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What is climbing fastest across every source

Claude7.0xOpenAI5.0xOpus 5.52.9x

shinshin86/mesh-avatar-studio

The mesh-avatar-studio project lets users convert a single illustration into an animated 2D mesh avatar using a coding agent and a local editor. ·

GitHub21h ago▲108 to 127 across 9 pollsgithub.com

facebook/sam3

A mask generation model from facebook with 3,755 likes and 2.2M downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face22h ago▲3731 to 3755 across 44 pollshuggingface.co

allenv0/SCM

allenv0 releases SCM, a macOS application that uses deep AI to search every photo and video frame in any folder. ·

GitHub+ Hacker News33h ago▲123 to 248 across 9 pollsgithub.com

shinshin86/mesh-avatar-studio

The mesh-avatar-studio project lets users convert a single illustration into an animated 2D mesh avatar using a coding agent and a local editor. ·

GitHub21h ago▲108 to 127 across 9 pollsgithub.com

allenv0/SCM

allenv0 releases SCM, a macOS application that uses deep AI to search every photo and video frame in any folder. ·

A new repository written in JavaScript with 248 stars in its first week.

GitHub+ Hacker News33h ago▲123 to 248 across 9 pollsgithub.com

Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1

A text generation model from Aleph-Alpha with 393 likes and 1,135 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face34h ago▲113 to 393 across 69 pollshuggingface.co

Trending topics today: heat

Claude: 1.50Claude1.50OpenAI: 0.50OpenAI0.50Opus 5.5: 0.29Opus 5.50.29
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Claude1.5
OpenAI0.5
Opus 5.50.29

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: 6,310Lightricks/LTX-2.56,310convaiinnovations/laya: 5,163convaiinnovations/laya5,163abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF: 3,140abenzerps/Qwen-Image-…3,140Cloudflare/clef: 1,209Cloudflare/clef1,209Cloudflare/clef-flash ▲3: 427Cloudflare/clef-fl… ▲3427Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1 ▲8: 393Aleph-Alpha/Kolibr… ▲8393
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Lightricks/LTX-2.56310
convaiinnovations/laya5163
abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF3140
Cloudflare/clef1209
Cloudflare/clef-flash ▲3427
Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1 ▲8393

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/

Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1

A text generation model from Aleph-Alpha with 393 likes and 1,135 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face34h ago▲113 to 393 across 69 pollshuggingface.co

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

A text generation model from Venastine-Research with 279 likes and 14.4k downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face37h ago▲122 to 279 across 75 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 News39h ago▲20 to 981 across 110 pollsdiscussaleph-alpha.com

Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1

A text generation model from Aleph-Alpha with 393 likes and 1,135 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face34h ago▲113 to 393 across 69 pollshuggingface.co

X voices

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

GitHub

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New repos, releases and changelog

New AI repos this week: stars

CopilotKit/OpenDots: 3,201CopilotKit/OpenDots3,201rehan-remade/universal-modder: 3,187rehan-remade/universa…3,187feder-cr/dots: 2,601feder-cr/dots2,601nanaism/yomiyasu: 1,391nanaism/yomiyasu1,391QingYunA/answer-me-with-html: 1,048QingYunA/answer-me-wi…1,048nykooi1/vibe-wise: 1,045nykooi1/vibe-wise1,045
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CopilotKit/OpenDots3201
rehan-remade/universal-modder3187
feder-cr/dots2601
nanaism/yomiyasu1391
QingYunA/answer-me-with-html1048
nykooi1/vibe-wise1045

allenv0/SCM

allenv0 releases SCM, a macOS application that uses deep AI to search every photo and video frame in any folder. ·

GitHub+ Hacker News33h ago▲123 to 248 across 9 pollsgithub.com

dakukibana/short-video-generator

The open-source tool short-video-generator converts long videos into short clips using automatic highlights, subtitles, hooks, cropping, translation, and voiceover features. ·

GitHub32h ago▲github.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. ·

GitHub37h ago▲114 to 382 across 25 pollsgithub.com

allenv0/SCM

allenv0 releases SCM, a macOS application that uses deep AI to search every photo and video frame in any folder. ·

A new repository written in JavaScript with 248 stars in its first week.

GitHub+ Hacker News33h ago▲123 to 248 across 9 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. ·

GitHub37h ago▲114 to 382 across 25 pollsgithub.com

Adolanium/hermes-gadget-sdk

Adolanium publishes a software development kit that lets users build small ESP32 voice gadgets for their own Hermes Agent, including push-to-talk firmware and a desktop simulator. ·

GitHub39h ago▲108 to 179 across 9 pollsgithub.com

Infrastructure

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Data centers, power, chips and what tokens cost

Data-center and energy stories per day

Tue 29: 33Tue 2933Wed 30: 34Wed 3034Thu 01: 26Thu 0126Fri 02: 32Fri 0232Sat 03: 0Sat 030Sun 04: 3Sun 043Mon 05: 0Mon 050
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Tue 2933
Wed 3034
Thu 0126
Fri 0232
Sat 030
Sun 043
Mon 050

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 $3.20Min $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 47 added in 30 days: $3.20. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.