Daily AI Pulse

July 28, 2026. Archived briefing: what moved across AI news, the model leaderboard, GitHub repos, and funding on this day.

2 stories 7 movers 6 rising repos 3 funding rounds generated 22:17 UTC
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Samsung’s chip workers are jumping ship to rival SK Hynix
Samsung chip workers are leaving for rival SK Hynix, driven by a massive bonus gap between the two companies. SK Hynix is paying its employees approximately $476,000 each—funded by record profits from
MIT Tech Review · Industry
Anthropic's Amodei clarifies: no ban on open-weight AI, but China remains key threat
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has clarified that his company has never advocated for banning open-weight AI models, responding to an open letter from Nvidia, Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, and Mistral ur
TechCrunch · Industry
Leaderboard MoversFull rankings →
Ling-3.0-flash (free)▲ +12
#22 · inclusionai417B
Claude Opus 5 (batch)▲ +12
#48 · Anthropic160B
GPT-5.5 (batch)▼ -7
#31 · OpenAI322B
Laguna M.1▼ -7
#39 · poolside231B
GPT-5.2 (batch)▼ -7
#55 · OpenAI130B
Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)▲ +5
#37 · Google241B
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)NEW
#45 · Google190B
Movement compares stored daily leaderboard snapshots, 2026-07-27 vs 2026-07-28, top 60 by OpenRouter token volume.
Rising ReposAll repos →
permissionlesstech/bitchat
32,220 stars
+1,968
bojieli/ai-agent-book
《深入理解 AI Agent：设计原理与工程实践》（李博杰 著）开源主仓库：全书正文、编译版 PDF 与按章配套代码
Python · 22,606 stars
+1,846
mattpocock/skills
Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.
Shell · 191,314 stars
+1,771
stablyai/orca
30,792 stars
+1,122
diegosouzapw/OmniRoute
Never stop coding. Free MIT AI gateway: one endpoint, 290+ providers (90+ free), 500+ models — Kimi, Claude, GPT, OpenAI, Gemini, GLM, DeepSeek, MiniMax. Works
TypeScript · 32,121 stars
+1,103
alibaba/open-code-review
14,766 stars
+994
Star growth measured between stored snapshots, 2026-07-27 vs 2026-07-28.
FundingAll deals →
Fish Audio seed
TechCrunch · 2026-07-28 · view source →
$52M
Throne Science Series A
Investors: Will Ventures, Emerson Collective, Workshop, LEAD VC, Salt VC, Accomplice, Moxxie Ventures
Crunchbase News · 2026-07-28 · view source →
$10 million
Enigma seed
Investors: Index Ventures, Ribbit Capital, Sarah Guo's Conviction Partners
TechCrunch · 2026-07-27 · view source →
$71M
Amounts are shown only when verified verbatim in the linked source, never estimated.
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