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Market pulse: AI trends in real numbers

What is rising in AI right now: GitHub star jumps, hot topics, the top repo of each month and who made the news.

Quick answer

Each chart below uses our own research files or public data, names its source and shows when it was updated. Right now: biggest one-week star jump: +19.5K stars (tt-a1i/archify, week of 31 Aug); hottest topic on GitHub: Coding (2 of the top 5 repos, week of 5 Oct); most-named AI company: OpenAI (in 22 of our 50 monthly top stories).

  • 8 charts
  • Updated 18 Oct 2026
  • Every chart names its source

Every chart

8 charts. Open "Source and method" under any chart to see where its numbers come from.

Repos we picked this week: GitHub stars

Updated 17 Oct 2026, 06:10 IST

  1. refactoringhq/tolaria20.1K
  2. krillinai/OpenCreator +239 that day13.5K
  3. shaongitbd/doory1.4K
  4. opennookorg/betterwispr371

What this means: refactoringhq/tolaria is the most-starred pick this week with 20.1K stars when we checked. Stars are a rough sign of how many people find a tool useful.

Source and method

Source: our daily research packs, last 7 days (2 days of data)

Biggest one-week star jumps

Updated 15 Oct 2026, 03:56 IST

  1. tt-a1i/archify week of 31 Aug+19.5K
  2. ayghri/i-have-adhd week of 7 Sep+15.9K
  3. alibaba/open-code-review week of 14 Sep+15.0K
  4. tt-a1i/archify week of 24 Aug+14.9K
  5. vectorize-io/hindsight week of 28 Sep+14.5K
  6. freestylefly/awesome-gpt-image-2 week of 24 Aug+13.1K
  7. DietrichGebert/ponytail week of 31 Aug+11.7K
  8. paperclipai/paperclip week of 28 Sep+10.7K

What this means: tt-a1i/archify gained the most in a single week (+19.5K stars, week of 31 Aug). AI add-on that draws clean system and workflow diagrams.

Source and method

Source: weekly top 5 trending repos (research/weekly_2026.json), last 8 weeks, 17 Aug to 5 Oct

Hot topics on GitHub, week by week

Updated 15 Oct 2026, 03:56 IST

TopicLast 8 weeksWeek of 5 Oct

  • CodingCoding: 17 Aug 2, 24 Aug 1, 31 Aug 1, 7 Sep 3, 14 Sep 4, 21 Sep 2, 28 Sep 0, 5 Oct 22▲ 2
  • AgentsAgents: 17 Aug 1, 24 Aug 1, 31 Aug 1, 7 Sep 0, 14 Sep 0, 21 Sep 2, 28 Sep 3, 5 Oct 11▼ 2
  • VideoVideo: 17 Aug 1, 24 Aug 0, 31 Aug 0, 7 Sep 0, 14 Sep 0, 21 Sep 0, 28 Sep 0, 5 Oct 11▲ 1
  • DesignDesign: 17 Aug 0, 24 Aug 2, 31 Aug 1, 7 Sep 1, 14 Sep 0, 21 Sep 0, 28 Sep 0, 5 Oct 00=
  • VoiceVoice: 17 Aug 0, 24 Aug 0, 31 Aug 1, 7 Sep 0, 14 Sep 0, 21 Sep 0, 28 Sep 1, 5 Oct 00▼ 1
  • DataData: 17 Aug 0, 24 Aug 0, 31 Aug 0, 7 Sep 1, 14 Sep 1, 21 Sep 0, 28 Sep 0, 5 Oct 00=
  • SecuritySecurity: 17 Aug 0, 24 Aug 0, 31 Aug 0, 7 Sep 0, 14 Sep 0, 21 Sep 1, 28 Sep 0, 5 Oct 00=
  • OtherOther: 17 Aug 1, 24 Aug 1, 31 Aug 1, 7 Sep 0, 14 Sep 0, 21 Sep 0, 28 Sep 1, 5 Oct 11=

What this means: Coding led the week of 5 Oct with 2 of the top 5 repos. Arrows compare with the week before.

