AI in July 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.

Month in progress, updated daily.
14 new models 13 funding events 10 repo risers 6 providers tracked 10 hype terms
← June 2026 | Current month |Daily Pulse →
New Models ListedRelease radar →
gpt-5.6-terra-pro OpenAI
openai/gpt-5.6-terra-pro · first listed 2026-07-09
gpt-5.6-terra OpenAI
openai/gpt-5.6-terra · first listed 2026-07-09
gpt-5.6-sol-pro OpenAI
openai/gpt-5.6-sol-pro · first listed 2026-07-09
gpt-5.6-sol OpenAI
openai/gpt-5.6-sol · first listed 2026-07-09
gpt-5.6-luna-pro OpenAI
openai/gpt-5.6-luna-pro · first listed 2026-07-09
gpt-5.6-luna OpenAI
openai/gpt-5.6-luna · first listed 2026-07-09
grok-latest xAI
x-ai/grok-latest · first listed 2026-07-08
grok-4.5 xAI
x-ai/grok-4.5 · first listed 2026-07-08
aion-3.0-mini Aion Labs
aion-labs/aion-3.0-mini · first listed 2026-07-08
aion-3.0 Aion Labs
aion-labs/aion-3.0 · first listed 2026-07-08
nex-n2-mini Nex Agi
nex-agi/nex-n2-mini · first listed 2026-07-07
hy3 Tencent
tencent/hy3 · first listed 2026-07-06
laguna-xs-2.1 Poolside
poolside/laguna-xs-2.1 · first listed 2026-07-02
claude-sonnet-5 Anthropic
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 · first listed 2026-07-01
First listed on OpenRouter within our tracked window during July 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 →
13 funding events tracked from 13 companies, with $3.4B in disclosed amounts across 13 of them.
Paradigm
2026-07-08 · view source →
$1.2B
SambaNova
2026-07-08 · view source →
$1B
Lovable
2026-07-08 · view source →
$300 million
Fundamentum third fund
2026-07-09 · view source →
$200M
Prime Intellect Series A
2026-07-08 · view source →
$130M
Norm Series C
2026-07-07 · view source →
$120 million
Lyzr
2026-07-09 · view source →
$100 million
Gradium seed
2026-07-09 · view source →
$100M
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 →
1usestrix/strix
39,606 stars · snapshots 2026-07-01 to 2026-07-10
+11,517
2MadsLorentzen/ai-job-search
18,914 stars · snapshots 2026-07-07 to 2026-07-10
+10,591
3msitarzewski/agency-agents
129,296 stars · snapshots 2026-07-01 to 2026-07-09
+8,472
4Zackriya-Solutions/meetily
22,190 stars · snapshots 2026-07-04 to 2026-07-10
+7,740
5addyosmani/agent-skills
75,841 stars · snapshots 2026-07-01 to 2026-07-10
+7,532
6obra/superpowers
249,795 stars · snapshots 2026-07-01 to 2026-07-09
+7,319
7JuliusBrussee/caveman
86,807 stars · snapshots 2026-07-02 to 2026-07-09
+7,289
8asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks
55,135 stars · snapshots 2026-07-04 to 2026-07-10
+6,725
9calesthio/OpenMontage
36,152 stars · snapshots 2026-07-01 to 2026-07-10
+6,304
10diegosouzapw/OmniRoute
14,302 stars · snapshots 2026-07-01 to 2026-07-10
+5,832
Star growth between each repo's first and last stored daily snapshot within July 2026. Real recorded counts, never estimated.
Provider Share ShiftMarket share →
DeepSeek
17.4% → 18.1% of tracked token volume
+0.8 pp
Anthropic
14.3% → 15.4% of tracked token volume
+1.1 pp
Xiaomi
10.5% → 10.6% of tracked token volume
+0.1 pp
Google
9% → 9.2% of tracked token volume
+0.1 pp
MiniMax
8.7% → 9.1% of tracked token volume
+0.5 pp
OpenAI
7.4% → 7.5% of tracked token volume
+0.1 pp
Share of tracked OpenRouter token volume: first week of stored snapshots (2026-07-01 to 2026-07-07) vs last week (2026-07-04 to 2026-07-10), 10 snapshot days in the month. OpenRouter routed volume only, not the whole AI market.
Top Hype TermsHype meter →
agents 137Google 80OpenAI 79LLM 78Anthropic 61Claude 57code generation 38reasoning 32Elon Musk 30open source 26
Deterministic mention counts across AI news, Hacker News stories, research papers and GitHub trending repos in July 2026. No AI-generated numbers.