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What is climbing fastest across every source

OpenAI5.7xAnthropic6.5xClaude5.9xAI-generated7.6xGPU7.6xOpus 5.57.1xAgents5.5xCerebras4.4xGLM-5.33.7xGPT-62.6x

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Simon Willison2h ago▲simonwillison.net

Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1

A text generation model from Aleph-Alpha with 243 likes and 0 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face9h ago▲113 to 243 across 19 pollshuggingface.co

Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1

A text generation model from Aleph-Alpha with 243 likes and 0 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face9h ago▲113 to 243 across 19 pollshuggingface.co

Venastine-Research/Xing4.0-29B-A4B-GGUF

A text generation model from Venastine-Research with 171 likes and 11.0k downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face12h ago▲122 to 171 across 25 pollshuggingface.co

blendi-remade/agentcraft

A new repository written in Java with 198 stars in its first week.

GitHub23h ago▲98 to 198 across 10 pollsgithub.com

Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1

A text generation model from Aleph-Alpha with 243 likes and 0 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face9h ago▲113 to 243 across 19 pollshuggingface.co

Venastine-Research/Xing4.0-29B-A4B-GGUF

A text generation model from Venastine-Research with 171 likes and 11.0k downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face12h ago▲122 to 171 across 25 pollshuggingface.co

blendi-remade/agentcraft

A new repository written in Java with 198 stars in its first week.

GitHub23h ago▲98 to 198 across 10 pollsgithub.com

Trending topics today: heat

OpenAI: 1.24OpenAI1.24Anthropic: 1.24Anthropic1.24Claude: 1.06Claude1.06AI-generated: 1.05AI-generated1.05GPU: 1.03GPU1.03Opus 5.5: 0.92Opus 5.50.92
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OpenAI1.24
Anthropic1.24
Claude1.06
AI-generated1.05
GPU1.03
Opus 5.50.92

Heat = summed hotness of today's stories naming the topic.

Models

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Releases, papers, trending weights and new listings

Top 6 trending on Hugging Face: likes

Lightricks/LTX-2.5 ▲1: 6,131Lightricks/LTX-2.5 ▲16,131convaiinnovations/laya ▼1: 5,076convaiinnovations/… ▼15,076abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF ▼1: 2,926abenzerps/Qwen-Ima… ▼12,926Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1 ▲1: 2,899Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1 ▲12,899Cloudflare/clef ▲2: 979Cloudflare/clef ▲2979Contrastive-LM/CLM-v0.1-8B ▼2: 691Contrastive-LM/CLM… ▼2691
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Lightricks/LTX-2.5 ▲16131
convaiinnovations/laya ▼15076
abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF ▼12926
Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1 ▲12899
Cloudflare/clef ▲2979
Contrastive-LM/CLM-v0.1-8B ▼2691

PirateBench: score out of 100

gpt-6.1-sol: 99gpt-6.1-sol99opus-5-5: 96opus-5-596gpt-6-sol: 92gpt-6-sol92gpt-6-luna: 65gpt-6-luna65haiku-4-5: 4.28haiku-4-54.28
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gpt-6.1-sol98.9
opus-5-596.46
gpt-6-sol91.6
gpt-6-luna65.25
haiku-4-54.28

Agents build our own projects from a brief; every run, failures included: https://cowerx.dev/daily/piratebench/

Venastine-Research/Xing4.0-29B-A4B-GGUF

A text generation model from Venastine-Research with 171 likes and 11.0k downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face12h ago▲122 to 171 across 25 pollshuggingface.co

Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

Kolibri is an open-weight English-German Mixture-of-Experts model with 78 billion total parameters, 3 billion active parameters, and a one-million-token context window. ·

Hacker News14h ago▲20 to 771 across 52 pollsdiscussaleph-alpha.com

Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

Kolibri is an open-weight English-German Mixture-of-Experts model with 78 billion total parameters, 3 billion active parameters, and a one-million-token context window. ·

Hacker News14h ago▲20 to 771 across 52 pollsdiscussaleph-alpha.com

X voices

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X posts other sources are linking to, then named voices on Bluesky and Mastodon

GitHub

5 stories

New repos, releases and changelog

New AI repos this week: stars

KKKKhazix/AIHOT: 5,390KKKKhazix/AIHOT5,390Louis-CFM/coucou: 3,221Louis-CFM/coucou3,221rehan-remade/universal-modder: 2,621rehan-remade/universa…2,621feder-cr/dots: 2,573feder-cr/dots2,573CopilotKit/OpenDots: 2,463CopilotKit/OpenDots2,463firelex/jeff: 1,349firelex/jeff1,349
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KKKKhazix/AIHOT5390
Louis-CFM/coucou3221
rehan-remade/universal-modder2621
feder-cr/dots2573
CopilotKit/OpenDots2463
firelex/jeff1349

blendi-remade/agentcraft

A new repository written in Java with 198 stars in its first week.

GitHub23h ago▲98 to 198 across 10 pollsgithub.com

whirlchat/whirl

Whirlchat offers an AI chat application that integrates multiple leading models, persistent memory, editable documents, and user-defined tools. ·

GitHub34h ago▲106 to 252 across 9 pollsgithub.com

QingYunA/answer-me-with-html

QingYunA publishes a repository for an agent skill that answers complex questions using a single, readable HTML page. ·

GitHub38h ago▲114 to 303 across 14 pollsgithub.com

blendi-remade/agentcraft

A new repository written in Java with 198 stars in its first week.

GitHub23h ago▲98 to 198 across 10 pollsgithub.com

Shardarcairn12/Discord-Server-Raider

Shardarcairn12 develops Discord-Server-Raider, a tool that uses AI algorithms to monitor Discord server data in real time. ·

GitHub36h ago▲88 to 227 across 4 pollsgithub.com

whirlchat/whirl

Whirlchat offers an AI chat application that integrates multiple leading models, persistent memory, editable documents, and user-defined tools. ·

GitHub34h ago▲106 to 252 across 9 pollsgithub.com

QingYunA/answer-me-with-html

QingYunA publishes a repository for an agent skill that answers complex questions using a single, readable HTML page. ·

GitHub38h ago▲114 to 303 across 14 pollsgithub.com

Infrastructure

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Data centers, power, chips and what tokens cost

Data-center and energy stories per day

Mon 28: 20Mon 2820Tue 29: 33Tue 2933Wed 30: 34Wed 3034Thu 01: 26Thu 0126Fri 02: 32Fri 0232Sat 03: 0Sat 030Sun 04: 0Sun 040
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Mon 2820
Tue 2933
Wed 3034
Thu 0126
Fri 0232
Sat 030
Sun 040

Stories from DCD, Data Center Knowledge, EIA and Hacker News, by publication day.

Median output price of models added in the last 30 days, $ per million tokens

Last $5.00Min $2.85Max $5.00

One point per OpenRouter reading, last 8 days. Data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.

Output price, $ per million tokens (newest models)

pareto-26.10-preview: 3.20pareto-26.10-preview3.20gpt-6.1-sol-pro: 10gpt-6.1-sol-pro10gpt-6.1-sol: 10gpt-6.1-sol10claude-sonnet-5.5: 10claude-sonnet-5.510claude-sonnet-5.5:batch: 5claude-sonnet-5.5:bat…5median, all paid models: 2median, all paid mode…2
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pareto-26.10-preview3.2
gpt-6.1-sol-pro10
gpt-6.1-sol10
claude-sonnet-5.510
claude-sonnet-5.5:batch5
median, all paid models2

437 paid models listed; median of the 51 added in 30 days: $5.00. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.