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What is climbing fastest across every source

Anthropic6.0xblack-forest-labs7.0xflux-37.0xChinese7.1xScion7.5xOpenRouter5.8xMononoke7.6xNvidia5.8xLearning6.5xMicrosoft6.5x

New on OpenRouter: Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview

OpenRouter adds Moondream 3 Preview, a vision-language model with nine billion total parameters and two billion active parameters that handles visual question answering, captioning, OCR, and visual reasoning. ·

OpenRouter4h ago▲openrouter.ai

PointWormGazebo/panel-all-in-one-any-game

PointWormGazebo offers a universal cheat panel that provides AI-enhanced aimbot and per-game precision tuning for various video games. ·

A new repository with 122 stars in its first week.

GitHub2h ago▲github.com

meta-models/Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B

A image text to text model from meta-models with 260 likes and 402 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face7h ago▲129 to 260 across 14 pollshuggingface.co

PointWormGazebo/panel-all-in-one-any-game

PointWormGazebo offers a universal cheat panel that provides AI-enhanced aimbot and per-game precision tuning for various video games. ·

A new repository with 122 stars in its first week.

GitHub2h ago▲github.com

meta-models/Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B

A image text to text model from meta-models with 260 likes and 402 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face7h ago▲129 to 260 across 14 pollshuggingface.co

ggml-org/llama.cpp v0.7.0

llama.cpp v0.7.0 adds LiliCorr speculative decoding, a GPU cache for host-memory experts, and support for models like K2 Horizon and Prism Bonsai 2. ·

GitHub Releases9h ago▲0 to 10 across 5 pollsgithub.com

Trending topics today: heat

Anthropic: 2.84Anthropic2.84black-forest-labs: 1.40black-forest-labs1.40flux-3: 1.40flux-31.40Chinese: 1.23Chinese1.23Scion: 1.08Scion1.08OpenRouter: 0.92OpenRouter0.92
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Anthropic2.84
black-forest-labs1.4
flux-31.4
Chinese1.23
Scion1.08
OpenRouter0.92

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

abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantized: 4,390abenzerps/Qwen-Image-…4,390google/embeddinggemma-2: 2,408google/embeddinggemma…2,408jialinyyzz/humanizer: 1,738jialinyyzz/humanizer1,738Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo: 881Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-T…881openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B: 794openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7…794fishaudio/drama-3 ▲5: 479fishaudio/drama-3 ▲5479
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abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantized4390
google/embeddinggemma-22408
jialinyyzz/humanizer1738
Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo881
openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B794
fishaudio/drama-3 ▲5479

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/

meta-models/Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B

A image text to text model from meta-models with 260 likes and 402 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face7h ago▲129 to 260 across 14 pollshuggingface.co

black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein

A image to image model from black-forest-labs with 234 likes and 3,241 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face8h ago▲128 to 234 across 16 pollshuggingface.co

meta-models/Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B

A image text to text model from meta-models with 260 likes and 402 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face7h ago▲129 to 260 across 14 pollshuggingface.co

black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein

A image to image model from black-forest-labs with 234 likes and 3,241 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face8h ago▲128 to 234 across 16 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

onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent: 2,492onehumanbeing/esp32-i…2,492rociiu/talorys: 1,159rociiu/talorys1,159marclou/mailcheap: 1,055marclou/mailcheap1,055zhuyansen/new-term-radar: 1,026zhuyansen/new-term-ra…1,026deeplethe/solid-glass: 1,016deeplethe/solid-glass1,016outcrawlai/scout: 832outcrawlai/scout832
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onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent2492
rociiu/talorys1159
marclou/mailcheap1055
zhuyansen/new-term-radar1026
deeplethe/solid-glass1016
outcrawlai/scout832

ggml-org/llama.cpp v0.7.0

llama.cpp v0.7.0 adds LiliCorr speculative decoding, a GPU cache for host-memory experts, and support for models like K2 Horizon and Prism Bonsai 2. ·

GitHub Releases9h ago▲0 to 10 across 5 pollsgithub.com

feder-cr/open_scion

Feder-cr releases open_scion, an open-source version control system designed specifically for coding agents. ·

GitHub13h ago▲171 to 714 across 12 pollsgithub.com

ggml-org/llama.cpp v0.7.0

llama.cpp v0.7.0 adds LiliCorr speculative decoding, a GPU cache for host-memory experts, and support for models like K2 Horizon and Prism Bonsai 2. ·

GitHub Releases9h ago▲0 to 10 across 5 pollsgithub.com

feder-cr/open_scion

Feder-cr releases open_scion, an open-source version control system designed specifically for coding agents. ·

GitHub13h ago▲171 to 714 across 12 pollsgithub.com

Infrastructure

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Data centers, power, chips and what tokens cost

Data-center and energy stories per day

Sat 10: 3Sat 103Sun 11: 7Sun 117Mon 12: 41Mon 1241Tue 13: 29Tue 1329Wed 14: 34Wed 1434Thu 15: 41Thu 1541Fri 16: 0Fri 160
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Sat 103
Sun 117
Mon 1241
Tue 1329
Wed 1434
Thu 1541
Fri 160

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 $2.09Max $5.00

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

Output price, $ per million tokens (newest models)

moondream3-preview: 2.50moondream3-preview2.50moondream3.1-9b-a2b: 2.50moondream3.1-9b-a2b2.50muse-spark-open: 4.25muse-spark-open4.25nemotron-3.5-super-vl: 0.50nemotron-3.5-super-vl0.50pareto-latest: 7.50pareto-latest7.50median, all paid models: 2median, all paid mode…2
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moondream3-preview2.5
moondream3.1-9b-a2b2.5
muse-spark-open4.25
nemotron-3.5-super-vl0.5
pareto-latest7.5
median, all paid models2

438 paid models listed; median of the 47 added in 30 days: $5.00. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.