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What Is GitHub's Fastest-Growing Project in History? Open Interpreter and the 2024 Open-Source AI Wave
Nearly all of GitHub's fastest-growing projects in 2023-2024 are AI tools. Open Interpreter hit tens of thousands of stars within days of going viral; Ollama topped the 2024 ROSS Index with 261% star growth. The pattern: developers want cloud-AI capabilities running locally on their own machines.