The Pulse of AI

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

MiMo V2.5 — 10463NEW Are brain waves the next unlock for physical AI? DeepSeek V4 Flash — 6371NEW Energy Transmission and US Threats Against Chinese AI Hy3 ▼ 5704NEW NTT DATA Group cuts incident analysis to 30 minutes with Codex GLM 5.2 — 3288NEW Meta upgrades AI chatbot with new productivity features DeepSeek V4 Pro — 3172NEW Anthropic releases Opus 5, says it comes 'close' to Fable 5's capabilities Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) — 2374 MiMo V2.5 — 10463NEW Are brain waves the next unlock for physical AI? DeepSeek V4 Flash — 6371NEW Energy Transmission and US Threats Against Chinese AI Hy3 ▼ 5704NEW NTT DATA Group cuts incident analysis to 30 minutes with Codex GLM 5.2 — 3288NEW Meta upgrades AI chatbot with new productivity features DeepSeek V4 Pro — 3172NEW Anthropic releases Opus 5, says it comes 'close' to Fable 5's capabilities Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) — 2374

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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	MiMo-V2.5 Xiaomi	Open Source	10.46T	$0.11/$0.22	1.1M	—
2	DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek	Open Source	6.37T	$0.09/$0.18	1M	—
3	Hy3 tencent	Open Source	5.7T	$0.13/$0.53	262K	2
4	GLM 5.2 Z.ai	Open Source	3.29T	$0.76/$2.42	1M	—
5	DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek	Open Source	3.17T	$0.44/$0.87	1M	—
6	Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) Nvidia	Open Source	2.37T	Free	1M	—
7	MiniMax M3 MiniMax	Open Source	2.05T	$0.24/$0.96	1M	—
8	Step 3.7 Flash stepfun	Open Source	1.92T	$0.2/$1.15	262K	—
9	Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic	Proprietary	1.44T	$5/$25	1M	—
10	Kimi K3 moonshotai	Open Source	1.23T	$3/$15	1M	—
11	Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic	Proprietary	1.04T	$2/$10	1M	—
12	Gemini 3 Flash Preview Google	Proprietary	975B	$0.5/$3	1M	—

● Live · OpenRouter usage, last 7 days · updated 2026-07-27 Most-used models → See all 100 models →

Trending on GitHub

Hot AI repos

What's gaining stars in the AI/ML ecosystem right now.

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Latest AI News

The freshness layer

Summarized, source-linked AI news as it breaks.

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TechCrunch 6 hours ago

Are brain waves the next unlock for physical AI?

Encord, a data annotation company, is partnering with German neuroscience startup Zander Labs to measure brain waves from human "pilots" who wear sensor-equippe…

The Verge 2 sources 2 days ago

Anthropic releases Opus 5, says it comes 'close' to Fable 5's capabilities

Anthropic on Thursday released its newest model, Claude Opus 5, which the company said "comes close to the capabilities of Claude Fable 5 in many domains" and i…

TechCrunch 1 day ago

Librarians host viral workshops teaching people to disable AI features on popular platforms

Librarians across the country are hosting "Avoiding AI" workshops that teach attendees how to disable artificial intelligence features on popular tech platforms…

Simon Willison 2 days ago

Boris Cherny: Opus 5 Is Anthropic's Least Prompt-Injectable Model Yet

Boris Cherny states that Opus 5 is Anthropic's least prompt-injectable model yet. This detail is somewhat buried in the model's system card, appearing on page 7…

TechCrunch 2 days ago

OpenAI releases Micro keypad for coders, leaves others puzzled

OpenAI has released Micro, a small hardware keypad with six "agent" keys and six command keys designed to work with ChatGPT and its coding tool Codex. The devic…

Ars Technica 2 days ago

Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM prompt instruction in floor speech

Bill Oliver, a Progressive Conservative Party member of the legislative assembly of New Brunswick, inadvertently embarrassed himself by reading an apparent LLM …

The Verge 2 days ago

Midjourney acquires astrology app Co-Star

Midjourney has acquired the personalized astrology app Co-Star, with the deal reportedly closing in spring 2026. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Co…

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AI Funding

Latest rounds & deals

Funding signals from TechCrunch & SEC filings. Every figure links to its source.

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Imagi $4.5 million

Brighteye Ventures, Day One Capital, and artist Will.i.am

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Touring Capital, Principal VC, OpenAI, Anthropic

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Hot Research

Trending AI papers

Top-voted on Hugging Face + the newest on arXiv (cs.AI).

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HF Daily Papers 3 2026-07-15

Multi-Head Latent Control: A Unified Interface for LLM Agent Decision Making

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IDEAgent: Agentic Quality-Diversity Search for Research Idea Generation

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VisCo: Leveraging Large Language Models as Intrinsic Encoders for Visual Token Compression

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LAMAR: An Open Language-Aware Multilingual Alignment Reranker

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Community Buzz

What HN is talking about

Top AI stories on Hacker News, ranked by points + discussion.

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He Was Right About AI. What About the Fate of Mankind?

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From A.I. To the Deep State, Michel Foucault Foresaw It All

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"Zuzai" is to AI what vegan is to animal products

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