Fanelli: LangChain and LlamaIndex usage grows on PyPI while CrewAI stays flat
Alessio Fanelli · 2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents · Jan 1, 2025 · at 53:17
Alessio Fanelli (investor at Decibel) analyzes package download statistics from PyPI versus GitHub star metrics across AI agent frameworks in late 2024.
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“So if you look at, you know, like chain still growing. These are the last, last six months. Lama index still growing. What I've basically seen is like things that one, obviously these things have a commercial product. So there's like people buying this and sticking with it versus kind of hopping in between things versus, you know, For example, crew AI, not really growing as much. The stars are growing. If you look on GitHub, like the stars are growing, but kind of like the usage is kind of like flat in the last six months.”
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