Source and method

Source: weekly top 5 trending repos, sorted into topics by keywords in each repo's description. Weeks 17 Aug to 5 Oct

The top repo of each month

Updated 15 Oct 2026, 03:56 IST

  1. Jan openclaw/openclawabout +132K
  2. Feb openclaw/openclawabout +110K
  3. Mar openclaw/openclawabout +105K
  4. Apr NousResearch/hermes-agent+68K
  5. May multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills+6.3K
  6. Jun DietrichGebert/ponytail+68K
  7. Jul mattpocock/skills+40K
  8. Aug deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness+152K
  9. Sep tt-a1i/archify+36K
  10. Oct storytold/photocraft+58K

What this means: The biggest month belonged to deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness in August, about 152K new stars. Gains are rounded as listed.

Source and method

Source: monthly top 5 (research/repos_by_month.json), stars gained per month, Jan to Oct 2026 (this month so far)

Which AI companies made our top stories

Updated 15 Oct 2026, 03:56 IST

  • OpenAIOpenAI: Jan 2, Feb 0, Mar 3, Apr 3, May 3, Jun 1, Jul 3, Aug 2, Sep 2, Oct 322
  • AnthropicAnthropic: Jan 0, Feb 4, Mar 1, Apr 2, May 2, Jun 3, Jul 1, Aug 0, Sep 1, Oct 115
  • GoogleGoogle: Jan 1, Feb 0, Mar 0, Apr 0, May 1, Jun 1, Jul 1, Aug 1, Sep 0, Oct 05
  • NVIDIANVIDIA: Jan 0, Feb 0, Mar 2, Apr 0, May 0, Jun 0, Jul 1, Aug 1, Sep 1, Oct 05
  • xAIxAI: Jan 1, Feb 1, Mar 0, Apr 0, May 0, Jun 1, Jul 0, Aug 0, Sep 0, Oct 03
  • AppleApple: Jan 1, Feb 0, Mar 0, Apr 0, May 0, Jun 1, Jul 0, Aug 0, Sep 0, Oct 13
  • AmazonAmazon: Jan 1, Feb 0, Mar 1, Apr 0, May 0, Jun 0, Jul 0, Aug 0, Sep 0, Oct 02
  • Hugging FaceHugging Face: Jan 0, Feb 0, Mar 0, Apr 0, May 0, Jun 0, Jul 1, Aug 0, Sep 1, Oct 02

JanOctTotal

What this means: OpenAI showed up most, in 22 of our 50 monthly top stories. Each line shares the same scale (0 to 4 stories a month).

Source and method

Source: our monthly top 5 AI stories (research/ai_news_by_month.json), Jan to Oct 2026. Counts stories naming the company or its main AI product (like ChatGPT for OpenAI), not all news

Where our top stories come from

Updated 15 Oct 2026, 03:56 IST

  1. CNBC34
  2. CNN10
  3. TechCrunch6

What this means: CNBC is our most-used source (34 of 50 stories). We link the source next to every fact.

Source and method

Source: research/ai_news_by_month.json, 50 stories, Jan to Oct

Trending AI models on Hugging Face

Updated 17 Oct 2026, 22:31 IST

  1. google/embeddinggemma-2feature extraction · 2.6K likes · 158.5K downloads
  2. jialinyyzz/humanizertext generation · 1.9K likes · 95.9K downloads
  3. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017image text to text · 763 likes
  4. openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3Bimage text to text · 888 likes · 36.3K downloads
  5. fishaudio/drama-3text to speech · 602 likes · 8.2K downloads
  6. black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein-comfyimage to image · 605 likes · 224.1K downloads
  7. meta-models/Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42Bimage text to text · 488 likes · 1.6K downloads
  8. Lightricks/LTX-2.5image to video · 8.2K likes · 2M downloads

What this means: What people on Hugging Face are liking and trying most right now. New releases jump up here before they reach the news.

Source and method

Source: Hugging Face (live API)

Trending AI demos on Hugging Face

Updated 17 Oct 2026, 22:31 IST

  1. multimodalart/jev-decision-index709 likes
  2. black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein90 likes
  3. autotrust/shorts166 likes
  4. autotrust/news170 likes
  5. Viggle/Qwen-Image-2.1-viggle-turbo334 likes
  6. fishaudio/Drama-373 likes

What this means: Demos ranked by how fast they are getting likes. Some are experiments, so check before you rely on one.

Source and method

Source: Hugging Face (live API)

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How we make these charts
  • Every chart uses our own research files or a public API, and names its source.
  • Charts with too little data stay hidden until there is enough.
  • Topics are sorted by keywords in each repo's description, so a repo can land in a near topic.
  • Star counts are as listed on the day we checked; gains are rounded the way the source lists them.
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