microsoft/AI-For-Beginners

12 Weeks, 24 Lessons, AI for All!

69.8k stars · 13.5k forks · Jupyter Notebook

Caution

Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.

Why

One person wrote 73% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)
Star growth includes 5 unexplained bursts, about 15,475 stars above the usual rate (22 % of all stars). Anyone can buy stars for any repo. (source 1)

What would change this

A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
A new star analysis that no longer finds unexplained bursts.

Maintenance

Complete

Steady

Human commits, 30 days: 0
Human commits, 90 days: 42
Human commits, 365 days: 139
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 70%
Last commit: Sep 4, 2026 (1 month ago)
Last human commit: Sep 4, 2026 (1 month ago)
Authors, 90 days: 15
Last release: none found
Median PR merge time: 8 days

Responsiveness: of 30 recent issues, 80% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 3 days.

Most commits in the last year come from bots.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 139 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 1
Authors for 80% of commits: 6
Contributors: 85

Top committers

leestott: 73% of commits
a912289748: 2% of commits
skytin1004: 2% of commits
arawas-aieng: 1% of commits
AuditorDevansh: 1% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Unexplained bursts, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Mar 30, 2022 to Mar 31, 2022: about 41 more stars than usual, peak 24 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Apr 9, 2022 to Apr 12, 2022: about 39 more stars than usual, peak 14 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 25, 2022 to Jun 2, 2022: about 291 more stars than usual, peak 61 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Aug 8, 2022 to Aug 19, 2022: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 360 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jan 16, 2023 to Jan 26, 2023: about 1.3k more stars than usual, peak 385 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jan 30, 2023 to Feb 2, 2023: about 185 more stars than usual, peak 92 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jun 5, 2023 to Jul 4, 2023: about 8k more stars than usual, peak 931 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 6, 2023 to Nov 12, 2023: about 2k more stars than usual, peak 461 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Nov 25, 2023 to Dec 5, 2023: about 2.9k more stars than usual, peak 447 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 1, 2024 to Feb 3, 2024: about 119 more stars than usual, peak 91 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Mar 3, 2024 to Mar 14, 2024: about 1.7k more stars than usual, peak 426 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 6, 2024 to Jul 8, 2024: about 230 more stars than usual, peak 124 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Jun 26, 2025 to Jun 27, 2025: about 92 more stars than usual, peak 72 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jul 2, 2025 to Jul 5, 2025: about 149 more stars than usual, peak 68 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Sep 18, 2025 to Sep 30, 2025: about 2.2k more stars than usual, peak 522 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Dec 11, 2025 to Dec 13, 2025: about 105 more stars than usual, peak 66 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Feb 28, 2026 to Mar 3, 2026: about 228 more stars than usual, peak 122 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 28, 2026 to Jul 16, 2026: about 3.5k more stars than usual, peak 1.1k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 30, 2026 to Aug 14, 2026: about 10.9k more stars than usual, peak 2.3k in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.

The star history was reset at some point, so earlier stars aren't counted.
11 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

Unexplained bursts: stars arrived with no matching forks, issues, releases, or launch coverage.
Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.
The star history has a zero run of 26 weeks or more, so the analysis starts after it.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: MIT (OSI-approved)
A year ago: MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

Sources: GitHub: microsoft/AI-For-Beginners

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Caution
Oct 13, 2026: Caution
Oct 13, 2026: Caution

Computed 18 hours ago · method 2026.10.2