Launching the Vite Ecosystem Fund

Cloudflare is distributing the first $301,300 of the Vite Ecosystem Fund to 44 projects and maintainers, part of a $1 million commitment made when VoidZero joined Cloudflare. The post argues that AI has made open source funding urgent by increasing AI-authored pull requests and maintainer burnout, and it describes the fund's selection panel and stipend structure of up to $4,000 per month at $50 per hour for eligible core maintainers.