AI in October 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.
3 new models 10 hype terms
← September 2026 | Current month |Daily Pulse →
New Models ListedRelease radar →
tev1-4b-experimental Togethercomputer
togethercomputer/tev1-4b-experimental · first listed 2026-10-01 · launch price $0.04 in / Free out per MTok
mercury-decide Inception
inception/mercury-decide · first listed 2026-10-01 · launch price Free in / Free out per MTok
heygen-video-1 Heygen
heygen/heygen-video-1 · first listed 2026-10-01 · launch price Free in / Free out per MTok
First listed on OpenRouter within our tracked window during October 2026. Models already present on the very first catalog snapshot are baseline and excluded. Launch pricing is the listing-day catalog price when recorded.
Top Hype TermsHype meter →
agents 152OpenAI 111open source 73Google 71Anthropic 67LLM 64Claude 53ChatGPT 38MCP 33Amazon 27
Deterministic mention counts across AI news, Hacker News stories, research papers and GitHub trending repos in October 2026. No AI-generated numbers.