GitHub & AI building
Open source
Definition
Software whose source code is available under a license that lets people use, study, change, and share it.
Visual example
Shared recipe book = open source
The kitchen connection
Think of a shared recipe book that lets anyone cook, adapt, and pass on the recipes under its house rules.
The illustration connects the AI idea to something familiar. Follow the subject, the action, and the result to see how it works.
- 01 · Who or what
- Shared recipe book = open source
- 02 · What happens
- Lets cooks use change and share
- 03 · The result
- Helps everyone build on shared work
Why it matters
It helps people reuse programs, AI tools, and skills instead of building everything from scratch. GitHub is a major home for code and skills; Hugging Face hosts AI models, datasets, and apps. Many projects are free to download, but check each license: a public listing or free download is not automatically open source, and hosting or support may still cost money.