LAION-AI/Open-Assistant
★ 37,369 stars
Covered in week 2026-W30 · the 2026-07 report
OpenAssistant is a chat-based assistant that understands tasks, can interact with third-party systems, and retrieve information dynamically to do so.
What Open-Assistant is
Open Assistant is a project meant to give everyone access to a great chat based large language model.
From the repository README · read it on GitHub →
Transcript
Building a chat assistant that does things usually means wrestling with closed-source models and opaque APIs. Open-Assistant breaks that wall—it's a chat-based AI that understands tasks, interacts with third-party systems, and retrieves information dynamically, all in the open. 37,000 stars on GitHub prove the demand for transparent AI. Would you use an open-source assistant?