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What is climbing fastest across every source

Claude7.0xOpenAI4.7xOpus 5.52.8x

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. ·

GitHub22h ago▲108 to 134 across 10 pollsgithub.com

facebook/sam3

A mask generation model from facebook with 3,756 likes and 2.2M downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face24h ago▲3731 to 3756 across 46 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 News34h ago▲123 to 258 across 10 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. ·

GitHub22h ago▲108 to 134 across 10 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 258 stars in its first week.

GitHub+ Hacker News34h ago▲123 to 258 across 10 pollsgithub.com

Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1

A text generation model from Aleph-Alpha with 400 likes and 1,135 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face35h ago▲113 to 400 across 71 pollshuggingface.co

Trending topics today: heat

Claude: 1.43Claude1.43OpenAI: 0.47OpenAI0.47Opus 5.5: 0.28Opus 5.50.28
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Claude1.43
OpenAI0.47
Opus 5.50.28

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: 6,316Lightricks/LTX-2.56,316convaiinnovations/laya: 5,165convaiinnovations/laya5,165abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF: 3,145abenzerps/Qwen-Image-…3,145Cloudflare/clef: 1,219Cloudflare/clef1,219Cloudflare/clef-flash ▲2: 429Cloudflare/clef-fl… ▲2429Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1 ▲6: 400Aleph-Alpha/Kolibr… ▲6400
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Lightricks/LTX-2.56316
convaiinnovations/laya5165
abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF3145
Cloudflare/clef1219
Cloudflare/clef-flash ▲2429
Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1 ▲6400

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 400 likes and 1,135 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face35h ago▲113 to 400 across 71 pollshuggingface.co

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

A text generation model from Venastine-Research with 288 likes and 14.4k downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face38h ago▲122 to 288 across 77 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 News40h ago▲20 to 981 across 111 pollsdiscussaleph-alpha.com

Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1

A text generation model from Aleph-Alpha with 400 likes and 1,135 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face35h ago▲113 to 400 across 71 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: 3,212CopilotKit/OpenDots3,212rehan-remade/universal-modder: 3,212rehan-remade/universa…3,212feder-cr/dots: 2,603feder-cr/dots2,603nanaism/yomiyasu: 1,397nanaism/yomiyasu1,397QingYunA/answer-me-with-html: 1,070QingYunA/answer-me-wi…1,070nykooi1/vibe-wise: 1,060nykooi1/vibe-wise1,060
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CopilotKit/OpenDots3212
rehan-remade/universal-modder3212
feder-cr/dots2603
nanaism/yomiyasu1397
QingYunA/answer-me-with-html1070
nykooi1/vibe-wise1060

allenv0/SCM

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

GitHub+ Hacker News34h ago▲123 to 258 across 10 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. ·

GitHub33h ago▲117 to 125 across 2 pollsgithub.com

gotoanto/text-humanizer

Gotoanto develops a multi-language text rewriting tool intended to help users bypass AI detection services such as GPTZero and Turnitin. ·

GitHub33h ago▲github.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 258 stars in its first week.

GitHub+ Hacker News34h ago▲123 to 258 across 10 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. ·

GitHub33h ago▲117 to 125 across 2 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. ·

GitHub38h ago▲114 to 384 across 26 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.