Webots is an open-source robot simulator that provides a complete development environment to model, program, and simulate robots, vehicles, and mechanical systems. It was originally designed at EPFL in 1996 and further developed and commercialized by Cyberbotics since 1998. Webots was open-sourced in December 2018 and continues to be developed by Cyberbotics with paid customer support, training, and consulting services for industry and academic research projects.

Aiken is a modern smart contract platform for Cardano, providing a user-friendly environment for developing and deploying smart contracts. It supports Linux, MacOS, and Windows operating systems. Aiken is designed to simplify the process of creating smart contracts on the Cardano blockchain, offering a seamless experience for developers. The platform is named after Howard Aiken, an American physicist and computing pioneer.

LangChain is an amazing framework to get LLM projects done in a matter of no time, and the ecosystem is growing fast. Here is an attempt to keep track of the initiatives around LangChain. Subscribe to the newsletter to stay informed about the Awesome LangChain. We send a couple of emails per month about the articles, videos, projects, and tools that grabbed our attention Contributions welcome. Add links through pull requests or create an issue to start a discussion. Please read the contribution guidelines before contributing.

Intel® Neural Compressor is an open-source Python library that supports popular model compression techniques such as quantization, pruning (sparsity), distillation, and neural architecture search on mainstream frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, ONNX Runtime, and MXNet. It provides key features, typical examples, and open collaborations, including support for a wide range of Intel hardware, validation of popular LLMs, and collaboration with cloud marketplaces, software platforms, and open AI ecosystems.

Awesome Agents is a curated list of open source AI agents designed for various tasks such as private interactions with documents, chat implementations, autonomous research, human-behavior simulation, code generation, HR queries, domain-specific research, and more. The agents leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) and other generative AI technologies to provide solutions for complex tasks and projects. The repository includes a diverse range of agents for different use cases, from conversational chatbots to AI coding engines, and from autonomous HR assistants to vision task solvers.

AstrBot is a powerful and versatile tool that leverages the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-4 to enhance communication and automate tasks. It seamlessly integrates with popular messaging platforms such as QQ, QQ Channel, and Telegram, enabling users to harness the power of AI within their daily conversations and workflows.

Databend is an open-source cloud data warehouse built in Rust, offering fast query execution and data ingestion for complex analysis of large datasets. It integrates with major cloud platforms, provides high performance with AI-powered analytics, supports multiple data formats, ensures data integrity with ACID transactions, offers flexible indexing options, and features community-driven development. Users can try Databend through a serverless cloud or Docker installation, and perform tasks such as data import/export, querying semi-structured data, managing users/databases/tables, and utilizing AI functions.

Podwise is an AI knowledge management app designed specifically for podcast listeners. With the Podwise platform, you only need to follow your favorite podcasts, such as "Hardcore Hackers". When a program is released, Podwise will use AI to transcribe, extract, summarize, and analyze the podcast content, helping you to break down the hard-core podcast knowledge. At the same time, it is connected to platforms such as Notion, Obsidian, Logseq, and Readwise, embedded in your knowledge management workflow, and integrated with content from other channels including news, newsletters, and blogs, helping you to improve your second brain 🧠.

