Open Source AI Gap Map
Simon Willison · Simon Willison · 2026-07-03
Simon Willison covers the launch of Current AI's Open Source AI Gap Map v0.1, which catalogs 421 open-source AI products across 14 categories and releases the underlying data as 1,184 MIT-licensed YAML files on GitHub.
Extraction
Topics: open-source-aiai-ecosystem-mappingai-datasetsai-infrastructure
Claims
- Current AI, a non-profit founded at the AI Action Summit in Paris in February 2025 with $400M in committed funding, launched the Open Source AI Gap Map.
- The Gap Map v0.1 catalogs 421 products in depth including 266 software tools, 85 models, 50 datasets, and 20 hardware projects from 228 organizations across 14 categories.
- The project tracks over 24,400 total open-source AI artifacts, with most uncategorized pending further research.
- The underlying data is released under an MIT license as 1,184 YAML files on GitHub, making it freely reusable and explorable.
Key quotes
The Gap Map v0.1 details 421 products in depth: 266 software tools and libraries, 85 models, 50 datasets, and 20 hardware projects, produced by 228 organizations.
I'm more excited about the underlying data - released under an MIT license in the currentai-org/os-ai-map GitHub account: 1,184 YAML files plus the notebooks, schemas and other scripts used to help gather them.