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One Year of OpenHands: A Journey of Open Source AI Development — OpenHands Blog

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Key
neubig2025oneyear
Authors
Neubig, Graham
Issued
2025-3-17
Type
post-weblog
Container
OpenHands Blog
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Claims

  1. Neubig writes that the project began on March 12, 2024 under the name OpenDevin, an homage to Devin by Cognition, and was created by Binyuan Hui and Junyang Lin, both members of the team developing the Qwen language models. He, Robert Brennan, and Xingyao Wang joined early; the three then founded All Hands AI, and the project was renamed OpenHands. By March 2025 he reported over 50,000 GitHub stars, more than 3,500 commits, and over 250 unique contributors.
    "OpenHands began on March 12, 2024 ... originally created as OpenDevin, an homage to Devin by Cognition ... created by Binyuan Hui and Junyang Lin, who are part of the team developing Qwen ... these three contributors joined forces to create All Hands AI ... and the project was also renamed to OpenHands"
    Locator: section: The Origin Story; Growth and Impact · Quote language: en
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