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What is climbing fastest across every source

Claude9.4xAnthropic6.8xLLMs6.2xChatGPT7.4xWikipedia9.9xOpenAI5.3xScientific Discovery6.7xDCD Studio5.7xOracle6.4xAnthropic S-16.0x

LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B

A text generation model from LiquidAI with 155 likes and 6,311 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face2h ago▲126 to 155 across 5 pollshuggingface.co

langchain-anthropic==1.7.7

New release langchain-anthropic==1.7.7 of langchain-ai/langchain on GitHub.

GitHub Releases12m ago▲github.com

LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B

A text generation model from LiquidAI with 155 likes and 6,311 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face2h ago▲126 to 155 across 5 pollshuggingface.co

openai/codex 0.165.0

New release rust-v0.165.0 of openai/codex on GitHub.

GitHub Releases4h ago▲0 to 1 across 2 pollsgithub.com

anhao/ai-pose-gallery-zh

A new repository written in HTML with 337 stars in its first week.

GitHub12h ago▲168 to 337 across 7 pollsgithub.com

Trending topics today: heat

Claude: 4.01Claude4.01Anthropic: 3.13Anthropic3.13LLMs: 1.44LLMs1.44ChatGPT: 1.22ChatGPT1.22Wikipedia: 1.18Wikipedia1.18OpenAI: 0.81OpenAI0.81
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Claude4.01
Anthropic3.13
LLMs1.44
ChatGPT1.22
Wikipedia1.18
OpenAI0.81

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: 9,574Lightricks/LTX-2.59,574deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017: 3,374deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-…3,374black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein-comfy: 1,853black-forest-labs/flu…1,853RecursiveSI/flint: 970RecursiveSI/flint970XHToken/Spark-X2.6-4B: 782XHToken/Spark-X2.6-4B782Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.3-33B: 666Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.3-…666
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Lightricks/LTX-2.59574
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-10173374
black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein-comfy1853
RecursiveSI/flint970
XHToken/Spark-X2.6-4B782
Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.3-33B666

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/

baidu/Unlimited-OCR-2

A image text to text model from baidu with 228 likes and 513 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face13h ago▲141 to 228 across 26 pollshuggingface.co

GPT-6.1 Terra

623 points and 417 comments on Hacker News, linking openai.com.

Hacker News+ OpenAI2d ago▲16 to 1040 across 93 pollsdiscussopenai.com

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

rddmwmddr/android-ad-cleaner: 3,216rddmwmddr/android-ad-…3,216wesbos/3d-model-anything: 2,213wesbos/3d-model-anyth…2,213t3dotgg/tstack: 1,993t3dotgg/tstack1,993morganlinton/BeautifulRust: 1,307morganlinton/Beautifu…1,307andyhuo520/digital-human-koubo: 1,066andyhuo520/digital-hu…1,066DenisSergeevitch/ex-ussr-kinship-research: 1,051DenisSergeevitch/ex-u…1,051
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rddmwmddr/android-ad-cleaner3216
wesbos/3d-model-anything2213
t3dotgg/tstack1993
morganlinton/BeautifulRust1307
andyhuo520/digital-human-koubo1066
DenisSergeevitch/ex-ussr-kinship-research1051

openai/codex 0.165.0

New release rust-v0.165.0 of openai/codex on GitHub.

GitHub Releases4h ago▲0 to 1 across 2 pollsgithub.com

anhao/ai-pose-gallery-zh

A new repository written in HTML with 337 stars in its first week.

GitHub12h ago▲168 to 337 across 7 pollsgithub.com

patch-gg/anymove

A new repository written in Python with 179 stars in its first week.

GitHub16h ago▲153 to 179 across 5 pollsgithub.com

ollama/ollama v0.40.12

New release v0.40.12 of ollama/ollama on GitHub.

GitHub Releases24h ago▲16 to 19 across 2 pollsgithub.com

anhao/ai-pose-gallery-zh

A new repository written in HTML with 337 stars in its first week.

GitHub12h ago▲168 to 337 across 7 pollsgithub.com

patch-gg/anymove

A new repository written in Python with 179 stars in its first week.

GitHub16h ago▲153 to 179 across 5 pollsgithub.com

ollama/ollama v0.40.12

New release v0.40.12 of ollama/ollama on GitHub.

GitHub Releases24h ago▲16 to 19 across 2 pollsgithub.com

blakeandersonw/ai-app-playbook

A new repository written in TypeScript with 415 stars in its first week.

GitHub32h ago▲134 to 415 across 29 pollsgithub.com

Infrastructure

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Data centers, power, chips and what tokens cost

Data-center and energy stories per day

Thu 22: 34Thu 2234Fri 23: 39Fri 2339Sat 24: 3Sat 243Sun 25: 1Sun 251Mon 26: 38Mon 2638Tue 27: 34Tue 2734Wed 28: 0Wed 280
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Thu 2234
Fri 2339
Sat 243
Sun 251
Mon 2638
Tue 2734
Wed 280

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)

gpt-6.1-terra-pro: 5gpt-6.1-terra-pro5gpt-6.1-terra-pro:batch: 2.50gpt-6.1-terra-pro:bat…2.50gpt-6.1-terra: 5gpt-6.1-terra5gpt-6.1-terra:batch: 2.50gpt-6.1-terra:batch2.50kimi-k3.1-pro: 10kimi-k3.1-pro10median, all paid models: 2median, all paid mode…2
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gpt-6.1-terra-pro5
gpt-6.1-terra-pro:batch2.5
gpt-6.1-terra5
gpt-6.1-terra:batch2.5
kimi-k3.1-pro10
median, all paid models2

436 paid models listed; median of the 34 added in 30 days: $3.20. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.