The Pulse of AI

What's trending across AI models, repos, tools, and news, in one live board.

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Trend Signal
What the AI press is covering
Measured across 49 tracked sources over the last 7 days. We link to every outlet, we do not rewrite them.
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01 Anthropic blocks Claude from cloning existing games Anthropic updated Claude and Claude Code to refuse requests to recreate existing video games… 4of 49 sources 6mentions in 48h 02 Nace AI opens Drex Max decision model Apple's refusal to ship AI without clear value and other major developments drew broad… 5of 49 sources 5mentions in 48h 03 Google puts AI satellite in orbit Google's Project Suncatcher completed an orbital AI inference demonstration, signaling… 6of 49 sources 10mentions in 48h
Model Leaderboard
Top AI models, ranked
Ranked by real usage. Token volume routed per model on OpenRouter over the last 7 days, with pricing and context window.
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# Model Category Tokens/wk Pricing (in/out) Context Trend
1
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
DeepSeek
Open Source
62.5T
$0.04/$0.5 1M —
2
GLM 5.3 Flash
Z.ai
Open Source
15.74T
$0.03/$0.09 1M —
3
GPT-6 Luna
OpenAI
Proprietary
10.41T
$0.1/$0.5 1.1M —
4
Hy4 preview
tencent
Open Source
9.31T
$0.75/$2.25 1M —
5
Claude Opus 5.5 (batch)
Anthropic
Proprietary
6.91T
$2/$10 1M —
6
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
DeepSeek
Open Source
6.69T
$0.06/$0.3 1M —
7
Step 5 Preview
stepfun
Open Source
6.3T
$1/$2.7 1M —
8
MiniMax M3.1 Flash
MiniMax
Open Source
5.67T
$0.05/$0.2 1M —
9
GLM 5.3
Z.ai
Open Source
4.42T
$0.07/$1.4 1M —
10
GPT-5.6 Luna
OpenAI
Proprietary
4.02T
$0.2/$1.2 1.1M —
11
GPT-6.1 Sol (batch)
OpenAI
Proprietary
3.61T
$1/$5 1.1M —
12
Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)
Nvidia
Open Source
3.3T
Free 1M —
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