Open Source Grants v2 Announced
These grants support practical AI tools and infrastructure that developers in ASEAN can use to build faster, more efficient applications locally.
Guillermo Rauch announced v2 of his open source grants, providing $1,000 USD to 35 contributors.
The grants focus on five themes: Agent skills & tools, Local AI projects, Performance improvements, High quality foundations, and Cool experiments.
Notable projects include pgbot, slotsream, LocalAI, colibri, fff, takumi, PerrTS, porffor, gpui, shadcn, Svelte(kit), and gloom.
sh.The grants are personal, not affiliated with Vercel, and fully unconditional.
▲ ~/𝚛𝚊𝚞𝚌𝚑𝚐/𝚘𝚜𝚜-𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚜/ 𝚕𝚜▐ (v2) I'm announcing v2 of my open source grants of $1,000USD to 35 awesome contributors. The themes: ① Agent skills & tools Skills are now a valuable form of software, like Emil's world-class design eng work. Projects like 𝚙𝚐𝚋𝚘𝚝, 𝚔𝚗𝚒𝚙, 𝚞𝚗𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚎 create amazing AI engineering loops. ② Local AI Projects like 𝚜𝚕𝚘𝚝𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖, 𝙻𝚘𝚌𝚊𝚕𝙰𝙸, and 𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚒𝚋𝚛𝚒 are making inference not just a demo but for many a real and growing utility. Exciting to watch local AI unfold. ③ Performance There's no excuse for software to be slow anymore. Projects like 𝚏𝚏𝚏 and 𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚞𝚖𝚒 leading with speed, compilers like 𝙿𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚢𝚃𝚂 and 𝚙𝚘𝚛𝚏𝚏𝚘𝚛 that can help us upgrade entire ecosystems to native, and 𝚐𝚙𝚞𝚒𝚡 pushing the GPU rendering speed frontier. ④ High quality foundations AI is still at its best when it can reuse great components than regenerating every time from first principles. Lots of love to folks working on @shadcn , Svelte(kit), gloom.sh ity foundations. ⑤ Cool experiments I couldn't resist donating to https://t.co/j9XATP rauchg-oss-grants.vercel.app al in the terminal', or beautiful funky things like 𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛-𝚔𝚒𝚝. 🔗 https://t.co/tkCpYPkHxH PS: These are personal, not affiliated with Vercel, and fully unconditional. If you are listed, I'll be DM'ing you or using your public contact info!📊 110 ⚡
This report is categorized under AITOP's "Industry" desk. Within our cross-regional analytical framework, it directly maps to AI developer toolchains, coding agents, and engineering workflows. Key entities and technical topics under continuous tracking include rauchg, open source, agents, local AI.
Source attribution: curated from Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg).
