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2026-08-01

where things stand

First-day snapshot — where things stand now. Diff mode resumes tomorrow once we have two days to compare.

SDK adoptionCurrent adoption leaders across six registries

Package install volume is where developers place real bets — distinct from where labs are shipping marketing. pypistats.org, npmjs.com, crates.io · view all →

PyPI: huggingface-hub

17.5M 24h downloads

pypistats.org is a third-party aggregator — counts include mirror hits, CI builds, and pip install retries.

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npm: openai

5.5M 24h downloads

npm · View →

crates.io: ort

5.3M 90d downloads

crates.io · View →

Docker Hub: ollama/ollama

159.1M all-time pulls

Docker Hub · View →

Homebrew: ollama

50.5k 30d downloads

Homebrew · View →

VS Code Marketplace: GitHub.copilot

74.3M cumulative installs

VS Code Marketplace · View →

Model Usagexiaomi/mimo-v2.5 holds #1 · biggest mover: deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash +45 to #2 · biggest drop: moonshotai/kimi-k2.6 -49

OpenRouter rankings reflect API-first developer spend; direct customers like consumer ChatGPT are invisible by construction. openrouter.ai · view all →

+45

deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash

was #47 on 2026-04-26

OpenRouter request volume reflects developer API spending, not end-user adoption. Biased toward API-first workflows that route through OpenRouter — direct OpenAI / Anthropic / Google customers who never use OpenRouter are invisible.

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-49

moonshotai/kimi-k2.6

was #1 on 2026-04-26

OpenRouter · View →

#1 xiaomi/mimo-v2.5

#1 xiaomi/mimo-v2.5

OpenRouter · View →

#2 deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash

#2 deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash

OpenRouter · View →

#3 tencent/hy3

#3 tencent/hy3

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Tool Health

Current status of 5 tracked tools

Why this matters · Provider outages and degradations cause retry storms upstream. Tracking the 7-day shape catches flapping providers before they page you.

Tool health, 7 days ending 2026-08-01: daily 04:00 UTC snapshot per tool. Green operational, amber degraded, red outage, grey no data.

Benchmark movers

Current LMArena top 3

Why this matters · Public benchmarks are gameable, but rank shuffles still hint at where the frontier is genuinely moving.

  • #1 claude-opus-5-max

    anthropic · 1512 Elo

    LMArena

  • #2 claude-opus-5-high

    anthropic · 1505 Elo

    LMArena

  • #3 claude-opus-4-6-thinking

    anthropic · 1503 Elo

    LMArena

Top HN stories

Top 5 on HN in the last 24h

Why this matters · What developers debate on Hacker News often previews which models, frameworks, and patterns they'll actually adopt next.

  • Everyone is building LLM routers, we deprecated ours

    20 points · 9 comments

    news.ycombinator.com

  • Demystifying DRAM Read Disturbance: RowHammer and RowPress Phenomena

    16 points · 10 comments

    news.ycombinator.com

  • Orca-Bench: How Ready Are Language Model Agents for Oncall?

    12 points · 3 comments

    news.ycombinator.com

  • Show HN: How to build and self-host a code review agent

    10 points · 2 comments

    news.ycombinator.com

  • Explorative Modeling – A new axis for pre-training

    8 points · 4 comments

    news.ycombinator.com

Notable AI Lab activity

Top 5 labs by 24h activity

Why this matters · GitHub event volume on a lab's own repos is the cleanest publicly-verifiable proxy for engineering activity we have.

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