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.

58 new models 47 funding events 10 repo risers 6 providers tracked 10 hype terms
← June 2026 | August 2026 → |Daily Pulse →
New Models ListedRelease radar →
inkling-small Thinkingmachines
thinkingmachines/inkling-small · first listed 2026-07-31
gen-4.5 Runway
runway/gen-4.5 · first listed 2026-07-31 · launch price Free in / Free out per MTok
aleph-2 Runway
runway/aleph-2 · first listed 2026-07-31 · launch price Free in / Free out per MTok
hailuo-3 MiniMax
minimax/hailuo-3 · first listed 2026-07-31 · launch price Free in / Free out per MTok
transcribe-1 Fish Audio
fish-audio/transcribe-1 · first listed 2026-07-31 · launch price $100 in / Free out per MTok
s2.1-pro-free Fish Audio
fish-audio/s2.1-pro-free · first listed 2026-07-31 · launch price Free in / Free out per MTok
s2.1-pro Fish Audio
fish-audio/s2.1-pro · first listed 2026-07-31 · launch price $15 in / Free out per MTok
s2-pro Fish Audio
fish-audio/s2-pro · first listed 2026-07-31 · launch price $15 in / Free out per MTok
s1 Fish Audio
fish-audio/s1 · first listed 2026-07-31 · launch price $15 in / Free out per MTok
deepseek-v4-flash-0731 DeepSeek
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 · first listed 2026-07-31 · launch price $0.14 in / $0.28 out per MTok
voyage-multimodal-3.5 Voyageai
voyageai/voyage-multimodal-3.5 · first listed 2026-07-29 · launch price $0.12 in / Free out per MTok
voyage-4-lite Voyageai
voyageai/voyage-4-lite · first listed 2026-07-29 · launch price $0.02 in / Free out per MTok
voyage-4-large Voyageai
voyageai/voyage-4-large · first listed 2026-07-29 · launch price $0.12 in / Free out per MTok
voyage-4 Voyageai
voyageai/voyage-4 · first listed 2026-07-29 · launch price $0.06 in / Free out per MTok
rerank-2.5-lite Voyageai
voyageai/rerank-2.5-lite · first listed 2026-07-29 · launch price Free in / Free out per MTok
Showing 15 of 58 new listings this month.
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 →
47 funding events tracked from 47 companies, with $37.9B in disclosed amounts across 46 of them.
SK Hynix
2026-07-10 · view source →
$26.5B
Index Ventures
2026-07-31 · view source →
$2B
Atoms
2026-07-22 · view source →
$1.7B
Greylock
2026-07-16 · view source →
$1.5B
Paradigm
2026-07-08 · view source →
$1.2B
IM8
2026-07-14 · view source →
$1B
SambaNova
2026-07-08 · view source →
$1B
Anthropic Series D
2026-07-22 · view source →
$500M
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 →
1mattpocock/skills
196,222 stars · snapshots 2026-07-04 to 2026-07-31
+40,158
2diegosouzapw/OmniRoute
35,129 stars · snapshots 2026-07-01 to 2026-07-31
+26,659
3bojieli/ai-agent-book
27,356 stars · snapshots 2026-07-20 to 2026-07-31
+21,981
4stablyai/orca
30,792 stars · snapshots 2026-07-01 to 2026-07-28
+21,132
5obra/superpowers
263,262 stars · snapshots 2026-07-01 to 2026-07-30
+20,786
6MadsLorentzen/ai-job-search
26,797 stars · snapshots 2026-07-07 to 2026-07-26
+18,474
7usestrix/strix
45,334 stars · snapshots 2026-07-01 to 2026-07-29
+17,245
8OpenCut-app/OpenCut
77,566 stars · snapshots 2026-07-02 to 2026-07-23
+16,307
9NousResearch/hermes-agent
222,870 stars · snapshots 2026-07-01 to 2026-07-31
+15,975
10Panniantong/Agent-Reach
62,937 stars · snapshots 2026-07-01 to 2026-07-31
+15,903
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% → 19.2% of tracked token volume
+1.9 pp
Xiaomi
10.5% → 18.5% of tracked token volume
+8 pp
Tencent
7.7% → 10.7% of tracked token volume
+3 pp
Anthropic
14.3% → 9.1% of tracked token volume
-5.2 pp
Google
9% → 8.1% of tracked token volume
-0.9 pp
Z.ai
6.4% → 6.5% 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 (2026-07-25 to 2026-07-31), 31 snapshot days in the month. OpenRouter routed volume only, not the whole AI market.
Top Hype TermsHype meter →
OpenAI 1,843agents 1,662Google 1,543Anthropic 1,334Claude 1,038Elon Musk 658code generation 589ChatGPT 553Amazon 524funding round 524
Deterministic mention counts across AI news, Hacker News stories, research papers and GitHub trending repos in July 2026. No AI-generated numbers.