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 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, 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.
Download the data (CSV) · Cite this chart
Numbers checked against the published data on 19 October 2026.
Download the data (CSV) · Cite this chart
Discussion