Open Source AI Gap Map

According to Simon Willison, a nonprofit organization called Current AI has released the first comprehensive mapping of the open-source AI ecosystem. Launched in February twenty twenty-five with four hundred million dollars in backing, Current AI's new Gap Map catalogs four hundred twenty-one products in depth, including two hundred sixty-six software tools and libraries, eighty-five models, fifty datasets, and twenty hardware projects from two hundred twenty-eight organizations. The map organizes these across fourteen categories spanning three layers of the stack: model components, product and user experience, and infrastructure. Beyond those carefully documented entries lies a long tail of twenty-four thousand four hundred additional open-source AI projects that remain uncategorized. What makes this particularly valuable is that Current AI released the underlying data—one thousand one hundred eighty-four YAML files, plus all the research notebooks and schemas—under an open MIT license on GitHub. That means anyone can explore the full catalog, including the sixteen thousand one hundred eighty-five GitHub repositories currently tracked by the project.

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