AI in June 2026

The month in AI from data this site recorded day by day: new model listings, funding events, rising repos, provider share and hype terms. Every number comes from stored daily snapshots.

8 new models 18 funding events 10 repo risers 6 providers tracked 10 hype terms
← No earlier recap | July 2026 → |Daily Pulse →
New Models ListedRelease radar →
gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image Google
google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image · first listed 2026-06-30
command-r-08-2024 Cohere
cohere/command-r-08-2024 · first listed 2026-06-25
fugu-ultra Sakana
sakana/fugu-ultra · first listed 2026-06-24
gpt-image-2 OpenAI
openai/gpt-image-2 · first listed 2026-06-24
gpt-image-1-mini OpenAI
openai/gpt-image-1-mini · first listed 2026-06-24
gpt-image-1 OpenAI
openai/gpt-image-1 · first listed 2026-06-24
happyhorse-1.1 Alibaba/Qwen
alibaba/happyhorse-1.1 · first listed 2026-06-24
happyhorse-1.0 Alibaba/Qwen
alibaba/happyhorse-1.0 · first listed 2026-06-24
First listed on OpenRouter within our tracked window during June 2026. Models already present on the very first catalog snapshot are baseline and excluded. Launch pricing is the listing-day catalog price when recorded.
FundingAll deals →
18 funding events tracked from 15 companies, with $14.4B in disclosed amounts across 17 of them.
Menlo Ventures
2026-06-23 · view source →
$3 billion
Menlo Ventures
2026-06-23 · view source →
$3B
Valor Equity Partners Fund VII
2026-06-24 · view source →
$2.5B
Benchmark growth
2026-06-04 · view source →
$2B
Baseten
2026-06-18 · view source →
$1.5 billion
Groq
2026-06-22 · view source →
$650M
General Intuition
2026-06-25 · view source →
$320 million
Seedcamp
2026-06-22 · view source →
$320 million
Amounts are summed only when stated verbatim in the linked source. Events without a source-verified amount are counted but never estimated.
Top Repo RisersAll repos →
1calesthio/OpenMontage
28,523 stars · snapshots 2026-06-19 to 2026-06-30
+22,624
2DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp
21,414 stars · snapshots 2026-06-19 to 2026-06-30
+13,898
3Panniantong/Agent-Reach
45,721 stars · snapshots 2026-06-19 to 2026-06-30
+10,941
4smicallef/spiderfoot
18,978 stars · snapshots 2026-06-21 to 2026-06-23
+10,413
5mattpocock/skills
147,455 stars · snapshots 2026-06-20 to 2026-06-27
+9,970
6obra/superpowers
242,042 stars · snapshots 2026-06-19 to 2026-06-30
+9,134
7palmier-io/palmier-pro
9,538 stars · snapshots 2026-06-19 to 2026-06-30
+8,141
8ZhuLinsen/daily_stock_analysis
51,805 stars · snapshots 2026-06-21 to 2026-06-30
+7,927
9chopratejas/headroom
44,271 stars · snapshots 2026-06-19 to 2026-06-22
+7,743
10topoteretes/cognee
25,657 stars · snapshots 2026-06-21 to 2026-06-30
+7,253
Star growth between each repo's first and last stored daily snapshot within June 2026. Real recorded counts, never estimated.
Provider Share ShiftMarket share →
DeepSeek
0% → 17.5% of tracked token volume
+17.5 pp
Anthropic
0% → 14.3% of tracked token volume
+14.3 pp
Xiaomi
0% → 10.6% of tracked token volume
+10.6 pp
Google
36.7% → 8.7% of tracked token volume
-28 pp
MiniMax
0% → 8.7% of tracked token volume
+8.7 pp
OpenAI
0% → 7.7% of tracked token volume
+7.7 pp
Share of tracked OpenRouter token volume: first week of stored snapshots (2026-06-01 to 2026-06-10) vs last week (2026-06-24 to 2026-06-30), 24 snapshot days in the month. OpenRouter routed volume only, not the whole AI market.
Top Hype TermsHype meter →
agents 89LLM 55reasoning 23benchmarks 16code generation 15multimodal 14China AI 12distillation 12multi-agent 11pretraining 11
Deterministic mention counts across AI news, Hacker News stories, research papers and GitHub trending repos in June 2026. No AI-generated numbers.