GitHub reveals the winners of the second GitHub Accelerator cohort

GitHub has introduced the second cohort of GitHub Accelerator, which is a program that funds and helps chosen open-source initiatives. 

Every mission receives $400,000 in assist, damaged down into $40,000 in non-dilutive sponsorship funding from GitHub Sponsors and $350,000 in Microsoft advantages, reminiscent of Azure and OpenAI credit, free Copilot and GitHub initiatives, and connection to GitHub Fund and Microsoft’s M12 Enterprise Fund. 

“GitHub is on a mission to allow a world the place 1 billion people name themselves builders. GitHub Accelerator is one in all many attainable methods to assist open supply—however that influence is de facto made when everybody helps the expertise they depend on. We wish to be certain that open supply thrives, builders have the selection to contribute full-time to the initiatives they care about most, and people relying on open supply profit from the innovation and sustainability. Collectively, we are able to make investments, construct, and nurture extra open supply classes, initiatives, and folks,” GitHub wrote in a weblog put up. 

This most up-to-date cohort was themed round open-source AI, and the profitable initiatives embrace: 

• UnslothAI, which makes use of rising applied sciences to high quality tune open supply fashions sooner and utilizing much less reminiscence than opponents
• Giskard, a library for testing and evaluating LLMs
• A-Body, which integrates AI workflows into the creator of AR/VR experiences
• Nav2, an autonomous cell robots navigation resolution
• OpenWebUI, a UI for working AI and LLMs regionally
• LLMware.ai, which is a set of instruments that can be utilized to construct enterprise LLM purposes 
• LangDrive, a framework for coaching and deploying LLMs through an API and configuration information
• HackingBuddyGPT, which offers AI copilots for safety groups 
• Net-Test, which offers safety insights into web sites, infrastructure, and servers
• Marimo, a pocket book for AI and machine studying
• Talkd.ai, a unified LLM Chat API