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What is climbing fastest across every source

Anthropic6.0xblack-forest-labs6.8xflux-36.8xChinese7.1xScion7.7xLLMs5.1xAnalyzing6.7xOpenRouter5.8xMononoke6.7xNvidia5.8x

openai/codex 0.163.0

OpenAI releases Codex version 0.163.0, which adds parallel read-only tool execution and enables Daybreak by default for eligible accounts. ·

GitHub Releases12h ago▲0 to 10 across 6 pollsgithub.com

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

A image text to text model from meta-models with 337 likes and 402 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face14h ago▲129 to 337 across 28 pollshuggingface.co

Trending topics today: heat

Anthropic: 2.11Anthropic2.11black-forest-labs: 1.02black-forest-labs1.02flux-3: 1.02flux-31.02Chinese: 0.91Chinese0.91Scion: 0.80Scion0.80LLMs: 0.78LLMs0.78
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Anthropic2.11
black-forest-labs1.02
flux-31.02
Chinese0.91
Scion0.8
LLMs0.78

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: 4,405abenzerps/Qwen-Image-…4,405google/embeddinggemma-2: 2,442google/embeddinggemma…2,442jialinyyzz/humanizer: 1,774jialinyyzz/humanizer1,774Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo: 902Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-T…902openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B: 808openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7…808fishaudio/drama-3 ▲5: 501fishaudio/drama-3 ▲5501
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abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantized4405
google/embeddinggemma-22442
jialinyyzz/humanizer1774
Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo902
openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B808
fishaudio/drama-3 ▲5501

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/

Self-Evolving Agent Harness

Harness self-evolution revises agent software scaffolding while keeping model weights fixed. The framework separates update targets from proposal and admission mechanisms. ·

HF Daily Papers9h ago▲7 to 84 across 5 pollsarxiv.org

Self-Evolving Agent Harness

Harness self-evolution revises agent software scaffolding while keeping model weights fixed. The framework separates update targets from proposal and admission mechanisms. ·

HF Daily Papers9h ago▲7 to 84 across 5 pollsarxiv.org

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: 2,698onehumanbeing/esp32-i…2,698rociiu/talorys: 1,215rociiu/talorys1,215deeplethe/solid-glass: 1,209deeplethe/solid-glass1,209marclou/mailcheap: 1,089marclou/mailcheap1,089zhuyansen/new-term-radar: 1,045zhuyansen/new-term-ra…1,045feder-cr/open_scion: 1,027feder-cr/open_scion1,027
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onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent2698
rociiu/talorys1215
deeplethe/solid-glass1209
marclou/mailcheap1089
zhuyansen/new-term-radar1045
feder-cr/open_scion1027

openai/codex 0.163.0

OpenAI releases Codex version 0.163.0, which adds parallel read-only tool execution and enables Daybreak by default for eligible accounts. ·

New release rust-v0.163.0 of openai/codex on GitHub.

GitHub Releases12h ago▲0 to 10 across 6 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 Releases16h ago▲0 to 15 across 8 pollsgithub.com

feder-cr/open_scion

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

GitHub20h ago▲171 to 1027 across 19 pollsgithub.com

openai/codex 0.163.0

OpenAI releases Codex version 0.163.0, which adds parallel read-only tool execution and enables Daybreak by default for eligible accounts. ·

GitHub Releases12h ago▲0 to 10 across 6 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 Releases16h ago▲0 to 15 across 8 pollsgithub.com

feder-cr/open_scion

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

GitHub20h ago▲171 to 1027 across 19 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.