16 GitHub repos every AI engineer should know in 2026
If you’re building AI systems in production — or just getting started — these repos are worth bookmarking. LLM Serving & Inference vLLM (66k+ stars) — The industry standard for high-throughput LLM serving. Continuous batching and maximum GPU utilization. If you’re serving LLMs in production, this is probably what you should be using. Ollama (162k+ stars) — The easiest way to run LLMs locally. Great for fast experimentation before you commit to a cloud setup....
