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# AI projects on GitHub gained 18.2 million stars in 2025
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/github-stars-ai-projects/
- Published: 2026-10-19T06:31:10.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:04:24.000Z
- Description: GitHub users starred AI projects 18.2 million times in 2025, up 33% from 13.6 million in 2024.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Models, Open Source AI, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-models

18.2M

▲ 33% vs 2024

stars given to AI projects on GitHub in 2025

20112025

## What the chart shows

GitHub users gave AI projects 18.2 million stars in 2025, up 33% from 13.6 million in 2024\. Stars more than doubled between 2022 (5.7 million) and 2023 (12.9 million).

## Key numbers

| Measure | Value  |
| ------- | ------ |
| 2025    | 18.18M |
| 2024    | 13.62M |
| 2023    | 12.86M |
| 2022    | 5.73M  |

## How to read it

- A star is one user bookmarking one project; it signals interest, not use.

**Source:** [GitHub](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#github), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 1.5.4: *Number of GitHub stars in AI projects, 2011–25*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 19 October 2026.  
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