AI in September 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.

60 new models 49 funding events 10 repo risers 6 providers tracked 10 hype terms
← August 2026 | October 2026 → |Daily Pulse →
New Models ListedRelease radar →
rerank-3-lite Voyageai
voyageai/rerank-3-lite · first listed 2026-09-30 · launch price Free in / Free out per MTok
rerank-3 Voyageai
voyageai/rerank-3 · first listed 2026-09-30 · launch price Free in / Free out per MTok
gpt-6.1-sol-pro OpenAI
openai/gpt-6.1-sol-pro · first listed 2026-09-29 · launch price $1 in / $5 out per MTok
gpt-6.1-sol OpenAI
openai/gpt-6.1-sol · first listed 2026-09-29 · launch price $1 in / $5 out per MTok
claude-sonnet-5.5 Anthropic
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5 · first listed 2026-09-29 · launch price $1 in / $5 out per MTok
solar-decide Upstage
upstage/solar-decide · first listed 2026-09-28 · launch price $0.05 in / Free out per MTok
jev-router Typesafe
typesafe/jev-router · first listed 2026-09-26
span-01-lite Respan
respan/span-01-lite · first listed 2026-09-26 · launch price Free in / Free out per MTok
span-01 Respan
respan/span-01 · first listed 2026-09-26 · launch price $0.02 in / Free out per MTok
seed-audio-1-0 ByteDance
bytedance-seed/seed-audio-1-0 · first listed 2026-09-26 · launch price Free in / $2500 out per MTok
perceptron-mk1.5 Perceptron
perceptron/perceptron-mk1.5 · first listed 2026-09-25 · launch price $0.15 in / $1.5 out per MTok
gemini-3.5-transcribe Google
google/gemini-3.5-transcribe · first listed 2026-09-25 · launch price $2 in / $12 out per MTok
transcribe-1-pro Fish Audio
fish-audio/transcribe-1-pro · first listed 2026-09-25 · launch price $100 in / Free out per MTok
glm-5.3-prime Z.ai
z-ai/glm-5.3-prime · first listed 2026-09-24 · launch price $2.8 in / $8.8 out per MTok
qwen3.8-max-prime Alibaba/Qwen
qwen/qwen3.8-max-prime · first listed 2026-09-24 · launch price $4 in / $12 out per MTok
Showing 15 of 60 new listings this month.
First listed on OpenRouter within our tracked window during September 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 →
49 funding events tracked from 44 companies, with $101.8B in disclosed amounts across 46 of them.
OpenAI
2026-09-29 · view source →
$30B
OpenAI
2026-09-29 · view source →
$30B
Bessemer
2026-09-23 · view source →
$5.75B
Crusoe
2026-09-17 · view source →
$3.9B
Mistral AI Series D
2026-09-08 · view source →
$3.5 billion
Nscale pre-IPO financing
2026-09-04 · view source →
$3.5B
Nscale convertible financing
2026-09-25 · view source →
$3.36B
British AI neocloud Nscale convertible financing
2026-09-25 · view source →
$3.36B
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 →
1DietrichGebert/ponytail
145,988 stars · snapshots 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-26
+27,727
2mattpocock/skills
269,713 stars · snapshots 2026-09-02 to 2026-09-26
+25,115
3bilawalsidhu/gods-eye-view
40,569 stars · snapshots 2026-09-02 to 2026-09-22
+25,039
4tt-a1i/archify
63,530 stars · snapshots 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-16
+24,932
5affaan-m/ECC
267,489 stars · snapshots 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-26
+22,255
6ayghri/i-have-adhd
49,224 stars · snapshots 2026-09-08 to 2026-09-21
+21,105
7stablyai/orca
78,297 stars · snapshots 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-26
+19,482
8debpalash/VoiceStudio
32,011 stars · snapshots 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-17
+19,318
9alibaba/open-code-review
41,327 stars · snapshots 2026-09-13 to 2026-09-26
+18,454
10cloudflare/security-audit-skill
21,643 stars · snapshots 2026-09-16 to 2026-09-26
+16,156
Star growth between each repo's first and last stored daily snapshot within September 2026. Real recorded counts, never estimated.
Provider Share ShiftMarket share →
DeepSeek
18.9% → 24.6% of tracked token volume
+5.7 pp
Z.ai
13.8% → 16.5% of tracked token volume
+2.7 pp
OpenAI
14% → 12.3% of tracked token volume
-1.7 pp
Tencent
12.9% → 10.6% of tracked token volume
-2.4 pp
Xiaomi
5.7% → 6.2% of tracked token volume
+0.5 pp
Stealth
3.9% → 5.6% of tracked token volume
+1.7 pp
Share of tracked OpenRouter token volume: first week of stored snapshots (2026-09-01 to 2026-09-07) vs last week (2026-09-24 to 2026-09-30), 30 snapshot days in the month. OpenRouter routed volume only, not the whole AI market.
Top Hype TermsHype meter →
agents 4,218OpenAI 3,289open source 2,246Google 2,177Anthropic 1,983LLM 1,872Claude 1,456ChatGPT 1,086code generation 886MCP 881
Deterministic mention counts across AI news, Hacker News stories, research papers and GitHub trending repos in September 2026. No AI-generated numbers.