🏆 Meet the winners of the Open Source AI Awards 2026!
Celebrating the people and projects moving open source AI forward:
• The Bedrock Award — Best AI Infrastructure:
vLLM (
@vllm_project), represented by Richard Bian (
@RichSFO).
• The Reward Signal Award — Best Reinforcement Learning Project:
Harbor (
@harborframework) from Laude Institute, represented by Ryan Marten (
@ryan_marten).
• The Reality Check Award — Best Benchmark or Evaluation:
ExploitGym from UC Berkeley RDI, represented by Zhun Wang.
• The Guardrails Award — Best Security & Alignment Project:
NeMo Guardrails from NVIDIA (
@NVIDIAAI), represented by Jean Kossaifi (
@JeanKossaifi).
• The Community Lifeline Award — Outstanding Community Support:
Daniel Han (
@danielhanchen), co-founder of Unsloth AI (
@UnslothAI).
• The Unsung Maintainer Award — Outstanding Project Stewardship:
Quentin Gallouédec (
@QGallouedec), TRL maintainer at Hugging Face (
@huggingface).
• The Mission Control Award — Best Agentic Harness:
Hermes Agent from Nous Research (
@NousResearch), represented by Sam Herring (
@yaboilyrical).
• The Glass Box Award — Best Observability Tool:
Arize Phoenix from Arize AI (
@arizeai), represented by Mikyo King (
@mikeldking).
• The Open Knowledge Award — Outstanding Educator:
Sebastian Raschka (
@rasbt), author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
• The Naming Things Is Hard Award — Most Spectacularly Questionable Project Name:
Alex Newman (
@thedotmack), creator of Claude Mem → CMEM.
Congratulations to all our winners, and thank you to everyone who nominated, voted, contributed, and joined us to celebrate! 🤍
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