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What is climbing fastest across every source

LLMs7.4xOpenAI5.6xAnthropic5.7xrouterhubSI4.5xClaude2.4xClaude Code1.3x

Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.3-33B

A text generation model from Nanbeige with 370 likes and 0 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face11h ago▲127 to 370 across 22 pollshuggingface.co

Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.3-33B

A text generation model from Nanbeige with 370 likes and 0 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face11h ago▲127 to 370 across 22 pollshuggingface.co

inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-tts-0.5B

A text to speech model from inclusionAI with 133 likes and 3,172 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face6h ago▲127 to 133 across 7 pollshuggingface.co

hevnsnt/CVEngine

A new repository written in Python with 135 stars in its first week.

GitHub26h ago▲github.com

Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.3-33B

A text generation model from Nanbeige with 370 likes and 0 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face11h ago▲127 to 370 across 22 pollshuggingface.co

anthropics/claude-code v2.1.310

Anthropic releases Claude Code version 2.1.310, which adds the Monitor tool to Bedrock, Vertex, and Foundry, and fixes several bugs. ·

GitHub Releases2d ago▲6 to 36 across 25 pollsgithub.com

Trending topics today: heat

LLMs: 2.17LLMs2.17OpenAI: 1.39OpenAI1.39Anthropic: 0.83Anthropic0.83routerhubSI: 0.45routerhubSI0.45Claude: 0.24Claude0.24Claude Code: 0.13Claude Code0.13
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LLMs2.17
OpenAI1.39
Anthropic0.83
routerhubSI0.45
Claude0.24
Claude Code0.13

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 ▼1: 9,336Lightricks/LTX-2.5 ▼19,336deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017: 2,982deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-…2,982black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein-comfy: 1,604black-forest-labs/flu…1,604RecursiveSI/flint: 858RecursiveSI/flint858XHToken/Spark-X2.6-4B ▲1: 495XHToken/Spark-X2.6… ▲1495Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.3-33B new: 370Nanbeige/Nanbeige… new370
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Lightricks/LTX-2.5 ▼19336
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-10172982
black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein-comfy1604
RecursiveSI/flint858
XHToken/Spark-X2.6-4B ▲1495
Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.3-33B new370

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/

inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-tts-0.5B

A text to speech model from inclusionAI with 133 likes and 3,172 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face6h ago▲127 to 133 across 7 pollshuggingface.co

X voices

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

@frascafrasca

20 points and 37 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.

X, via Hacker News2d ago▲38 to 57 across 55 pollsView on X

GitHub

5 stories

New repos, releases and changelog

New AI repos this week: stars

wesbos/3d-model-anything: 1,916wesbos/3d-model-anyth…1,916rddmwmddr/android-ad-cleaner: 798rddmwmddr/android-ad-…798dominikmartn/harp: 616dominikmartn/harp616udhaykumarbala/cleanyourtv-app: 581udhaykumarbala/cleany…581DenisSergeevitch/ex-ussr-kinship-research: 536DenisSergeevitch/ex-u…536Alejandros17487/ai-jailbreaks: 483Alejandros17487/ai-ja…483
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wesbos/3d-model-anything1916
rddmwmddr/android-ad-cleaner798
dominikmartn/harp616
udhaykumarbala/cleanyourtv-app581
DenisSergeevitch/ex-ussr-kinship-research536
Alejandros17487/ai-jailbreaks483

hevnsnt/CVEngine

A new repository written in Python with 135 stars in its first week.

GitHub26h ago▲github.com

wangrongding/tv-fresh

A new repository written in Shell with 351 stars in its first week.

GitHub32h ago▲109 to 351 across 19 pollsgithub.com

wangrongding/tv-fresh

A new repository written in Shell with 351 stars in its first week.

GitHub32h ago▲109 to 351 across 19 pollsgithub.com

rddmwmddr/android-ad-cleaner

A new repository written in Python with 798 stars in its first week.

GitHub43h ago▲111 to 798 across 36 pollsgithub.com

Infrastructure

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Data centers, power, chips and what tokens cost

Data-center and energy stories per day

Tue 20: 31Tue 2031Wed 21: 29Wed 2129Thu 22: 34Thu 2234Fri 23: 39Fri 2339Sat 24: 3Sat 243Sun 25: 1Sun 251Mon 26: 0Mon 260
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Tue 2031
Wed 2129
Thu 2234
Fri 2339
Sat 243
Sun 251
Mon 260

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 $3.20Max $4.18

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

Output price, $ per million tokens (newest models)

kimi-k3.1-pro: 10kimi-k3.1-pro10minimax-m3.1-flash: 0.60minimax-m3.1-flash0.60deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017: 0.60deepseek-v4.1-flash-1…0.60glimpse: 3glimpse3beam-1.0-501b-a23b: 1beam-1.0-501b-a23b1median, all paid models: 2median, all paid mode…2
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kimi-k3.1-pro10
minimax-m3.1-flash0.6
deepseek-v4.1-flash-10170.6
glimpse3
beam-1.0-501b-a23b1
median, all paid models2

438 paid models listed; median of the 29 added in 30 days: $3.20. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.