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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 Chinese · Kimi · K3.1 The new open-weight Kimi model ranked fourth on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index and… 16of 49 sources 23mentions in 48h 02 OpenAI cuts internet access for model training OpenAI is removing live internet access from frontier-model training after safety concerns… 8of 49 sources 19mentions in 48h 03 Treasury expands outbound investment curbs The Treasury is moving to restrict AI, chip and biotechnology transactions involving China and… 4of 49 sources 4mentions in 48h
Trending on GitHub
Hot AI repos
What's gaining stars in the AI/ML ecosystem right now. This week's acceleration report → · Rankings by topic →
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akitaonrails/ai-memory Trusted
Solution for long term memory for agent coding CLIs and to facilitate handoff between different agent vendors
Rust 13.4k +3541 stars this week
makecindy/cindy Trusted
Consider it done. The open-source AI agent that works out of the box · 想到，就能做到。开源、开箱即用的 AI Agent。
TypeScript 4.4k +677 stars today
anthropics/sandbox-runtime Trusted
A lightweight sandboxing tool for enforcing filesystem and network restrictions on arbitrary processes at the OS level, without requiring a container.
TypeScript 6.6k +650 stars today
experientiallabs/experiential Trusted
Experiential is the open source, zero markup gateway for BYOK, self-hosted and 1000+ marketplace models. It learns from your traffic to cut costs, recommend better models, and train a specialized model you own.
Python 12.4k +1224 stars today
aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws Verified
Official, AWS-supported MCP servers, skills, and plugins to help AI agents build on AWS
Python 3.3k +304 stars today
stablyai/orca Trusted
Orca is the place for working with a fleet of agents (e.g. Grok Bot, Claude Code). Run any coding agent with your own subscription. Available on desktop, mobile and remote runtime.
TypeScript 105.3k +9828 stars this week
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
49.55T
$0.02/$1 1M —
2
MiniMax M3.1 Flash
MiniMax 		Open Source
14.13T
$0.09/$0.5 1M —
3
GLM 5.3 Flash (batch)
Z.ai 		Open Source
12.55T
$0.05/$0.18 1M —
4
Hy4 preview
tencent 		Open Source
8.84T
$0.83/$2.5 1M —
5
Claude Opus 5.5 (batch)
Anthropic 		Proprietary
8.26T
$2/$10 1M —
6
GPT-6 Luna
OpenAI 		Proprietary
7.67T
$0.1/$0.5 1.1M —
7
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
DeepSeek 		Open Source
6.88T
$0.04/$0.17 1M —
8
MiMo-V2.6-Flash
Xiaomi 		Open Source
6.77T
$0.09/$0.18 1.1M —
9
Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)
Nvidia 		Open Source
6.02T
Free 1M —
10
GLM 5.3
Z.ai 		Open Source
5T
$0.07/$4.38 1M —
11
Hy3
tencent 		Open Source
3.01T
$0.13/$0.53 262K —
12
Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor
Meta 		Open Source
2.89T
$0.1/$0.2 1M —
● Live · OpenRouter usage, last 7 days · updated 2026-10-25 Most-used models → See all 100 models →
AI Funding
Latest rounds & deals
Funding signals from TechCrunch & SEC filings. Every figure links to its source.
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Warhound $200M
TechCrunch
Legora $550 million
Series E TechCrunch
OpenAI $30B
TechCrunch
Nirva $33M
TechCrunch
DeepSeek $15 billion
TechCrunch
Slingshot Insurance $27 million
seed
Rally Ventures, Skyward Group
Crunchbase News
Inspired Capital $450M
fourth fund TechCrunch
Tenstorrent $1.5 billion
TechCrunch
Hot Research
Trending AI papers
Top-voted on Hugging Face + the newest on arXiv (cs.AI).
HF papers →
HF Daily Papers 8 2026-10-21
TARSphere: A Robot-Oriented Full-Stack Framework for Long-Horizon Embodied Agents in Evolving Physical and Social Environments
HF Daily Papers 9 2026-10-15
The LLM-Attacker: A Unified Red-Team Framework for Privacy Evaluation of Split and Distributed LLM Systems
HF Daily Papers 20 2026-10-16
EvalResearchBench: Can AI Agents Build Their Own Feedback for Recursive Self-Improvement?
HF Daily Papers 9 2026-10-19
Diffusion Language Models Change Speed Across Tasks and Languages
HF Daily Papers 23 2026-10-22
Different Tasks, Different Timesteps: Temporal Task-Aware Quantization for Diffusion Language Models
HF Daily Papers 7 2026-10-17
Bridging Exploration and Persona: Information-Directed Dueling for Test-Time Agent Personalization
HF Daily Papers 8 2026-10-17
IF-MAP: Influence-Function-Inspired Agent Prioritization in Multi-Agent Systems
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