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10 Open Source AI Tools Every Developer Should Know

Emmanuel Mumba on July 28, 2025

AI is everywhere right now from flashy GPT-5 demos to enterprise copilots that promise to do your job for you. But if you're like me, you're more i...
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Miska Kovakova

Nice list! Always cool to learn more open source tools!

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Emmanuel Mumba

Glad you found it helpful.

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CHOMRAEUN CHIN

I'm really interested in the topics like this thanks and please share more

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Ariel Frischer

I'm sorry this is too clickbaity every dev does NOT need to know any of these actually. None of these are general purpose - mainstream tools like every website can use these are highly specialized AI tools. Nav2? Software engineers need Nav2 (Robot Operating System) - what are you smoking? I will die on this hill this list is bad. Was expecting things like Gitlab, Posthog, React, etc...

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Thomas Hansen

Magic Cloud - Notice, you can only use AI features on MacBook Mx CPU or Linux ...

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Justin Tremblay

quick question... between FastRAG and Axolotl, which would you recommend for building a local prototype that does basic doc search + fine-tuned LLM responses on a single GPU (24GB VRAM)?

Great list by the way, haven't seen any of these around

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Sumonta Saha Mridul

Useful Resources

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Sheraz Manzoor

Thanks for sharing, would definitely try these tools.

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PixelVanta

Thx for the list it's a golden

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Rodgers Nyangweso

Thank you for shring, open web ui is wesome