AI in August 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 34 funding events 10 repo risers 6 providers tracked 10 hype terms
← July 2026 | September 2026 → |Daily Pulse →
New Models ListedRelease radar →
hy4-preview Tencent
tencent/hy4-preview · first listed 2026-08-28 · launch price $0.83 in / $2.5 out per MTok
wan-3.0-prime Alibaba/Qwen
alibaba/wan-3.0-prime · first listed 2026-08-28 · launch price Free in / Free out per MTok
qwen3.8-flash Alibaba/Qwen
qwen/qwen3.8-flash · first listed 2026-08-27 · launch price $0.16 in / $0.47 out per MTok
ling-3.0-flash-fin Inclusionai
inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-fin · first listed 2026-08-27 · launch price Free in / Free out per MTok
glm-5.3-flash Z.ai
z-ai/glm-5.3-flash · first listed 2026-08-26 · launch price $0.08 in / $0.25 out per MTok
recraft-v4-styles-vector Recraft
recraft/recraft-v4-styles-vector · first listed 2026-08-26 · launch price Free in / Free out per MTok
recraft-v4-styles-pro-vector Recraft
recraft/recraft-v4-styles-pro-vector · first listed 2026-08-26 · launch price Free in / Free out per MTok
recraft-v4-styles-pro Recraft
recraft/recraft-v4-styles-pro · first listed 2026-08-26 · launch price Free in / Free out per MTok
recraft-v4-styles Recraft
recraft/recraft-v4-styles · first listed 2026-08-26 · launch price Free in / Free out per MTok
qwen3-reranker-4b Alibaba/Qwen
qwen/qwen3-reranker-4b · first listed 2026-08-26
qwen3-reranker-0.6b Alibaba/Qwen
qwen/qwen3-reranker-0.6b · first listed 2026-08-26
muse-image Meta
meta/muse-image · first listed 2026-08-26 · launch price Free in / Free out per MTok
avatar-iv Heygen
heygen/avatar-iv · first listed 2026-08-25 · launch price Free in / Free out per MTok
wan-3.0 Alibaba/Qwen
alibaba/wan-3.0 · first listed 2026-08-25 · launch price Free in / Free out per MTok
muse-spark-1.2-contributor Meta
meta/muse-spark-1.2-contributor · first listed 2026-08-22 · launch price $0.1 in / $0.2 out per MTok
Showing 15 of 58 new listings this month.
First listed on OpenRouter within our tracked window during August 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 →
34 funding events tracked from 31 companies, with $29B in disclosed amounts across 34 of them.
Andreessen Horowitz growth
2026-08-31 · view source →
$8.5B
Scaleup Europe
2026-08-11 · view source →
$5.7 billion
Databricks
2026-08-13 · view source →
$5B
Thrive Holdings
2026-08-12 · view source →
$2 billion
Atoms
2026-08-19 · view source →
$1.7 billion
River AI
2026-08-11 · view source →
$1.1 billion
Cognition
2026-08-12 · view source →
$1 billion
Lovable
2026-08-26 · view source →
$400 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 →
1mattpocock/skills
233,815 stars · snapshots 2026-08-01 to 2026-08-24
+36,015
2slopus/happy
23,075 stars · snapshots 2026-08-03 to 2026-08-04
+23,020
3zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill
32,651 stars · snapshots 2026-08-01 to 2026-08-31
+21,956
4diegosouzapw/OmniRoute
57,544 stars · snapshots 2026-08-01 to 2026-08-29
+21,442
5cathrynlavery/diagram-design
25,461 stars · snapshots 2026-08-11 to 2026-08-23
+19,192
6DietrichGebert/ponytail
117,157 stars · snapshots 2026-08-09 to 2026-08-31
+18,351
7earendil-works/pi
99,408 stars · snapshots 2026-08-01 to 2026-08-31
+17,931
8harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo
118,487 stars · snapshots 2026-08-01 to 2026-08-30
+17,675
9tt-a1i/archify
34,456 stars · snapshots 2026-08-26 to 2026-08-31
+17,673
10public-apis/public-apis
471,038 stars · snapshots 2026-08-01 to 2026-08-27
+17,207
Star growth between each repo's first and last stored daily snapshot within August 2026. Real recorded counts, never estimated.
Provider Share ShiftMarket share →
Stealth
0% → 20.6% of tracked token volume
+20.6 pp
DeepSeek
22.7% → 19.8% of tracked token volume
-2.9 pp
Xiaomi
12.8% → 10.1% of tracked token volume
-2.6 pp
OpenAI
9.6% → 9.3% of tracked token volume
-0.3 pp
Google
8.7% → 7.2% of tracked token volume
-1.5 pp
Tencent
8.8% → 7.1% of tracked token volume
-1.7 pp
Share of tracked OpenRouter token volume: first week of stored snapshots (2026-08-01 to 2026-08-07) vs last week (2026-08-25 to 2026-08-31), 31 snapshot days in the month. OpenRouter routed volume only, not the whole AI market.
Top Hype TermsHype meter →
agents 3,422OpenAI 3,211Google 2,250Anthropic 1,890open source 1,825LLM 1,677Claude 1,384ChatGPT 1,110code generation 822Amazon 805
Deterministic mention counts across AI news, Hacker News stories, research papers and GitHub trending repos in August 2026. No AI-generated numbers.