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What is climbing fastest across every source

Gemini 4 Carbon7.6xGoogle8.1xLLMs7.2xNvidia9.9xClaude Code9.9xClaude7.3xArtificial 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 Releases12h 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 Face12h ago▲190 to 261 across 25 pollshuggingface.co

Gemini 4 Carbon

791 points and 651 comments on Hacker News, linking blog.google.

Hacker News8h ago▲80 to 1442 across 40 pollsdiscussblog.google

ggml-org/llama.cpp v0.8.0

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

GitHub Releases12h ago▲8 to 28 across 6 pollsgithub.com

Trending topics today: heat

Gemini 4 Carbon: 2.49Gemini 4 Carbon2.49Google: 2.04Google2.04LLMs: 1.74LLMs1.74Nvidia: 1.42Nvidia1.42Claude Code: 1.41Claude Code1.41Claude: 1.35Claude1.35
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Gemini 4 Carbon2.49
Google2.04
LLMs1.74
Nvidia1.42
Claude Code1.41
Claude1.35

Heat = summed hotness of today's stories naming the topic.

Models

5 stories

Releases, papers, trending weights and new listings

Top 6 trending on Hugging Face: likes

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017: 3,544deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-…3,544RecursiveSI/flint: 1,154RecursiveSI/flint1,154XHToken/Spark-X2.6-4B: 856XHToken/Spark-X2.6-4B856Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.3-33B: 721Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.3-…721MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3.1-Flash ▲2: 451MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-… ▲2451ISTA-DASLab/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-GSQ-RCO-GGUF ▲2: 435ISTA-DASLab/DeepSe… ▲2435
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deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-10173544
RecursiveSI/flint1154
XHToken/Spark-X2.6-4B856
Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.3-33B721
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3.1-Flash ▲2451
ISTA-DASLab/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-GSQ-RCO-GGUF ▲2435

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

791 points and 651 comments on Hacker News, linking blog.google.

Hacker News8h ago▲80 to 1442 across 40 pollsdiscussblog.google

PyTorch 2.15.0 Release

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

GitHub Releases8h 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 Face12h ago▲190 to 261 across 25 pollshuggingface.co

LiquidAI/LFM3-VL-2B

A image text to text model from LiquidAI with 135 likes and 1,596 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face8h ago▲120 to 135 across 16 pollshuggingface.co

LiquidAI/LFM3-Omni-2B

A any to any model from LiquidAI with 143 likes and 714 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face9h ago▲121 to 143 across 19 pollshuggingface.co

Gemini 4 Carbon

791 points and 651 comments on Hacker News, linking blog.google.

Hacker News8h ago▲80 to 1442 across 40 pollsdiscussblog.google

X voices

5 stories

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: 4,286rddmwmddr/android-ad-…4,286t3dotgg/tstack: 2,262t3dotgg/tstack2,262anhao/ai-pose-gallery-zh: 1,891anhao/ai-pose-gallery…1,891morganlinton/BeautifulRust: 1,366morganlinton/Beautifu…1,366andyhuo520/digital-human-koubo: 1,306andyhuo520/digital-hu…1,306DenisSergeevitch/ex-ussr-kinship-research: 1,182DenisSergeevitch/ex-u…1,182
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rddmwmddr/android-ad-cleaner4286
t3dotgg/tstack2262
anhao/ai-pose-gallery-zh1891
morganlinton/BeautifulRust1366
andyhuo520/digital-human-koubo1306
DenisSergeevitch/ex-ussr-kinship-research1182

ggml-org/llama.cpp v0.8.0

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

GitHub Releases12h ago▲8 to 28 across 6 pollsgithub.com

PyTorch 2.15.0 Release

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

GitHub Releases8h ago▲0 to 1 across 4 pollsgithub.com

jacke-pp/open-yoki

A new repository written in JavaScript with 213 stars in its first week.

GitHub16h ago▲181 to 213 across 8 pollsgithub.com

ggml-org/llama.cpp v0.8.0

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

GitHub Releases12h ago▲8 to 28 across 6 pollsgithub.com

jacke-pp/open-yoki

A new repository written in JavaScript with 213 stars in its first week.

GitHub16h ago▲181 to 213 across 8 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.