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What is climbing fastest across every source

Anthropic8.9xClaude Code6.6xChinese6.5xAnthropic IPO3.8xGoogle3.6xWyoming3.6xInkling 2 Small2.7xLFM3-1.7B2.2xLiquidAI2.2xOpenRouter2.2x

NousResearch/Arete-27B

NousResearch releases Arete-27B, a text generation model with 27 billion parameters available on Hugging Face. ·

Hugging Face15h ago▲121 to 201 across 30 pollshuggingface.co

NousResearch/Arete-27B

NousResearch releases Arete-27B, a text generation model with 27 billion parameters available on Hugging Face. ·

Hugging Face15h ago▲121 to 201 across 30 pollshuggingface.co

shanselman/sandbox-mcp

Shanselman releases sandbox-mcp, an MCP server and CLI that automate Windows Sandbox for testing applications on fresh, throwaway Windows machines. ·

GitHub29h ago▲157 to 253 across 10 pollsgithub.com

anthropics/claude-code v2.1.319

Anthropic releases Claude Code version 2.1.319, adding MCP task support and a latency optimization flag. ·

GitHub Releases31h ago▲21 to 26 across 15 pollsgithub.com

moonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Pro

Moonshotai releases Kimi-K3.1-Pro, an image-text-to-text transformer model featuring 2.8 trillion parameters available on Hugging Face. ·

Hugging Face+ Hacker News3d ago▲182 to 1630 across 159 pollshuggingface.co

unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF

Unsloth releases the Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF machine learning model, which contains 27 billion parameters and is available on Hugging Face. ·

Hugging Face18h ago▲huggingface.co

anthropics/claude-code v2.1.319

Anthropic releases Claude Code version 2.1.319, adding MCP task support and a latency optimization flag. ·

GitHub Releases31h ago▲21 to 26 across 15 pollsgithub.com

unslothai/unsloth Large Performance Fixes

Unsloth releases version 3.1, featuring faster typing, search, and image generation, alongside separate browsers for each chat and optimized memory offloading. ·

GitHub Releases33h ago▲2 to 20 across 17 pollsgithub.com

Trending topics today: heat

Anthropic: 1.12Anthropic1.12Claude Code: 0.86Claude Code0.86Chinese: 0.65Chinese0.65Anthropic IPO: 0.38Anthropic IPO0.38Google: 0.36Google0.36Wyoming: 0.36Wyoming0.36
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Anthropic1.12
Claude Code0.86
Chinese0.65
Anthropic IPO0.38
Google0.36
Wyoming0.36

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: 10,987Lightricks/LTX-2.5 ▼110,987moonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Pro ▼1: 1,630moonshotai/Kimi-K3… ▼11,630speridlabs/idol ▲1: 1,108speridlabs/idol ▲11,108ccore/Qwen3.5-4B-3D-Coder: 871ccore/Qwen3.5-4B-3D-C…871xtools-at/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Qwen3.5-9B-UNCENSORED-heretic new: 473xtools-at/DeepSee… new473ricursiveAI/Ripple-65B-Preview ▲1: 368ricursiveAI/Ripple… ▲1368
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Lightricks/LTX-2.5 ▼110987
moonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Pro ▼11630
speridlabs/idol ▲11108
ccore/Qwen3.5-4B-3D-Coder871
xtools-at/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Qwen3.5-9B-UNCENSORED-heretic new473
ricursiveAI/Ripple-65B-Preview ▲1368

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/

autotrust/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-E384-FP4-V2

Autotrust releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-E384-FP4-V2, an image-text-to-text model with 80 billion parameters available on Hugging Face. ·

Hugging Face18h ago▲2122 to 2172 across 9 pollshuggingface.co

unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF

Unsloth releases the Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF machine learning model, which contains 27 billion parameters and is available on Hugging Face. ·

Hugging Face18h ago▲huggingface.co

Viggle/Viggle-Remake

Viggle-Remake is a video-to-video model with 20 billion parameters available on Hugging Face. ·

Hugging Face38h ago▲119 to 162 across 77 pollshuggingface.co

moonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Pro

Moonshotai releases Kimi-K3.1-Pro, an image-text-to-text transformer model featuring 2.8 trillion parameters available on Hugging Face. ·

