whisper.cpp license, foundation and stars
Model serving and local AI · MIT (open source) · 55,038 stars
Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++
License history
LICENSE fileMIT No license change recorded since the repository was created in 2022.
Latest release
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About and history
- Repository
- ggml-org/whisper.cpp · created Sep 25, 2022
- Language
- C++
- Foundation
- None; run by its maintainers
- GitHub detects
- MIT
- Stars per week
- 160 (GitHub weekly snapshots)
Weekly snapshots
| Week of | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 2026 | 55,038 | |
| Oct 26, 2026 | 54,795 | |
| Oct 19, 2026 | 54,509 | |
| Oct 5, 2026 | 54,266 | |
| Sep 21, 2026 | 53,918 |