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# GitHub hosted 5.6 million AI projects in 2025, up 54% in a year
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/github-ai-projects/
- Published: 2026-10-19T06:31:16.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:04:23.000Z
- Description: The number of AI projects on GitHub rose 54% in 2025 to about 5.6 million, from 3.6 million in 2024 and 1.1 million in 2020.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Models, Open Source AI, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-models

5.6M

▲ 54% vs 2024

AI-related projects on GitHub in 2025

20112025

## What the chart shows

GitHub counted about 5.6 million AI-related projects in 2025, up 54% from 3.6 million in 2024\. In 2020 there were 1.1 million.

Most of these repositories are personal or experimental and get little attention; the [related chart](https://aiadoption.org/data/github-ai-projects-10-stars/) filters for projects with at least 10 stars.

## Key numbers

| Measure | Value |
| ------- | ----- |
| 2025    | 5.58M |
| 2024    | 3.62M |
| 2023    | 2.55M |
| 2020    | 1.07M |

## How to read it

- GitHub classifies a project as AI-related using its topics, descriptions and code.
- Projects are counted in the year they were created or active, as defined by GitHub.

**Source:** [GitHub](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#github), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 1.5.1: *Number of GitHub AI projects, 2011–25*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 19 October 2026.  
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