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July 19, 2026. Today's briefing: what moved across AI news, the model leaderboard, GitHub repos, and funding, assembled from live tracked data.

1 stories 7 movers 6 rising repos generated 14:24 UTC
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Top StoriesAll news →
Kimi: Threat or menace?
Chinese AI company MoonShot has released Kimi K3, an open source model that demonstrates frontier-level performance, outperforming most tested models but still trailing top proprietary models like Cla
TechCrunch · Models
Leaderboard MoversFull rankings →
GPT-5.2▲ +6
#52 · OpenAI99B
GLM 5▼ -4
#32 · Z.ai269B
GLM 5.1▼ -4
#47 · Z.ai128B
Gemini 3.5 Flash▲ +3
#26 · Google347B
Kimi K2.6▼ -3
#33 · moonshotai266B
Claude Sonnet 5▲ +2
#10 · Anthropic1.03T
Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507NEW
#60 · Qwen74B
Movement compares stored daily leaderboard snapshots, 2026-07-18 vs 2026-07-19, top 60 by OpenRouter token volume.
Rising ReposAll repos →
diegosouzapw/OmniRoute
Never stop coding. Free AI gateway: one endpoint, 231+ providers (50+ free), connect Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline & Copilot to FREE Claude/GPT/Gemini.
TypeScript · 19,605 stars
+1,227
codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x
Master programming by recreating your favorite technologies from scratch.
Markdown · 528,240 stars
+923
Nutlope/hallmark
Anti-AI-slop design skill for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.
CSS · 12,834 stars
+844
Graphify-Labs/graphify
AI coding assistant skill (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and more). Turn any folder of code, SQL schemas, R scripts, shell scripts, docs, pa
Python · 90,931 stars
+704
stablyai/orca
21,787 stars
+650
OpenCut-app/OpenCut
The open-source CapCut alternative
TypeScript · 75,413 stars
+578
Star growth measured between stored snapshots, 2026-07-18 vs 2026-07-19.
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