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OpenFold

OpenFold is an open-source, trainable reproduction of DeepMind's AlphaFold2 protein-structure prediction model, built by a non-profit consortium and extended into OpenFold3 for cofolding proteins, nucleic acids, and small molecules.

OpenGL

OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a cross-platform, language-independent API for rendering 2D and 3D graphics, released in 1992 and governed by the Khronos Group, used in games, CAD, and virtual reality.

OpenGL ES

OpenGL ES, short for OpenGL for Embedded Systems, is a cross-platform, royalty-free graphics API defined by the Khronos Group for rendering 2D and 3D graphics on mobile devices.

openHAB

openHAB, or Open Home Automation Bus, is an open source, technology-agnostic home automation platform written in Java and governed by the German non-profit openHAB Foundation, integrating devices from many manufacturers behind a uniform interface.

OpenHands

OpenHands, formerly OpenDevin, is an open-source platform for AI coding agents, begun in March 2024 and developed by the company OpenHands, co-founded by Graham Neubig.

OpenHermes

OpenHermes is a series of open-source instruction-tuned large language models and an instruction dataset created by Teknium, best known for OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B, a Mistral 7B fine-tune released in November 2023.

OpenHistoricalMap

OpenHistoricalMap (OHM) is a community-led collaborative project to map natural and human geography across all periods of history, running on software adapted from OpenStreetMap with a time slider.

OpenID

OpenID is an open standard for decentralized single sign-on created by Brad Fitzpatrick in 2005; its successor, OpenID Connect, built on OAuth 2.0 in 2014, is used by billions.

OpenID Connect

OpenID Connect (OIDC) is an identity layer on top of the OAuth 2.0 authorization framework, ratified in 2014, that lets a client application verify an end user's identity.

OpenIGTLink

OpenIGTLink is an open-source network protocol for real-time communication among the computers and devices in image-guided therapy, including surgical navigation software, imaging scanners, and surgical robots.

OpenJDK

OpenJDK, the Open Java Development Kit, is the open-source implementation of Java Platform, Standard Edition, open-sourced in 2007 and the upstream for Oracle's JDK and most vendor distributions.

OpenLineage

OpenLineage is an open standard and API for data lineage collection from running pipelines, using Run, Job, and Dataset events with extensible facets. An LF AI & Data graduated project donated by Datakin, integrated with Airflow, Spark, dbt, Snowflake, and DataHub.

OpenLLaMA

OpenLLaMA is an open source, Apache 2.0 licensed reproduction of Meta AI's LLaMA language model, developed by OpenLM Research and trained on the open RedPajama dataset.

OpenMandriva Lx

OpenMandriva Lx is a free, independent Linux distribution descended from Mandriva Linux, developed by the OpenMandriva Association and notable as the first distribution built with the Clang compiler by default.

OpenMANIPULATOR-X

OpenMANIPULATOR-X is a small open source robotic arm platform from the South Korean robotics company ROBOTIS, with five degrees of freedom, a 380 mm reach, and ROS compatibility for education and research.

OpenMDW license

The OpenMDW license (Open Model, Data, and Weights) is a permissive, weights-first license for AI model distributions, published in 2025 by the Linux Foundation and used by NVIDIA for 19 models.

OpenMetadata

OpenMetadata is an open-source metadata platform (Apache-2.0 core, Collate commercial edition) unifying data catalog, lineage, quality, governance, and observability, with 130+ connectors, JSON Schema-first design, and an MCP server for AI agents; released 2021, version 2.0 in 2026.

OpenMMLab

OpenMMLab is an open-source family of PyTorch-based computer vision toolboxes such as MMDetection, launched in 2018 by the Multimedia Lab, a joint SenseTime and Chinese University of Hong Kong laboratory.

OpenMolcas

OpenMolcas is an open-source quantum chemistry software package for ab initio electronic structure calculations, known for multireference methods such as CASSCF and CASPT2, continuing the MOLCAS package since 2018.

OpenMP

OpenMP (Open Multi-Processing) is an API for shared-memory parallel programming in C, C++, and Fortran, built on compiler directives and governed by the OpenMP Architecture Review Board since its first specification in 1997.

OpenMRS

OpenMRS is an open-source electronic health record platform created in 2004 by the Regenstrief Institute and Partners In Health, now serving over 22 million patients in over 80 countries.

OpenMW

OpenMW is a free, open-source game engine that re-implements the engine of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, letting the game run natively on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org, often abbreviated OOo, was an open-source office productivity suite developed by a community project from 2000 to 2011, whose source code came from Sun Microsystems' StarOffice and which created the OpenDocument format.

OpenOrca

OpenOrca is an open-source instruction-tuning dataset for large language models, built by augmenting FLAN Collection prompts with about 1 million GPT-4 and 3.2 million GPT-3.5 responses.

OpenPGP

OpenPGP is an IETF Proposed Standard, defined in RFC 9580 in July 2024, specifying message formats for public key encryption, digital signatures, compression, and key management.

Openpilot

Openpilot is an open-source driver assistance system developed by comma.ai, released in 2016, that performs adaptive cruise control and lane centering on 335 supported production cars.

OpenPiton

OpenPiton is an open-source, general-purpose manycore processor research platform developed at Princeton University, published at ASPLOS in 2016 and configurable from one core up to 500 million cores.

OpenPlant

OpenPlant is a plant design software suite by Bentley Systems for 3D modeling of process and power plants in industries like oil and gas, chemicals, and power generation.

OpenPose

OpenPose is an open-source library for real-time multi-person 2D human pose estimation developed at Carnegie Mellon University, detecting body, hand, facial, and foot keypoints in images and video.

OpenPrescribing

OpenPrescribing is a free, open web platform for exploring English NHS primary-care prescribing data, built by the University of Oxford and launched in beta in December 2015.