Intel® Extension for Transformers is an innovative toolkit designed to accelerate GenAI/LLM everywhere with the optimal performance of Transformer-based models on various Intel platforms, including Intel Gaudi2, Intel CPU, and Intel GPU. The toolkit provides the below key features and examples: * Seamless user experience of model compressions on Transformer-based models by extending [Hugging Face transformers](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers) APIs and leveraging [Intel® Neural Compressor](https://github.com/intel/neural-compressor) * Advanced software optimizations and unique compression-aware runtime (released with NeurIPS 2022's paper [Fast Distilbert on CPUs](https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.07715) and [QuaLA-MiniLM: a Quantized Length Adaptive MiniLM](https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.17114), and NeurIPS 2021's paper [Prune Once for All: Sparse Pre-Trained Language Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.05754)) * Optimized Transformer-based model packages such as [Stable Diffusion](examples/huggingface/pytorch/text-to-image/deployment/stable_diffusion), [GPT-J-6B](examples/huggingface/pytorch/text-generation/deployment), [GPT-NEOX](examples/huggingface/pytorch/language-modeling/quantization#2-validated-model-list), [BLOOM-176B](examples/huggingface/pytorch/language-modeling/inference#BLOOM-176B), [T5](examples/huggingface/pytorch/summarization/quantization#2-validated-model-list), [Flan-T5](examples/huggingface/pytorch/summarization/quantization#2-validated-model-list), and end-to-end workflows such as [SetFit-based text classification](docs/tutorials/pytorch/text-classification/SetFit_model_compression_AGNews.ipynb) and [document level sentiment analysis (DLSA)](workflows/dlsa) * [NeuralChat](intel_extension_for_transformers/neural_chat), a customizable chatbot framework to create your own chatbot within minutes by leveraging a rich set of [plugins](https://github.com/intel/intel-extension-for-transformers/blob/main/intel_extension_for_transformers/neural_chat/docs/advanced_features.md) such as [Knowledge Retrieval](./intel_extension_for_transformers/neural_chat/pipeline/plugins/retrieval/README.md), [Speech Interaction](./intel_extension_for_transformers/neural_chat/pipeline/plugins/audio/README.md), [Query Caching](./intel_extension_for_transformers/neural_chat/pipeline/plugins/caching/README.md), and [Security Guardrail](./intel_extension_for_transformers/neural_chat/pipeline/plugins/security/README.md). This framework supports Intel Gaudi2/CPU/GPU. * [Inference](https://github.com/intel/neural-speed/tree/main) of Large Language Model (LLM) in pure C/C++ with weight-only quantization kernels for Intel CPU and Intel GPU (TBD), supporting [GPT-NEOX](https://github.com/intel/neural-speed/tree/main/neural_speed/models/gptneox), [LLAMA](https://github.com/intel/neural-speed/tree/main/neural_speed/models/llama), [MPT](https://github.com/intel/neural-speed/tree/main/neural_speed/models/mpt), [FALCON](https://github.com/intel/neural-speed/tree/main/neural_speed/models/falcon), [BLOOM-7B](https://github.com/intel/neural-speed/tree/main/neural_speed/models/bloom), [OPT](https://github.com/intel/neural-speed/tree/main/neural_speed/models/opt), [ChatGLM2-6B](https://github.com/intel/neural-speed/tree/main/neural_speed/models/chatglm), [GPT-J-6B](https://github.com/intel/neural-speed/tree/main/neural_speed/models/gptj), and [Dolly-v2-3B](https://github.com/intel/neural-speed/tree/main/neural_speed/models/gptneox). Support AMX, VNNI, AVX512F and AVX2 instruction set. We've boosted the performance of Intel CPUs, with a particular focus on the 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor, codenamed [Sapphire Rapids](https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/processors/xeon-accelerated/4th-gen-xeon-scalable-processors.html).

Databend is an open-source cloud data warehouse that serves as a cost-effective alternative to Snowflake. With its focus on fast query execution and data ingestion, it's designed for complex analysis of the world's largest datasets.

Chat-xiuliu is a bidirectional voice assistant powered by ChatGPT, capable of accessing the internet, executing code, reading/writing files, and supporting GPT-4V's image recognition feature. It can also call DALL·E 3 to generate images. The project is a fork from a background of a virtual cat girl named Xiuliu, with removed live chat interaction and added voice input. It can receive questions from microphone or interface, answer them vocally, upload images and PDFs, process tasks through function calls, remember conversation content, search the web, generate images using DALL·E 3, read/write local files, execute JavaScript code in a sandbox, open local files or web pages, customize the cat girl's speaking style, save conversation screenshots, and support Azure OpenAI and other API endpoints in openai format. It also supports setting proxies and various AI models like GPT-4, GPT-3.5, and DALL·E 3.

TiDB is an open-source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

Awesome-AI-Agents is a curated list of projects, frameworks, benchmarks, platforms, and related resources focused on autonomous AI agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs). The repository showcases a wide range of applications, multi-agent task solver projects, agent society simulations, and advanced components for building and customizing AI agents. It also includes frameworks for orchestrating role-playing, evaluating LLM-as-Agent performance, and connecting LLMs with real-world applications through platforms and APIs. Additionally, the repository features surveys, paper lists, and blogs related to LLM-based autonomous agents, making it a valuable resource for researchers, developers, and enthusiasts in the field of AI.

A decentralized, AI-driven system accelerating the Open Mainet Pi Network, connecting global banks for secure, efficient, and autonomous transactions. The Pi-Nexus Autonomous Banking Network is built using Raspberry Pi devices and allows for the creation of a decentralized, autonomous banking system.

