ArtCraft clones Photoshop with AI as open source, has shipped 17 tools and wants to 'rebuild everything'
altryne · x · 2026-11-13
At AI Engineer Code Summit day 3, themed around ambition, ArtCraft stood out: the startup has released 17 open-source rewrites of popular software, starting with PhotoCraft, a Photoshop alternative written from scratch in Rust.
- CEO Brandon Thomas presented a manifesto for AI-based open source, including PdfCraft, a clone of Adobe Acrobat, which drew applause.
- His rallying cries — 'let's take back the entire internet' and 'let's rebuild everything' — were met with cheers.
- Latent Space covered the vision as rebuilding closed software with AI coding agents.
A notable example of using AI coding to re-implement mature commercial software as fully open source.
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