// lab
The AI landscape, live
Choosing the right model and keeping up with the field is part of the job. Everything on this page is pulled live from public sources, so it's always current.
// models
Frontier model leaderboard
Switch between intelligence, speed and price, filter by provider, or flip to the table. Hover a bar for the full picture.
live from Artificial Analysis
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index: a blend of reasoning, knowledge, maths and coding benchmarks · sorted high to low
- Gemini 4 Carbon (High)60.0
- Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback)59.1
- Gemini 4 Carbon (Medium)58.3
- Claude Opus 5.5 (Xhigh, Default Fallback)57.4
- GPT-6 Astra (Max)56.9
- Claude Fable 5.2 (Medium, Default Fallback)56.4
- GPT-6 Astra (Xhigh)55.3
- GPT-6 Astra (High)54.8
- GPT-6.1 Sol (Max)54.6
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback)54.5
- Gemini 4 Carbon (Low)54.2
- GPT-6.1 Sol (Xhigh)52.5
- Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback)51.8
- GPT-6 Astra (Medium)51.6
- GPT-6.1 Terra (Max)51.3
- Gemini 4 Argon (High)50.4
- GPT-6.1 Sol (High)50.3
- Muse Wonder Full (Max)50.1
- Claude Fable 5.1 (Xhigh, Default Fallback)50.0
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Xhigh, Default Fallback)49.9
- Claude Fable 5.1 (Max, Default Fallback)49.2
- Claude Opus 5.5 (Medium, Default Fallback)48.2
- Claude Fable 5.1 (High, Default Fallback)47.2
- Kimi K3.1 Pro46.5
Data from Artificial Analysis.
// history
The AI explosion
live from Epoch AI · updated daily
- raised by frontier AI labs in 2026 so far, vs $580M in 2022
- $280B
- raised by frontier AI labs in 2026 so far, vs $580M in 2022
- growth in Anthropic's revenue run rate, from $100M in Oct 2023 to $81B
- 810×
- growth in Anthropic's revenue run rate, from $100M in Oct 2023 to $81B
- people using ChatGPT every week (Sep 2026), up from 50M in Mar 2023
- 1.2B
- people using ChatGPT every week (Sep 2026), up from 50M in Mar 2023
Closed funding rounds (equity and debt) for the frontier AI labs Epoch tracks, by year.
- openai
- anthropic
- xai
- deepseek
- others
* 2026 so far
Data: Epoch AI, AI Companies and Notable AI Models (CC BY 4.0). Funding and revenue figures are often press reports, so treat them as close rather than exact.
// geography
Where AI comes from
The same models, by the country of the lab that built them. Press play to watch the race since 2010, scrub through the years, or drag to spin the globe.
live from Epoch AI · updated daily
Spike height grows with the square root of models released, so smaller players stay visible. Jointly built models count for each country involved.
// trending
What's moving right now
Trending open models
Hugging Face
- 01speridlabs/idolimage-to-3d · 1.6k likes · 24.7k downloads
- 02xtools-at/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Qwen3.5-9B-UNCENSORED-heretictext-generation · 1k likes · 11.8k downloads
- 03moonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Proimage-text-to-text · 1.8k likes · 27.9k downloads
- 04ricursiveAI/Ripple-65B-Preview448 likes · 5.8k downloads
- 05Lightricks/LTX-2.5image-to-video · 11.3k likes · 2.7m downloads
- 06ccore/Qwen3.5-4B-3D-Coder947 likes · 289.5k downloads
Papers of the day
HF Papers
- 01From Autonomous Agents to Cognitive Symbionts: Toward AI-Augmented Human Intelligence120 upvotes · arXiv 2611.05376
- 02Decoupled Predictive Decision Making: A Shared Conditional Predictor for Agents81 upvotes · arXiv 2611.02075
- 03SplatAnything: Gaussian Spacing Normalization for Feed-forward 3DGS across Arbitrary Scenes60 upvotes · arXiv 2611.08264
- 04P^2-MOPD: Accelerating Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation via Parameter Priors42 upvotes · arXiv 2611.03953
- 05TailSteer: Trajectory-Tail Steering for Drift-Resistant Multi-turn Image Editing41 upvotes · arXiv 2611.06741
- 06EvoMemState: Evolving Memory State for Personal Agents35 upvotes · arXiv 2611.03743
Rising AI repos
GitHub
- 01wangzan101/Mika★ 7.9k · Kotlin · An on-device AI agent for Android that operates apps and the web to get things done for you.
- 02modelflare-ai/AnyModelBot★ 2.8k · Python · 🤖 Open-source, local-first alternative to Grok Bot, OpenAI dots and Claude Duet. Your own AI bots on any model: GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM and 70+ more through one Modelflare key. Reach them in the app, WeChat or Feishu; they remember you, work in the background, run commands and use your computer. Pay per use.
- 03N1nEmAn/sapper-v2★ 1.8k · Python · Autonomous pentest legion — AI commander + worker swarm + layered fact-intent graph. 3rd Tencent Intelligent Attack-Defense online champion (634 teams · 8h unattended · 1B tokens beat 4.5B). The Nüwa Test: give AIs Create/Language/History, let a civilization grow.
- 04Sandflow-ai/sand3d★ 1.6k · HTML · 3D modeling in Python, built for LLMs.
- 05jackwener/DSH-Android★ 895 · Kotlin · 免 ROOT 免 Termux,一个 APK 在安卓手机上跑 DeepSeek Harness。引擎内嵌 App 进程 · 读屏操作 App · 改系统设置 · 定时/条件自动化 · 可选 Shizuku
- 06wanghao-SunSky/cs329z-chinese★ 533 · HTML · 斯坦福 Stanford CS329Z Engineering AI Agents 中文教程:面向 Python 开发者的 AI 智能体课程,19 讲与 4 项实践,涵盖 LLM、RAG、工具调用、记忆、多智能体、评测与安全。完整 Markdown、在线与离线 HTML。Chinese course notes.
// reading
What the AI world is talking about
live from Hacker News · top stories this week
- 01Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API datagithub.com · 1527 points · 498 comments · 6d ago
- 02AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debtspectrum.ieee.org · 1307 points · 749 comments · 5d ago
- 03Fold Epic Paper Airplanesfoldableflight.com · 753 points · 128 comments · 10h ago
- 04Google will turn off search for schools that reject AInytimes.com · 674 points · 470 comments · 6d ago
- 05A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower costhightouch.com · 599 points · 154 comments · 3d ago
- 06Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?news.ycombinator.com · 569 points · 699 comments · 5d ago
- 07I'm not convinced the AI bubble existsmatteoraso.github.io · 536 points · 920 comments · 22h ago
- 08Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs say $16B fraud revenuefinance.yahoo.com · 521 points · 233 comments · 4d ago
- 09The end of Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers grouphunch.net · 507 points · 309 comments · 2d ago
- 10Llama-modchip: 284B DeepSeek on 64GB RAM, no GPUgithub.com · 474 points · 204 comments · 2d ago