Tock is an open conversational AI platform for building bots. It offers a natural language processing open source stack compatible with various tools, a user interface for building stories and analytics, a conversational DSL for different programming languages, built-in connectors for text/voice channels, toolkits for custom web/mobile integration, and the ability to deploy anywhere in the cloud or on-premise with Docker.

Open-Sora-Plan is a project that aims to create a simple and scalable repo to reproduce Sora (OpenAI, but we prefer to call it "ClosedAI"). The project is still in its early stages, but the team is working hard to improve it and make it more accessible to the open-source community. The project is currently focused on training an unconditional model on a landscape dataset, but the team plans to expand the scope of the project in the future to include text2video experiments, training on video2text datasets, and controlling the model with more conditions.

Webots is an open-source robot simulator that provides a complete development environment to model, program, and simulate robots, vehicles, and mechanical systems. It was originally designed at EPFL in 1996 and further developed and commercialized by Cyberbotics since 1998. Webots was open-sourced in December 2018 and continues to be developed by Cyberbotics with paid customer support, training, and consulting services for industry and academic research projects.

AiScript is a lightweight scripting language that runs on JavaScript. It supports arrays, objects, and functions as first-class citizens, and is easy to write without the need for semicolons or commas. AiScript runs in a secure sandbox environment, preventing infinite loops from freezing the host. It also allows for easy provision of variables and functions from the host.

AskUI is a reliable, automated end-to-end automation tool that only depends on what is shown on your screen instead of the technology or platform you are running on.

The 'bots' repository is a collection of guides, tools, and example bots for programming bots to play video games. It provides resources on running bots live, installing the BotLab client, debugging bots, testing bots in simulated environments, and more. The repository also includes example bots for games like EVE Online, Tribal Wars 2, and Elvenar. Users can learn about developing bots for specific games, syntax of the Elm programming language, and tools for memory reading development. Additionally, there are guides on bot programming, contributing to BotLab, and exploring Elm syntax and core library.

Ain is a terminal HTTP API client designed for scripting input and processing output via pipes. It allows flexible organization of APIs using files and folders, supports shell-scripts and executables for common tasks, handles url-encoding, and enables sharing the resulting curl, wget, or httpie command-line. Users can put things that change in environment variables or .env-files, and pipe the API output for further processing. Ain targets users who work with many APIs using a simple file format and uses curl, wget, or httpie to make the actual calls.

LaVague is an open-source Large Action Model framework that uses advanced AI techniques to compile natural language instructions into browser automation code. It leverages Selenium or Playwright for browser actions. Users can interact with LaVague through an interactive Gradio interface to automate web interactions. The tool requires an OpenAI API key for default examples and offers a Playwright integration guide. Contributors can help by working on outlined tasks, submitting PRs, and engaging with the community on Discord. The project roadmap is available to track progress, but users should exercise caution when executing LLM-generated code using 'exec'.

Robocorp is a platform that allows users to create, deploy, and operate Python automations and AI actions. It provides an easy way to extend the capabilities of AI agents, assistants, and copilots with custom actions written in Python. Users can create and deploy tools, skills, loaders, and plugins that securely connect any AI Assistant platform to their data and applications. The Robocorp Action Server makes Python scripts compatible with ChatGPT and LangChain by automatically creating and exposing an API based on function declaration, type hints, and docstrings. It simplifies the process of developing and deploying AI actions, enabling users to interact with AI frameworks effortlessly.

Open Interface is a self-driving software that automates computer tasks by sending user requests to a language model backend (e.g., GPT-4V) and simulating keyboard and mouse inputs to execute the steps. It course-corrects by sending current screenshots to the language models. The tool supports MacOS, Linux, and Windows, and requires setting up the OpenAI API key for access to GPT-4V. It can automate tasks like creating meal plans, setting up custom language model backends, and more. Open Interface is currently not efficient in accurate spatial reasoning, tracking itself in tabular contexts, and navigating complex GUI-rich applications. Future improvements aim to enhance the tool's capabilities with better models trained on video walkthroughs. The tool is cost-effective, with user requests priced between $0.05 - $0.20, and offers features like interrupting the app and primary display visibility in multi-monitor setups.

AI-Case-Sorter-CS7.1 is a project focused on building a case sorter using machine vision and machine learning AI to sort cases by headstamp. The repository includes Arduino code and 3D models necessary for the project.