16 Open Source Projects Transforming AI And Machine Learning
Infoworld, Monday, January 26th, 2026
From fine-tuning open source models to building agentic frameworks on top of them, the open source world is ripe with projects that support AI development.
For several decades now, the most innovative software has always emerged from the world of open source software. It's no different with machine learning and large language models. If anything, the open source ecosystem has grown richer and more complex, because now there are open source models to complement the open source code.
For this article, we've pulled together some of the most intriguing and useful projects for AI and machine learning. Many of these are foundation projects, nurturing their own niche ecology of open source plugins and extensions. Once you've started with the basic project, you can keep adding more parts.