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Trending in AI Right Now

Not opinions — usage. Models ranked by real tokens processed per day, open-source models the community is downloading, and repos gaining stars fastest. Last radar sweep: 21 Aug 2026.

Most-used models (tokens/day)

Real routed usage across thousands of apps — data via OpenRouter, 2026-08-20.

  1. 1.DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 · DeepSeek1.8T
  2. 2.DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 · DeepSeek1.7T
  3. 3.DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 · DeepSeek1.7T
  4. 4.tencent/hy31.6T
  5. 5.tencent/hy31.3T
  6. 6.xiaomi/mimo-v2.51.2T
  7. 7.tencent/hy31.2T
  8. 8.xiaomi/mimo-v2.51.2T
  9. 9.xiaomi/mimo-v2.51.2T
  10. 10.GPT-5.6 Luna · OpenAI1.0T
  11. 11.DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 · DeepSeek861.3B
  12. 12.GPT-5.6 Luna · OpenAI806.7B

Trending open-source models

By Hugging Face trending score (community downloads + likes momentum).

  1. 1.Qwen/Qwen3.8-27Bimage-text-to-text
  2. 2.Qwen/Qwen3.8-27Bimage-text-to-text
  3. 3.Qwen/Qwen3.8-27Bimage-text-to-text
  4. 4.unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF
  5. 5.unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF
  6. 6.unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF
  7. 7.Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95Btext-generation
  8. 8.MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Music3text-to-audio
  9. 9.MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Music3text-to-audio
  10. 10.Lightricks/LTX-2.5image-to-video
  11. 11.MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Music3text-to-audio
  12. 12.orcarouter/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-MLXimage-text-to-text

Rising AI repos (last 14 days)

New repositories gaining stars fastest (topics: llm, ai-agents).

  1. DeepSeek Harness: Everything is a Plugin.

  2. DeepSeek Harness: Everything is a Plugin.

  3. DeepSeek Harness: Everything is a Plugin.

  4. Open-source AI coworkers that each get a computer of their own: a browser, files and tools, with every action decided before it happens and recorded after. Bring any AG-UI agent.

  5. DSHDesktop:DeepSeek Harness Desktop

  6. Turn any technical book PDF into a Claude Code skill — ready to study, reference, and use while you work.

  7. Turn any technical book PDF into a Claude Code skill — ready to study, reference, and use while you work.

  8. DeepSeek Harness Desktop

  9. Turn any technical book PDF into a Claude Code skill — ready to study, reference, and use while you work.

  10. 600 行 TypeScript 写成的超级迷你版 pi,让你轻松从 0 写出属于你的 pi-agent

SDK adoption pulse (downloads/week)

Which AI stacks developers actually install — npm + PyPI weekly downloads.

npm

@modelcontextprotocol/sdk43.7M
@modelcontextprotocol/sdk43.5M
@modelcontextprotocol/sdk35.1M
openai29.1M
openai29.1M
openai29.0M
@anthropic-ai/sdk28.5M
@anthropic-ai/sdk28.4M
@anthropic-ai/sdk22.5M
ai18.5M

PyPI

litellm174.0M
litellm171.9M
litellm167.4M
openai110.0M
openai109.2M
openai108.7M
mcp90.4M
mcp88.2M
google-genai69.9M
google-genai69.9M

Sources & methodology

Usage rankings via OpenRouter's public datasets (tokens routed per day across thousands of apps). Open-source trend via Hugging Face trending score. Repos via GitHub search (created <14 days, by stars). Downloads via npm & PyPI public stats (absolute counts include CI — watch trends, not absolutes). Collected daily; no affiliate links on this page.