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What is climbing fastest across every source

OpenAI5.8xAnthropic5.6xAI-generated7.6xClaude5.8xOpus 5.57.0xGPU5.9xAgents5.5xCerebras4.2xGLM-5.33.7xGPT-62.6x

September sponsors-only newsletter

The author sends a September sponsors-only newsletter covering Fable models, pricing wars, and cyberattacks, offering a free August preview to encourage new subscriptions. ·

Simon Willison3h ago▲simonwillison.net

Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1

A text generation model from Aleph-Alpha with 249 likes and 0 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face10h ago▲113 to 249 across 21 pollshuggingface.co

Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1

A text generation model from Aleph-Alpha with 249 likes and 0 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face10h ago▲113 to 249 across 21 pollshuggingface.co

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

A text generation model from Venastine-Research with 178 likes and 11.0k downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face13h ago▲122 to 178 across 27 pollshuggingface.co

Jakeschincariol/replica-skill

Jakeschincariol publishes eleven free Claude skills under the MIT license that reverse-engineer, rebuild, and test applications to fix user complaints. ·

GitHub13h ago▲github.com

Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1

A text generation model from Aleph-Alpha with 249 likes and 0 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face10h ago▲113 to 249 across 21 pollshuggingface.co

Jakeschincariol/replica-skill

Jakeschincariol publishes eleven free Claude skills under the MIT license that reverse-engineer, rebuild, and test applications to fix user complaints. ·

GitHub13h ago▲github.com

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

A text generation model from Venastine-Research with 178 likes and 11.0k downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face13h ago▲122 to 178 across 27 pollshuggingface.co

Trending topics today: heat

OpenAI: 1.22OpenAI1.22Anthropic: 1.03Anthropic1.03AI-generated: 1.01AI-generated1.01Claude: 0.99Claude0.99Opus 5.5: 0.86Opus 5.50.86GPU: 0.76GPU0.76
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OpenAI1.22
Anthropic1.03
AI-generated1.01
Claude0.99
Opus 5.50.86
GPU0.76

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: 6,133Lightricks/LTX-2.5 ▲16,133convaiinnovations/laya ▼1: 5,077convaiinnovations/… ▼15,077abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF: 2,930abenzerps/Qwen-Image-…2,930Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1 ▲1: 2,899Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1 ▲12,899Cloudflare/clef ▲1: 986Cloudflare/clef ▲1986Contrastive-LM/CLM-v0.1-8B ▼2: 691Contrastive-LM/CLM… ▼2691
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Lightricks/LTX-2.5 ▲16133
convaiinnovations/laya ▼15077
abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF2930
Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1 ▲12899
Cloudflare/clef ▲1986
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 178 likes and 11.0k downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face13h ago▲122 to 178 across 27 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 News15h ago▲20 to 796 across 57 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 News15h ago▲20 to 796 across 57 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: 5,405KKKKhazix/AIHOT5,405rehan-remade/universal-modder: 2,629rehan-remade/universa…2,629feder-cr/dots: 2,573feder-cr/dots2,573CopilotKit/OpenDots: 2,504CopilotKit/OpenDots2,504firelex/jeff: 1,350firelex/jeff1,350nanaism/yomiyasu: 1,313nanaism/yomiyasu1,313
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KKKKhazix/AIHOT5405
rehan-remade/universal-modder2629
feder-cr/dots2573
CopilotKit/OpenDots2504
firelex/jeff1350
nanaism/yomiyasu1313

Jakeschincariol/replica-skill

Jakeschincariol publishes eleven free Claude skills under the MIT license that reverse-engineer, rebuild, and test applications to fix user complaints. ·

A new repository written in Python with 114 stars in its first week.

GitHub13h ago▲github.com

heise3/academic-deai

The academic-deai project offers Chinese and English editing services that reduce formulaic AI tone while preserving evidence, citations, and author voice. ·

GitHub21h ago▲github.com

blendi-remade/agentcraft

A new repository written in Java with 204 stars in its first week.

GitHub24h ago▲98 to 204 across 11 pollsgithub.com

Jakeschincariol/replica-skill

Jakeschincariol publishes eleven free Claude skills under the MIT license that reverse-engineer, rebuild, and test applications to fix user complaints. ·

A new repository written in Python with 114 stars in its first week.

GitHub13h ago▲github.com

blendi-remade/agentcraft

A new repository written in Java with 204 stars in its first week.

GitHub24h ago▲98 to 204 across 11 pollsgithub.com

heise3/academic-deai

The academic-deai project offers Chinese and English editing services that reduce formulaic AI tone while preserving evidence, citations, and author voice. ·

GitHub21h ago▲github.com

Shardarcairn12/Discord-Server-Raider

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

GitHub37h ago▲88 to 227 across 4 pollsgithub.com

Infrastructure

5 stories

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.