Today we're launching the Builder Series — a long-running spotlight on the people around the world doing meaningful work with open-source AI. Builders making tools with social impact, contributing back to the open-source ecosystem, and shipping projects on open models.

Featherless exists because of this community, and we've been doing our best to help you keep creating. Just in 2026:

3,000+ builders sponsored.

19 countries, 60+ cities.

6,000+ model creators hosted on Featherless.

What you get

The Builder Series is the next step. Builders we feature can get:

  • Free Featherless access. The model access and serverless inference you need to keep building, on us.
  • Support. Both technical — engineering help when you hit a wall — and awareness: we'll get your work in front of the people who should see it.
  • Community. Direct connections with the other builders we feature, and the broader open-source AI ecosystem we're part of.

Who we're looking for

If you're building something meaningful with open-source AI, or you know someone who is, we'd love to hear about it. You don't have to be famous, or backed, or shipping at scale. Some of the work we're most excited about hasn't shown up in the usual places yet — the side project that turned into a small business, the research tool that got passed around a lab, the app someone built for their grandmother and ten of her friends.

Submit your story →

The first profiles drop next month. Until then, keep creating.

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