A image text to text model from moonshotai with 1,630 likes and 22.6k downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face+ Hacker News3d ago▲182 to 1630 across 159 pollshuggingface.co

unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF

Unsloth releases the Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF machine learning model, which contains 27 billion parameters and is available on Hugging Face. ·

Hugging Face18h ago▲huggingface.co

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash offers native 15-second video generation and editing with stronger consistency and 30% lower pricing. ·

Hacker News+ Google AI2d ago▲13 to 608 across 138 pollsdiscussblog.google

X voices

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

@OpenAI

22 points and 5 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.

X, via Hacker News2d ago▲9 to 27 across 54 pollsView on X

GitHub

5 stories

New repos, releases and changelog

New AI repos this week: stars

KKKKhazix/agent-autoloop: 3,950KKKKhazix/agent-autol…3,950worldonlyu/Google_AI_Pro_2Year_ZeroCost_Auto: 3,050worldonlyu/Google_AI_…3,050caru-ini/stack-diagram: 2,066caru-ini/stack-diagram2,066wquguru/cicada: 1,618wquguru/cicada1,618Sandflow-ai/sand3d: 1,038Sandflow-ai/sand3d1,038voyager-so/vork: 858voyager-so/vork858
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KKKKhazix/agent-autoloop3950
worldonlyu/Google_AI_Pro_2Year_ZeroCost_Auto3050
caru-ini/stack-diagram2066
wquguru/cicada1618
Sandflow-ai/sand3d1038
voyager-so/vork858

shanselman/sandbox-mcp

Shanselman releases sandbox-mcp, an MCP server and CLI that automate Windows Sandbox for testing applications on fresh, throwaway Windows machines. ·

GitHub29h ago▲157 to 253 across 10 pollsgithub.com

anthropics/claude-code v2.1.319

Anthropic releases Claude Code version 2.1.319, adding MCP task support and a latency optimization flag. ·

GitHub Releases31h ago▲21 to 26 across 15 pollsgithub.com

unslothai/unsloth Large Performance Fixes

Unsloth releases version 3.1, featuring faster typing, search, and image generation, alongside separate browsers for each chat and optimized memory offloading. ·

GitHub Releases33h ago▲2 to 20 across 17 pollsgithub.com

anthropics/claude-code v2.1.319

Anthropic releases Claude Code version 2.1.319, adding MCP task support and a latency optimization flag. ·

New release v2.1.319 of anthropics/claude-code on GitHub.

GitHub Releases31h ago▲21 to 26 across 15 pollsgithub.com

unslothai/unsloth Large Performance Fixes

Unsloth releases version 3.1, featuring faster typing, search, and image generation, alongside separate browsers for each chat and optimized memory offloading. ·

GitHub Releases33h ago▲2 to 20 across 17 pollsgithub.com

Infrastructure

5 stories

Data centers, power, chips and what tokens cost

Data-center and energy stories per day

Mon 02: 34Mon 0234Tue 03: 38Tue 0338Wed 04: 40Wed 0440Thu 05: 36Thu 0536Fri 06: 25Fri 0625Sat 07: 1Sat 071Sun 08: 0Sun 080
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Mon 0234
Tue 0338
Wed 0440
Thu 0536
Fri 0625
Sat 071
Sun 080

Stories from DCD, Data Center Knowledge, EIA and Hacker News, by publication day.

Output price, $ per million tokens (newest models)

lfm-3-1.7b: 0.20lfm-3-1.7b0.20gemini-omni-1.2-flash: 9gemini-omni-1.2-flash9gemini-omni-1.1-flash: 9gemini-omni-1.1-flash9ripple-65b-preview: 0.60ripple-65b-preview0.60hy4: 1.25hy41.25median, all paid models: 2median, all paid mode…2
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lfm-3-1.7b0.2
gemini-omni-1.2-flash9
gemini-omni-1.1-flash9
ripple-65b-preview0.6
hy41.2505
median, all paid models2

434 paid models listed; median of the 29 added in 30 days: $2.50. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.