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What is climbing fastest across every source

Gemini 4 Carbon7.7xGoogle8.1xLLMs7.2xNvidia9.9xClaude7.5xClaude Code9.9xArtificial Analysis7.6xLiquidAI9.9xAnthropic4.7xGitHub Copilot6.5x

ggml-org/llama.cpp v0.8.0

New release v0.8.0 of ggml-org/llama.cpp on GitHub.

GitHub Releases11h ago▲8 to 28 across 6 pollsgithub.com

openbmb/MiniCPM-OCR-1.0

A image text to text model from openbmb with 261 likes and 791 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face11h ago▲190 to 261 across 23 pollshuggingface.co

Gemini 4 Carbon

759 points and 624 comments on Hacker News, linking blog.google.

Hacker News7h ago▲80 to 1383 across 35 pollsdiscussblog.google

ggml-org/llama.cpp v0.8.0

New release v0.8.0 of ggml-org/llama.cpp on GitHub.

GitHub Releases11h ago▲8 to 28 across 6 pollsgithub.com

Trending topics today: heat

Gemini 4 Carbon: 2.61Gemini 4 Carbon2.61Google: 2.12Google2.12LLMs: 1.81LLMs1.81Nvidia: 1.48Nvidia1.48Claude: 1.45Claude1.45Claude Code: 1.45Claude Code1.45
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Gemini 4 Carbon2.61
Google2.12
LLMs1.81
Nvidia1.48
Claude1.45
Claude Code1.45

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

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017: 3,540deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-…3,540RecursiveSI/flint: 1,153RecursiveSI/flint1,153XHToken/Spark-X2.6-4B: 853XHToken/Spark-X2.6-4B853Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.3-33B: 720Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.3-…720MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3.1-Flash ▲2: 450MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-… ▲2450ISTA-DASLab/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-GSQ-RCO-GGUF ▲2: 431ISTA-DASLab/DeepSe… ▲2431
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deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-10173540
RecursiveSI/flint1153
XHToken/Spark-X2.6-4B853
Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.3-33B720
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3.1-Flash ▲2450
ISTA-DASLab/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-GSQ-RCO-GGUF ▲2431

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/

Gemini 4 Carbon

759 points and 624 comments on Hacker News, linking blog.google.

Hacker News7h ago▲80 to 1383 across 35 pollsdiscussblog.google

PyTorch 2.15.0 Release

New release v2.15.0 of pytorch/pytorch on GitHub.

GitHub Releases7h ago▲0 to 1 across 4 pollsgithub.com

openbmb/MiniCPM-OCR-1.0

A image text to text model from openbmb with 261 likes and 791 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face11h ago▲190 to 261 across 23 pollshuggingface.co

LiquidAI/LFM3-Omni-2B

A any to any model from LiquidAI with 140 likes and 714 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face8h ago▲121 to 140 across 17 pollshuggingface.co

LiquidAI/LFM3-VL-2B

A image text to text model from LiquidAI with 133 likes and 1,596 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face7h ago▲120 to 133 across 14 pollshuggingface.co

Gemini 4 Carbon

759 points and 624 comments on Hacker News, linking blog.google.

Hacker News7h ago▲80 to 1383 across 35 pollsdiscussblog.google

X voices

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

GitHub

5 stories

New repos, releases and changelog

New AI repos this week: stars

rddmwmddr/android-ad-cleaner: 4,272rddmwmddr/android-ad-…4,272t3dotgg/tstack: 2,254t3dotgg/tstack2,254anhao/ai-pose-gallery-zh: 1,854anhao/ai-pose-gallery…1,854morganlinton/BeautifulRust: 1,365morganlinton/Beautifu…1,365andyhuo520/digital-human-koubo: 1,302andyhuo520/digital-hu…1,302DenisSergeevitch/ex-ussr-kinship-research: 1,179DenisSergeevitch/ex-u…1,179
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rddmwmddr/android-ad-cleaner4272
t3dotgg/tstack2254
anhao/ai-pose-gallery-zh1854
morganlinton/BeautifulRust1365
andyhuo520/digital-human-koubo1302
DenisSergeevitch/ex-ussr-kinship-research1179

ggml-org/llama.cpp v0.8.0

New release v0.8.0 of ggml-org/llama.cpp on GitHub.

GitHub Releases11h ago▲8 to 28 across 6 pollsgithub.com

PyTorch 2.15.0 Release

New release v2.15.0 of pytorch/pytorch on GitHub.

GitHub Releases7h ago▲0 to 1 across 4 pollsgithub.com

jacke-pp/open-yoki

A new repository written in JavaScript with 202 stars in its first week.

GitHub15h ago▲181 to 202 across 7 pollsgithub.com

ggml-org/llama.cpp v0.8.0

New release v0.8.0 of ggml-org/llama.cpp on GitHub.

GitHub Releases11h ago▲8 to 28 across 6 pollsgithub.com

Infrastructure

5 stories

Data centers, power, chips and what tokens cost

Data-center and energy stories per day

Fri 23: 39Fri 2339Sat 24: 3Sat 243Sun 25: 1Sun 251Mon 26: 39Mon 2639Tue 27: 34Tue 2734Wed 28: 31Wed 2831Thu 29: 0Thu 290
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Fri 2339
Sat 243
Sun 251
Mon 2639
Tue 2734
Wed 2831
Thu 290

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 $3.00Min $3.00Max $4.18

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

Output price, $ per million tokens (newest models)

particle-1: 1particle-11gpt-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:batch2.50median, all paid models: 2median, all paid mode…2
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particle-11
gpt-6.1-terra-pro5
gpt-6.1-terra-pro:batch2.5
gpt-6.1-terra5
gpt-6.1-terra:batch2.5
median, all paid models2

429 paid models listed; median of the 33 added in 30 days: $3.00. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.