Daily AI Pulse

August 12, 2026. Archived briefing: what moved across AI news, the model leaderboard, GitHub repos, and funding on this day.

7 movers 6 rising repos 5 funding rounds generated 23:36 UTC
← 2026-08-11 | 2026-08-13 → |Today's Pulse →
Leaderboard MoversFull rankings →
Ling-3.0-flash▼ -6
#24 · inclusionai484B
Qwen3.6 35B A3B▲ +5
#52 · Qwen123B
Kimi K2.6▼ -4
#43 · moonshotai173B
GPT-5 Mini (batch)▼ -3
#45 · OpenAI164B
gpt-oss-20b (free)▼ -3
#49 · OpenAI153B
Kimi K2.5▼ -3
#55 · moonshotai110B
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813NEW
#7 · DeepSeek2.55T
Movement compares stored daily leaderboard snapshots, 2026-08-11 vs 2026-08-12, top 60 by OpenRouter token volume.
Rising ReposAll repos →
cathrynlavery/diagram-design
8,256 stars
+1,987
msitarzewski/agency-agents
A complete AI agency at your fingertips - From frontend wizards to Reddit community ninjas, from whimsy injectors to reality checkers. Each agent is a specializ
Shell · 143,157 stars
+1,369
PrimeIntellect-ai/prime-agent
14,070 stars
+1,034
earendil-works/pi
AI agent toolkit: unified LLM API, agent loop, TUI, coding agent CLI
TypeScript · 87,634 stars
+987
firecrawl/firecrawl
165,865 stars
+823
semantica-agi/semantica
4,847 stars
+780
Star growth measured between stored snapshots, 2026-08-11 vs 2026-08-12.
FundingAll deals →
Thrive Holdings
Investors: SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Alitmeter Capital
TechCrunch · 2026-08-12 · view source →
$2 billion
Lovable
TechCrunch · 2026-08-12 · view source →
$400M
ClearJet Series B
Investors: Edison Partners
Crunchbase News · 2026-08-12 · view source →
$25 million
Scaleup Europe
TechCrunch · 2026-08-11 · view source →
$5.7 billion
River AI
Investors: General Catalyst
TechCrunch · 2026-08-11 · view source →
$1.1 billion
Amounts are shown only when verified verbatim in the linked source, never estimated.
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