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What is climbing fastest across every source

Anthropic4.6xChinese7.1xnvidia6.7xA42B7.1xOpen-816B7.1xmeta-models7.1xClaude6.9xMuse Spark6.0xGemini 4 Argon6.1xWorld6.7x

nvidia/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP4-Local

A image text to text model from nvidia with 128 likes and 771 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face2h ago▲124 to 128 across 4 pollshuggingface.co

Closing the Skills Gap in Data Center Facilities Management

Data centers require skilled professionals, and collaboration between IT and facilities teams, along with proactive maintenance and remote monitoring, helps address workforce shortages. ·

Data Center Knowledge2h ago▲datacenterknowledge.com

nvidia/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP4-Local

A image text to text model from nvidia with 128 likes and 771 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face2h ago▲124 to 128 across 4 pollshuggingface.co

anujasid/mcp-for-blender-pro

Anujasid releases an AI assistant and MCP server for Blender that supports visual chat, scene tools, and multi-agent workflows. It integrates with OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, and OpenCode. ·

GitHub20h ago▲140 to 160 across 2 pollsgithub.com

Trending topics today: heat

Anthropic: 2.11Anthropic2.11Chinese: 1.44Chinese1.44nvidia: 1.13nvidia1.13A42B: 0.91A42B0.91Open-816B: 0.91Open-816B0.91meta-models: 0.91meta-models0.91
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Anthropic2.11
Chinese1.44
nvidia1.13
A42B0.91
Open-816B0.91
meta-models0.91

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 ▼1: 4,424abenzerps/Qwen-Ima… ▼14,424google/embeddinggemma-2: 2,496google/embeddinggemma…2,496jialinyyzz/humanizer: 1,813jialinyyzz/humanizer1,813Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo ▼1: 931Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.… ▼1931openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B ▲1: 835openbmb/MiniCPM-V-… ▲1835fishaudio/drama-3 ▲2: 539fishaudio/drama-3 ▲2539
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abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantized ▼14424
google/embeddinggemma-22496
jialinyyzz/humanizer1813
Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo ▼1931
openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B ▲1835
fishaudio/drama-3 ▲2539

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/

FDE-Gym: The Last Mile of AI Delivery

FDE-Gym is a benchmark of 95 delivery tasks from 20 customer scenarios across 18 sectors, where agents interact with stakeholders to improve customer success metrics. ·

HF Daily Papers19h ago▲2 to 229 across 10 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: 2,832onehumanbeing/esp32-i…2,832deeplethe/solid-glass: 1,347deeplethe/solid-glass1,347rociiu/talorys: 1,242rociiu/talorys1,242marclou/mailcheap: 1,128marclou/mailcheap1,128zhuyansen/new-term-radar: 1,063zhuyansen/new-term-ra…1,063feder-cr/git-ai: 1,044feder-cr/git-ai1,044
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onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent2832
deeplethe/solid-glass1347
rociiu/talorys1242
marclou/mailcheap1128
zhuyansen/new-term-radar1063
feder-cr/git-ai1044

OpenMOSS/MOSS-Image

OpenMOSS releases MOSS-Image, a 5B-parameter base DiT model that generates high-quality text and layouts while supporting efficient fine-tuning. ·

A new repository written in Python with 188 stars in its first week.

GitHub18h ago▲139 to 188 across 5 pollsgithub.com

anujasid/mcp-for-blender-pro

Anujasid releases an AI assistant and MCP server for Blender that supports visual chat, scene tools, and multi-agent workflows. It integrates with OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, and OpenCode. ·

GitHub20h ago▲140 to 160 across 2 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 Releases22h ago▲0 to 12 across 11 pollsgithub.com

anujasid/mcp-for-blender-pro

Anujasid releases an AI assistant and MCP server for Blender that supports visual chat, scene tools, and multi-agent workflows. It integrates with OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, and OpenCode. ·

GitHub20h ago▲140 to 160 across 2 pollsgithub.com

OpenMOSS/MOSS-Image

OpenMOSS releases MOSS-Image, a 5B-parameter base DiT model that generates high-quality text and layouts while supporting efficient fine-tuning. ·

GitHub18h ago▲139 to 188 across 5 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 Releases22h ago▲0 to 12 across 11 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 Releases26h ago▲0 to 17 across 13 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: 33Fri 1633
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Sat 103
Sun 117
Mon 1241
Tue 1329
Wed 1434
Thu 1541
Fri 1633

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 $4.62Min $2.95Max $5.00

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

Output price, $ per million tokens (newest models)

beam-1.0-501b-a23b: 1beam-1.0-501b-a23b1moondream3-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-vl0.50median, all paid models: 2median, all paid mode…2
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beam-1.0-501b-a23b1
moondream3-preview2.5
moondream3.1-9b-a2b2.5
muse-spark-open4.25
nemotron-3.5-super-vl0.5
median, all paid models2

439 paid models listed; median of the 48 added in 30 days: $4.62. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.