# Bad Influence story: vLLM passes 4,000 GitHub contributors, per project announcement

Active · 3 articles · 1 source · First reported 11-11 01:36. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/f5bed829-031c-424f-98fc-f73ff0e41ac0

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Latest update (11-11 01:36): vLLM crosses 4,000 contributors on GitHub

Overview: The vLLM project announces on X that it has passed 4,000 contributors on GitHub. The project says it began as a research project at UC Berkeley and describes itself as an open-source LLM inference engine for model serving. The count comes from the project's own post; no independent source is cited.

Coverage timeline (newest first):
1. 11-11 02:10 · vLLM · [vLLM passes 4,000 contributors on GitHub](https://badinfluence.news/items/hl360ulmoaer81n0kxvrgqnes)
2. 11-11 01:58 · vLLM · [vLLM passes 4,000 contributors on GitHub](https://badinfluence.news/items/r1lpwkpsq141e7dgpi92e6cr2)
3. 11-11 01:36 · vLLM · [vLLM crosses 4,000 contributors on GitHub](https://badinfluence.news/items/rlg7lb5f0r9w7h22wg3j30bhc)
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