwide.
- The selected projects were evaluated based on their potential to catalyze new careers, impact the broader community, enhance security, and improve the productivity and happiness of developers building with open source AI.
- The projects represent a diverse set of open source projects on GitHub, including frameworks for ML and AI, tools for model training and fine tuning, simulation, deployment, and full productionized systems, multi-modal and 3D AI capabilities, and emerging interfaces and devices from wearables to AI-powered robotics.
- Each project will receive a variety of support totaling nearly $400,000 in value, including $40,000 in total non-dilutive sponsorship funding via GitHub Sponsors, up to $350,000 in Microsoft and technology benefits through the Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub, access to credits and resources from Open AI, free Copilot and other GitHub products, and connection to GitHub Fund and M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund.