
LLM Foundations (2026-07)
Frontier base models in active production use · top 20 · as_of 2026-07-22
- Leaderboard LM Arena / Chatbot ArenaPublic Text/Code/Agent arena boards (ex-LMSYS; HF Space is a mirror entry)
- Leaderboard LMSYS Arena HF Space (mirror)Arena HF Space mirror (often more reachable)
- Public API OpenRouter Models APIMachine-readable model catalog (id/pricing/context)
- Leaderboard Artificial AnalysisIndependent quality/speed/price comparison
- Leaderboard Hugging Face Open LLM LeaderboardOpen-weight evaluation entry point
| # | Name | Why on this map |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Fable 5 / Opus 4.8 class Map priority: 100 | Primary long-horizon control-plane class; still top-tier on agent/SWE boards |
| 2 | GPT-5.6-Sol / GPT-5.5 Pro class Map priority: 99 | Coding/STEM flagship; default executor in Codex and ChatGPT product surface |
| 3 | Gemini 3.1 / 3.x class Map priority: 98 | Long-context science/multimodal surface tightly tied to Google stack |
| 4 | Grok 4.5 / xAI Map priority: 97 | Realtime + X-native retrieval; cost-effective cross-check route |
| 5 | DeepSeek-V3 / R1 class Map priority: 96 | Open-weight reasoning cost leader for private/local deploy |
| 6 | Qwen3 / Qwen 3.7 class (Alibaba) Map priority: 95 | Active bilingual + contest-math line; open and cloud dual track |
| 7 | Llama 4 class (Meta) Map priority: 94 | Default open ecosystem base; wide fine-tune and private deploy |
| 8 | Mistral Large / Mixtral line Map priority: 93 | EU-positioned open/API line favored in enterprise procurement |
| 9 | Kimi K3 / Moonshot long-context Map priority: 92 | Long-context + strong frontend-code arena presence; CN document workflows |
| 10 | GLM-5.x / Zhipu Map priority: 91 | CN API + open dual track; frequent open-weight Arena contender |
| 11 | Amazon Nova class Map priority: 90 | Bedrock-native tiered models default inside AWS accounts |
| 12 | Claude Sonnet 5 / writing tier Map priority: 89 | Writing/instruction-following product default; cost-efficient daily writing tier |
| 13 | o-series / deliberative reasoners Map priority: 88 | Explicit multi-step reasoning route for hard second-pass work |
| 14 | Claude Haiku / fast tier Map priority: 87 | Low-latency triage tier used as cheap front filter |
| 15 | Phi-4 / small strong on-device Map priority: 86 | On-device/edge small models for privacy and offline |
| 16 | Cohere Command / Embed / Rerank Map priority: 85 | Still common specialized components for enterprise RAG stacks |
| 17 | xAI image/video generation stack Map priority: 84 | Same-vendor multimodal gen stack beside Grok chat |
| 18 | OpenAI Images 2.0 / GPT Image 2 Map priority: 83 | High-res controllable product-image path used in delivery |
| 19 | Local GGUF 70B-class (llama.cpp) Map priority: 82 | Fully offline private inference baseline for air-gapped envs |
| 20 | Command R+ / retrieval-first LLMs Map priority: 81 | Retrieval-first enterprise QA family still on buy lists |

Agent Frameworks & Runtimes
Orchestration layers that ship systems · top 20 · as_of 2026-07-22
- Official docs Model Context Protocol SpecCross-runtime tool protocol standard
- Official docs LangGraph DocumentationStateful agent graph runtime docs
- Official docs Anthropic Claude Agent SDKOfficial Claude Agent SDK docs (same tool loop as Claude Code)
- Official docs OpenAI Agents SDKOpenAI Agents Python SDK
| # | Name | Why on this map |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LangGraph Adoption: 100 | Stateful recoverable graphs; a de-facto complex-agent standard |
| 2 | Claude Agent SDK / Claude Code harness Adoption: 99 | Native coding-agent harness with hooks/skills |
| 3 | OpenAI Agents SDK Adoption: 98 | Hosted tool-loop with MCP integration path |
| 4 | MCP (Model Context Protocol) Adoption: 97 | Tool protocol standard across IDEs/runtimes |
| 5 | CrewAI Adoption: 96 | Role-based multi-agent team templates |
| 6 | AutoGen / AG2 Adoption: 95 | Multi-agent conversational collaboration patterns |
| 7 | Semantic Kernel Adoption: 94 | Enterprise plugin orchestration (.NET/Python) |
| 8 | LlamaIndex Workflows Adoption: 93 | Data/index-centric agent pipelines |
| 9 | Dify Adoption: 92 | Low-code agent app build and publish |
| 10 | n8n + AI nodes Adoption: 91 | Workflow automation with embedded LLM steps |
| 11 | Temporal + LLM workers Adoption: 90 | Durable long-running agent jobs |
| 12 | Mastra Adoption: 89 | TypeScript-native agent framework |
| 13 | PydanticAI Adoption: 88 | Typed Python agent tooling |
| 14 | Cursor Agent mode Adoption: 87 | In-IDE multi-file agent UX default |
| 15 | Codex CLI Adoption: 86 | Terminal-side OpenAI coding agent |
| 16 | Aider Adoption: 85 | Git-diff-aware CLI pair programmer |
| 17 | Browser-use / computer-use stacks Adoption: 84 | GUI/browser action agents |
| 18 | Haystack Adoption: 83 | Composable NLP/RAG/agent pipelines |
| 19 | OpenClaw / Hermes-class harnesses Adoption: 82 | Personal multi-tool agent OS direction |
| 20 | Smolagents Adoption: 81 | Minimal Hugging Face agent runtime |

Coding Agents & IDEs
Surfaces developers use to ship daily · top 20 · as_of 2026-07-22
- Official docs Claude Code DocsOfficial Claude Code documentation
- Trusted site OpenAI Codex (GitHub)Official Codex repo entry (marketing pages often bot-403)
- Official docs Cursor DocsCursor IDE agent docs
- Trusted site Aider GitHubOpen-source CLI pair-programming agent
| # | Name | Why on this map |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Code Ship frequency: 100 | Deep-repo agent with hooks/skills; strong multi-file reasoning |
| 2 | Codex CLI / VS Code agent Ship frequency: 99 | Terminal-first autonomous coding; top Terminal-Bench surface |
| 3 | Cursor Ship frequency: 98 | Mainstream AI IDE default; highest daily multi-file edit polish |
| 4 | GitHub Copilot Workspace / agent Ship frequency: 97 | PR-native agent with CI; common enterprise procurement default |
| 5 | Windsurf / Devin Desktop Ship frequency: 96 | Cognition-consolidated agent IDE surface; async ticket-style work |
| 6 | Grok Build Ship frequency: 95 | xAI coding CLI/build surface; fastest-rising newcomer |
| 7 | OpenCode Ship frequency: 94 | Open multi-provider coding agent; leading MIT/star open entry |
| 8 | Gemini CLI Ship frequency: 93 | Google terminal coding agent; free frontier-model entry |
| 9 | Aider Ship frequency: 92 | Pure CLI + git workflow camp |
| 10 | Continue.dev Ship frequency: 91 | Open IDE extension hub |
| 11 | Zed AI Ship frequency: 90 | Performance-first editor AI |
| 12 | JetBrains AI Assistant Ship frequency: 89 | Embedded in JetBrains ecosystem |
| 13 | Amazon Q Developer Ship frequency: 88 | AWS-centric code agent |
| 14 | Cline / Roo Code Ship frequency: 87 | Open VS Code agent fork family |
| 15 | Replit Agent Ship frequency: 86 | Cloud IDE full-stack agent |
| 16 | v0 / Lovable class Ship frequency: 85 | UI generation to runnable frontends |
| 17 | Bolt / StackBlitz agent Ship frequency: 84 | In-browser full-stack generation |
| 18 | Devin-class autonomous eng agents Ship frequency: 83 | Highly autonomous async eng-agent category |
| 19 | SWE-agent patterns Ship frequency: 82 | Research-to-prod coding loop patterns |
| 20 | Sourcegraph Cody Ship frequency: 81 | Code-graph-aware assistant |

RAG, Memory & Knowledge
Retrieval and cross-session memory components · top 20 · as_of 2026-07-22
- Official docs LlamaIndex DocsData/index-centric RAG framework
- Official docs LangChain Retrieval DocsRetrieval-augmented concepts and components
- Public API Pinecone API ReferenceVector DB public REST API
- Public API Weaviate REST APIOpen-source vector DB REST API
| # | Name | Why on this map |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LlamaIndex Maturity: 100 | A default data framework for RAG apps |
| 2 | LangChain / LangGraph retrievers Maturity: 99 | Broadest connector and chain retrieval ecosystem |
| 3 | Pinecone Maturity: 98 | Managed vector DB common buy default |
| 4 | Qdrant Maturity: 97 | Open high-performance vector store |
| 5 | Weaviate Maturity: 96 | Hybrid search with modules |
| 6 | pgvector Maturity: 95 | Vectors inside Postgres for existing PG stacks |
| 7 | Chroma Maturity: 94 | Local-first vector store for prototypes |
| 8 | Elasticsearch vector Maturity: 93 | Search+vector hybrid upgrade path |
| 9 | Voyage / Cohere embeddings Maturity: 92 | High-quality embedding APIs |
| 10 | Docling / Unstructured Maturity: 91 | Document parse-to-chunk entry |
| 11 | Firecrawl / web extract Maturity: 90 | Web to clean markdown extraction |
| 12 | GraphRAG patterns Maturity: 89 | Entity-graph retrieval patterns |
| 13 | Mem0 / agent memory libs Maturity: 88 | Cross-session agent memory libraries |
| 14 | Azure AI Search Maturity: 87 | Microsoft enterprise hybrid search |
| 15 | Vertex AI Search Maturity: 86 | GCP enterprise RAG |
| 16 | NotebookLM class Maturity: 85 | Source-grounded notebooks |
| 17 | Obsidian + AI plugins Maturity: 84 | Personal knowledge base + AI |
| 18 | Zep / conversation memory Maturity: 83 | Conversation long-term memory services |
| 19 | Code graphs (Tree-sitter / codegraph) Maturity: 82 | Structural code retrieval vs pure vectors |
| 20 | Haystack pipelines Maturity: 81 | Production NLP/RAG pipelines |

Image Generation (current)
Main still-image paths in 2026 · top 20 · as_of 2026-07-22
- Official docs OpenAI Images APIOfficial OpenAI Python SDK (images API; marketing/docs often bot-403)
- Public API Stability AI Platform APIStable Diffusion family public API
- Trusted site Black Forest Labs / FLUXFLUX official product site
- Public API Replicate · text-to-imageMachine-readable image models + API (Midjourney main site often bot-403)
| # | Name | Why on this map |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ChatGPT Images 2.0 / GPT Image 2 Ship usability: 100 | Delivery-oriented high-res controllable images; stronger readable text |
| 2 | Grok / Imagine Ship usability: 99 | xAI image gen; usable style-reference edits |
| 3 | Flux family Ship usability: 98 | Open-weight photoreal main line |
| 4 | Midjourney v7 class Ship usability: 97 | Aesthetic still default |
| 5 | Ideogram Ship usability: 96 | Strong text-in-image layout |
| 6 | Imagen 3/4 Ship usability: 95 | Google product image stack |
| 7 | Stable Diffusion 3.x Ship usability: 94 | Open ecosystem baseline |
| 8 | Adobe Firefly Ship usability: 93 | Brand-safe commercial licensing narrative |
| 9 | Recraft Ship usability: 92 | Design-system / vector-ish outputs |
| 10 | Leonardo Ship usability: 91 | Game/asset-oriented generation |
| 11 | ControlNet stacks Ship usability: 90 | Pose/depth/edge control |
| 12 | IP-Adapter / identity ref Ship usability: 89 | Character identity consistency |
| 13 | Kolors / CN diffusion Ship usability: 88 | Chinese aesthetic open routes |
| 14 | Playground class Ship usability: 87 | Design-friendly UI generation |
| 15 | Civitai community models Ship usability: 86 | Community fine-tune marketplace |
| 16 | SDXL Lightning / turbo Ship usability: 85 | Fast preview generation |
| 17 | Topaz / RealESRGAN upscalers Ship usability: 84 | Post-gen upscale finish |
| 18 | Background removal models Ship usability: 83 | E-commerce cutout necessity |
| 19 | Inpaint/outpaint toolchains Ship usability: 82 | Local repaint workflows |
| 20 | DALL·E lineage integrations Ship usability: 81 | Legacy integrations still inside many products |

Video & Motion
T2V/I2V and talking-head paths · top 20 · as_of 2026-07-22
- Public API Runway APIRunway developer API docs
- Public API Luma Dream Machine APILuma video generation API
- Trusted site Kling AIKling product entry (public product surface)
- Trusted site OpenAI GitHub orgOpenAI public org repos (Sora/marketing pages often bot-403)
| # | Name | Why on this map |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Google Veo 3.x Usable path: 100 | Google cinematic T2V/I2V main line; unified multimodal stack |
| 2 | Sora class Usable path: 99 | High-end narrative T2V category (product entry still shifting) |
| 3 | Kling Usable path: 98 | Common CN-market video generation |
| 4 | Runway Gen-3/4 Usable path: 97 | Creator video tool stack |
| 5 | Luma Dream Machine Usable path: 96 | Accessible cinematic T2V |
| 6 | Pika Usable path: 95 | Social short-form oriented |
| 7 | Hailuo / MiniMax video Usable path: 94 | CN product video models |
| 8 | Seedance / ByteDance video Usable path: 93 | ByteDance motion/video pipelines |
| 9 | Vidu class Usable path: 92 | Multi-subject video |
| 10 | HeyGen Usable path: 91 | Avatar presenter videos |
| 11 | Synthesia Usable path: 90 | Enterprise training avatars |
| 12 | ElevenLabs + lipsync stacks Usable path: 89 | Voice-driven lipsync stacks |
| 13 | Hedra / talking-head Usable path: 88 | Portrait talking-head video |
| 14 | CapCut AI suite Usable path: 87 | Mass-market edit + gen |
| 15 | Descript Usable path: 86 | Transcript-first video edit |
| 16 | Remotion + AI assets Usable path: 85 | Code-driven video |
| 17 | HyperFrames / card video Usable path: 84 | Card short-video templates |
| 18 | Adobe Firefly Video Usable path: 83 | Adobe brand-safe motion |
| 19 | Viggle / character motion Usable path: 82 | Character motion transfer |
| 20 | Open-Sora / CogVideo class Usable path: 81 | Open video research routes |

Voice & Audio
TTS / STT / music / voice agents · top 20 · as_of 2026-07-22
- Trusted site OpenAI Whisper (GitHub)Official Whisper repo; Audio API docs often bot-403
- Public API ElevenLabs APISpeech synthesis/cloning public API
- Public API Deepgram APIRealtime speech recognition API
- Trusted site CartesiaLow-latency TTS product entry
| # | Name | Why on this map |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ElevenLabs Prod adoption: 100 | High-quality TTS/clone default |
| 2 | OpenAI Realtime / TTS Prod adoption: 99 | Low-latency voice-agent path |
| 3 | Whisper family Prod adoption: 98 | Open STT baseline |
| 4 | Deepgram Prod adoption: 97 | Production STT APIs |
| 5 | AssemblyAI Prod adoption: 96 | STT plus speech understanding |
| 6 | Cartesia Prod adoption: 95 | Realtime voice generation |
| 7 | Azure Speech Prod adoption: 94 | Enterprise STT/TTS |
| 8 | Google Cloud Speech Prod adoption: 93 | GCP speech stack |
| 9 | Amazon Polly / Transcribe Prod adoption: 92 | AWS default speech |
| 10 | Suno Prod adoption: 91 | Mass-market music generation |
| 11 | Udio Prod adoption: 90 | Music generation competitor |
| 12 | Play.ht / PlayAI Prod adoption: 89 | Voice product stack |
| 13 | Resemble AI Prod adoption: 88 | Enterprise voice clone |
| 14 | Descript Studio Sound Prod adoption: 87 | Podcast denoise |
| 15 | FunASR / SenseVoice Prod adoption: 86 | Chinese open STT |
| 16 | Fish Audio / CN TTS Prod adoption: 85 | Chinese natural TTS |
| 17 | Coqui / open TTS Prod adoption: 84 | Open voice models |
| 18 | WebRTC realtime voice bots Prod adoption: 83 | Telephony-grade voice bots |
| 19 | Podcast AI digests Prod adoption: 82 | Audio-to-summary pipelines |
| 20 | Audo / cleanup tools Prod adoption: 81 | Audio cleanup tools |

Eval, Observability & Guardrails
Measure, trace, constrain · top 20 · as_of 2026-07-22
- Official docs LangSmith Docs / APIAgent/LLM tracing and evaluation
- Official docs Arize PhoenixOpen-source LLM observability
- Public API Braintrust APIEval/logging public API
- Leaderboard HELM (Stanford CRFM)Academic multi-scenario evaluation
| # | Name | Why on this map |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LangSmith Ops readiness: 100 | LangChain-family tracing and evals |
| 2 | Langfuse Ops readiness: 99 | Open LLM observability |
| 3 | Phoenix / Arize Ops readiness: 98 | ML+LLM monitoring |
| 4 | Braintrust Ops readiness: 97 | Eval and logging platform |
| 5 | Promptfoo Ops readiness: 96 | Prompt/regression testing |
| 6 | DeepEval Ops readiness: 95 | Python eval framework |
| 7 | RAGAS Ops readiness: 94 | RAG quality metrics |
| 8 | Helicone Ops readiness: 93 | Gateway-layer observability |
| 9 | Weights & Biases Weave Ops readiness: 92 | Experiment + LLM traces |
| 10 | OpenTelemetry GenAI Ops readiness: 91 | Standardized tracing |
| 11 | Guardrails AI Ops readiness: 90 | Output validators |
| 12 | NeMo Guardrails Ops readiness: 89 | Dialog policy rails |
| 13 | Llama Guard (Meta) Ops readiness: 88 | Safety classifier models |
| 14 | Presidio / PII redaction Ops readiness: 87 | Privacy redaction |
| 15 | LiteLLM Ops readiness: 86 | Unified model proxy |
| 16 | Portkey Ops readiness: 85 | Gateway and fallback routing |
| 17 | Humanloop Ops readiness: 84 | Prompt management |
| 18 | Sentry Ops readiness: 83 | App+error observability (incl. AI integrations) |
| 19 | Garak (NVIDIA) Ops readiness: 82 | LLM adversarial/red-team testing |
| 20 | OpenAI Evals Ops readiness: 81 | Custom task eval patterns |

Inference Infrastructure
Where models actually run · top 20 · as_of 2026-07-22
- Official docs vLLM DocsHigh-throughput open inference engine
- Official docs Hugging Face TGIText Generation Inference docs
- Public API Together AI Models APIHosted inference model catalog API
- Public API Fireworks AI APIHosted inference public API
| # | Name | Why on this map |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | vLLM Deploy reality: 100 | Default open high-throughput serving |
| 2 | TensorRT-LLM Deploy reality: 99 | NVIDIA-optimized inference |
| 3 | Ollama Deploy reality: 98 | Local model UX default |
| 4 | llama.cpp / GGUF Deploy reality: 97 | CPU/GPU local quantization |
| 5 | MLX Deploy reality: 96 | Apple Silicon inference |
| 6 | Fireworks AI Deploy reality: 95 | Fast hosted open models |
| 7 | Together AI Deploy reality: 94 | Open-model cloud |
| 8 | Groq Deploy reality: 93 | Ultra-low-latency LPU inference |
| 9 | AWS Bedrock Deploy reality: 92 | Enterprise multi-model hosted API |
| 10 | Azure OpenAI / AI Foundry Deploy reality: 91 | Microsoft enterprise model platform |
| 11 | Vertex AI Deploy reality: 90 | GCP model platform |
| 12 | Hugging Face TGI / Inference Deploy reality: 89 | HF serving path |
| 13 | Modal Deploy reality: 88 | Serverless GPU jobs |
| 14 | Replicate Deploy reality: 87 | Model-as-API marketplace |
| 15 | Cloudflare Workers AI Deploy reality: 86 | Edge inference |
| 16 | NVIDIA NIM Deploy reality: 85 | Packaged enterprise inference microservices |
| 17 | SGLang Deploy reality: 84 | Fast open serving |
| 18 | Kubernetes Deploy reality: 83 | DIY production orchestration baseline |
| 19 | SkyPilot Deploy reality: 82 | Multi-cloud GPU cluster orchestration |
| 20 | Anyscale / Ray Deploy reality: 81 | Distributed train and serving |

AI Product & Growth Shapes
Shapes winning budget/distribution in 2026 · top 20 · as_of 2026-07-22
- Public report State of AI ReportAnnual industry survey (trend cross-check)
- Public report a16z Generative AIa16z AI topic hub (old /generative-ai 404)
- Trusted site Product Hunt AIPublic launch signals for new products
- Trusted site GitHub TrendingPublic open-source heat list (not this map's ranks)
| # | Name | Why on this map |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agentic coding workspaces Budget pull: 100 | Highest concentration of eng budgets |
| 2 | Vertical agents (legal/tax/health) Budget pull: 99 | Domain trust + workflow binding |
| 3 | Personal agent OS / second brain Budget pull: 98 | Daily habit and memory compounding |
| 4 | AI ads & UGC factories Budget pull: 97 | Performance-ad creative factories |
| 5 | AI landing-page generators Budget pull: 96 | Marketing landing-page throughput |
| 6 | Support copilots with tools Budget pull: 95 | Support ROI clear and billable |
| 7 | Meeting → action systems Budget pull: 94 | Calendar-native agents |
| 8 | Sales research agents Budget pull: 93 | Outbound/lead intelligence |
| 9 | Internal knowledge chat Budget pull: 92 | Default enterprise RAG delivery |
| 10 | Multimodal design suites Budget pull: 91 | Design-to-ship pipelines |
| 11 | Voice-first mobile agents Budget pull: 90 | Hands-free mobile scenarios |
| 12 | Computer-use automation Budget pull: 89 | Legacy GUI RPA upgrade |
| 13 | Eval-as-product dashboards Budget pull: 88 | Buyer trust layer |
| 14 | Open-weight private clouds Budget pull: 87 | Data-sovereignty procurement |
| 15 | AI education / cohort tools Budget pull: 86 | Creator/training monetization |
| 16 | Synthetic data platforms Budget pull: 85 | Training-flywheel infrastructure |
| 17 | Compliance-aware AI (audit trails) Budget pull: 84 | Regulated-industry entry ticket |
| 18 | Hardware + AI gadgets Budget pull: 83 | Edge-form-factor products |
| 19 | Skills / MCP tool marketplaces Budget pull: 82 | Ecosystem lock-in and distribution |
| 20 | Outcome-priced AI services Budget pull: 81 | Outcome pricing beyond seats |

AI Leaders Map (2026)
People who set the agenda — not follower vanity ranks · top 20 · as_of 2026-07-22
- Trusted site Google DeepMindOfficial DeepMind org and research entry
- Official docs Anthropic ResearchAnthropic public research and leadership context
- Trusted site OpenAI GitHub orgOpenAI public org repos (main research pages often bot-403)
- Trusted site meta-llama GitHubMeta Llama public org repos (ai.meta.com 400 for some clients)
- Trusted site X · @demishassabisDeepMind CEO public X
- Trusted site X · @samaOpenAI CEO public X
| # | Name | Why on this map |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind) Agenda weight: 100 | Science+product dual narrative; Alpha lineage + Gemini control plane |
| 2 | Dario Amodei (Anthropic) Agenda weight: 99 | Safety/interpretability commercial flagship; Claude line |
| 3 | Sam Altman (OpenAI) Agenda weight: 98 | Platform distribution + capital narrative center; ChatGPT default |
| 4 | Yann LeCun (Meta FAIR / AMI Labs) Agenda weight: 97 | Open-source + world-model public debate bridge academia↔industry |
| 5 | Jensen Huang (NVIDIA) Agenda weight: 96 | De-facto tax rate of the compute supply chain |
| 6 | Ilya Sutskever (SSI) Agenda weight: 95 | Scaling+alignment legacy and next-gen SSI narrative |
| 7 | Mustafa Suleyman (Microsoft AI) Agenda weight: 94 | Consumer+enterprise dual stack; Copilot execution authority |
| 8 | Fei-Fei Li Agenda weight: 93 | Human-centered AI + vision foundations public voice |
| 9 | Geoffrey Hinton Agenda weight: 92 | Godfather-layer public risk voice; high policy weight |
| 10 | Yoshua Bengio Agenda weight: 91 | Safety/governance academic agenda-setting |
| 11 | Andrej Karpathy Agenda weight: 90 | Engineering education + product intuition mass amplifier |
| 12 | Satya Nadella (Microsoft) Agenda weight: 89 | CEO who ships frontier models into enterprise distribution |
| 13 | Mark Zuckerberg (Meta) Agenda weight: 88 | Open-weight + social distribution free-tier strategy |
| 14 | Elon Musk (xAI) Agenda weight: 87 | Realtime X data + Grok product alternate narrative center |
| 15 | Noam Shazeer Agenda weight: 86 | Transformer co-author → consumer-agent product path |
| 16 | Jared Kaplan (Anthropic) Agenda weight: 85 | Scaling-laws→alignment productization research leadership |
| 17 | Jim Fan (NVIDIA) Agenda weight: 84 | Public flagship for embodied/game agents research |
| 18 | Percy Liang (Stanford CRFM) Agenda weight: 83 | HELM-class measurable-trust eval infrastructure |
| 19 | Andrew Ng Agenda weight: 82 | Education + applied-AI global distribution layer |
| 20 | Oriol Vinyals (DeepMind) Agenda weight: 81 | Sequence models + multi-agent research leadership |

Top Labs / Frontier Orgs
Who ships models, papers, stacks — with official X · top 20 · as_of 2026-07-22
- Trusted site Google DeepMindTop-lab official entry
- Trusted site OpenAI (GitHub org)OpenAI public org repos (main site often bot-403)
- Trusted site AnthropicAnthropic org entry
- Trusted site meta-llama GitHubLlama weights/models public org repos
- Trusted site facebookresearch GitHubMeta FAIR open-source org repos
- Trusted site Microsoft Research AIMicrosoft Research AI public surface
| # | Name | Why on this map |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Google DeepMind System influence: 100 | Science breakthrough + Gemini; Search/Cloud distribution |
| 2 | OpenAI System influence: 99 | ChatGPT default entry; API + agent platform center |
| 3 | Anthropic System influence: 98 | Claude long-horizon/safety stack; enterprise coding narrative |
| 4 | Meta FAIR / Superintelligence Labs System influence: 97 | Llama open-weight default base; research→community flywheel |
| 5 | Microsoft Research / Microsoft AI System influence: 96 | Copilot distribution + Azure hosting; enterprise buy path |
| 6 | xAI System influence: 95 | Grok + X realtime surface; Imagine multimodal |
| 7 | NVIDIA Research / AI System influence: 94 | Compute + NIM inference; supply choke point |
| 8 | Amazon Science / AWS AI System influence: 93 | Bedrock multi-model shelf; default-visible in AWS accounts |
| 9 | Mistral AI System influence: 92 | EU-compliance open/API dual track |
| 10 | DeepSeek System influence: 91 | Open reasoning cost shock; private-deploy reference |
| 11 | Alibaba Qwen / Tongyi System influence: 90 | Bilingual + tool-use ecosystem; open and cloud |
| 12 | Moonshot / Kimi System influence: 89 | Strong Chinese long-context product |
| 13 | Cohere System influence: 88 | Enterprise RAG/retrieval + Command line |
| 14 | Hugging Face System influence: 87 | Model/dataset/Spaces distribution hub |
| 15 | Allen Institute for AI (AI2) System influence: 86 | Open science path incl. OLMo-class models |
| 16 | Stanford CRFM System influence: 85 | Eval×policy academic hub (HELM) |
| 17 | Stability AI System influence: 84 | Image-gen open-weight and API product node |
| 18 | Black Forest Labs (FLUX) System influence: 83 | FLUX image-gen research/product line |
| 19 | Perplexity System influence: 82 | Retrieval-native chat product; active public eng narrative |
| 20 | Runway Research System influence: 81 | Video-gen research+product; Gen-series public reference |

Landmark Papers / Idea Anchors
Each row links the canonical paper — not weekly citation heat · top 20 · as_of 2026-07-22
- Trusted site arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CLPrimary paper distribution; verify by arXiv id
- Public report Attention Is All You Need (arXiv:1706.03762)Canonical Transformer paper anchor
- Leaderboard Papers with CodePaper↔code↔leaderboard cross-index
- Trusted site Semantic ScholarPublic citation and author-graph search
| # | Name | Why on this map |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Attention Is All You Need (Vaswani et al.) Idea legacy: 100 | Origin of the default Transformer architecture |
| 2 | Scaling Laws / Kaplan et al. Idea legacy: 99 | Start of predictable compute-data-params narrative |
| 3 | GPT-3 / few-shot learners Idea legacy: 98 | Public proof that large pretrain yields general ability |
| 4 | InstructGPT / RLHF Idea legacy: 97 | Productization path aligning to human preference |
| 5 | Constitutional AI (Anthropic) Idea legacy: 96 | Discussable blueprint for principle-based alignment |
| 6 | Chain-of-Thought prompting Idea legacy: 95 | Made reasoning an explicit controllable interface |
| 7 | ReAct (reason + act) Idea legacy: 94 | Default mental model for tool-using agents |
| 8 | LLaMA (Meta) Idea legacy: 93 | Turn where open weights became a default base |
| 9 | Chinchilla compute-optimal Idea legacy: 92 | Efficiency correction: data vs parameters |
| 10 | Diffusion / DDPM family Idea legacy: 91 | Image-gen main path shift GAN→diffusion |
| 11 | CLIP (OpenAI) Idea legacy: 90 | Vision-language shared representation into products |
| 12 | AlphaFold (DeepMind) Idea legacy: 89 | Undeniable science-AI achievement sample |
| 13 | FlashAttention Idea legacy: 88 | Feasibility jump for long-context train/serve |
| 14 | Mixture-of-Experts / Switch Transformers Idea legacy: 87 | Sparse activation scaling became mainstream |
| 15 | DPO (Direct Preference Optimization) Idea legacy: 86 | Widely adopted simplified alignment training path |
| 16 | Toolformer Idea legacy: 85 | Early clear demo of models learning to call APIs |
| 17 | Segment Anything (Meta) Idea legacy: 84 | Vision foundation model train-once multi-downstream template |
| 18 | Whisper (OpenAI) Idea legacy: 83 | One default open baseline for speech recognition |
| 19 | BERT (Devlin et al.) Idea legacy: 82 | Prior-gen turn: bidirectional pretrain as NLP industrial default |
| 20 | LoRA / PEFT family Idea legacy: 81 | Cheap adapters made private fine-tune a default move |

Benchmarks Buyers Actually Cite
Each row links the official board/repo · top 20 · as_of 2026-07-22
- Leaderboard LM Arena / Chatbot ArenaPublic Text/Code/Agent arena Elo boards
- Leaderboard SWE-benchPublic software-engineering task board
- Leaderboard HELM (Stanford CRFM)Academic multi-scenario evaluation
- Leaderboard Artificial AnalysisQuality×speed×price comparison
- Leaderboard MLPerfIndustry hardware/inference throughput yardstick
| # | Name | Why on this map |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LM Arena / Chatbot Arena Elo Decision citation rate: 100 | Public arena perceived quality; often cited in sales (arena.ai) |
| 2 | SWE-bench / SWE-bench Verified Decision citation rate: 99 | Real software tasks; coding-agent purchase yardstick |
| 3 | HumanEval Decision citation rate: 98 | Classic code-gen yardstick (OpenAI) |
| 4 | LiveCodeBench Decision citation rate: 97 | Continuously updated code-gen board |
| 5 | MMLU Decision citation rate: 96 | Multi-subject knowledge default (watch saturation) |
| 6 | GPQA Decision citation rate: 95 | Hard science QA; real-reasoning cross-check |
| 7 | MATH dataset Decision citation rate: 94 | Math-reasoning strength cross-check |
| 8 | HELM (Stanford CRFM) Decision citation rate: 93 | Multi-scenario reproducible academic eval framework |
| 9 | Artificial Analysis Decision citation rate: 92 | Quality×speed×price three-axis purchase view |
| 10 | Open LLM Leaderboard (HF) Decision citation rate: 91 | Open-weight public comparison entry |
| 11 | τ-bench (tool-agent) Decision citation rate: 90 | Tool-use reliability; critical for agent products |
| 12 | WebArena Decision citation rate: 89 | Browser-agent task completion |
| 13 | MMMU benchmark Decision citation rate: 88 | Multimodal understanding purchase view |
| 14 | VBench Decision citation rate: 87 | Video-gen perception and consistency |
| 15 | Common Voice (ASR data) Decision citation rate: 86 | Public ASR corpus/entry point |
| 16 | RAGAS Decision citation rate: 85 | RAG faithfulness and retrieval quality |
| 17 | AgentBoard Decision citation rate: 84 | Multi-agent task composite board |
| 18 | BIG-bench Decision citation rate: 83 | Prior-gen composite ability (legacy yardstick) |
| 19 | MLPerf Inference Decision citation rate: 82 | Hardware/serving throughput industry yardstick |
| 20 | LMSYS Chatbot Arena paper Decision citation rate: 81 | Arena methodology paper (how to read Elo) |

Product Hunt · AI Product Index
AI products often named on launch/distribution surfaces — each row links home · top 20 · as_of 2026-07-22
- Trusted site Product Hunt · Artificial IntelligenceMaster index of AI product launches
- Trusted site Product Hunt · AI homepageLaunch-surface home
- Trusted site Product Hunt on XOfficial Product Hunt X
- Public report Y Combinator Library (launch context)Launch/growth narrative cross-reads
| # | Name | Why on this map |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ChatGPT Distribution heat: 100 | Default chat entry; launch-narrative center |
| 2 | Claude Distribution heat: 99 | Long-form/coding chat product surface |
| 3 | Cursor Distribution heat: 98 | AI IDE path from launch to mainstream |
| 4 | Perplexity Distribution heat: 97 | Retrieval-native answer engine; strong distribution narrative |
| 5 | v0 (Vercel) Distribution heat: 96 | UI-gen→deployable launch product template |
| 6 | Lovable Distribution heat: 95 | NL→full-stack app PH-hot product shape |
| 7 | Bolt.new Distribution heat: 94 | In-browser one-shot full-stack prototypes |
| 8 | Gamma Distribution heat: 93 | AI decks/docs launch tool |
| 9 | Notion AI Distribution heat: 92 | Workspace-native writing/Q&A |
| 10 | Raycast AI Distribution heat: 91 | Launcher-native AI command layer |
| 11 | Linear Distribution heat: 90 | Eng project management + AI assist |
| 12 | ElevenLabs Distribution heat: 89 | Voice gen/clone product surface |
| 13 | Suno Distribution heat: 88 | Mass-market music-gen launch breakout shape |
| 14 | Runway Distribution heat: 87 | Creator video-gen tool stack |
| 15 | Ideogram Distribution heat: 86 | Text-in-image friendly image product |
| 16 | Replicate Distribution heat: 85 | Model-as-API marketplace; dev distribution |
| 17 | Hugging Face Distribution heat: 84 | Model/Spaces community distribution hub |
| 18 | Descript Distribution heat: 83 | Transcript-first A/V product |
| 19 | Midjourney Distribution heat: 82 | Aesthetic still-gen mass entry (main site often bot-walled) |
| 20 | Product Hunt AI topic Distribution heat: 81 | Master index of AI launches (topic page) |

Apple App Store · AI App Index
High-frequency iOS AI consumer entries — each row links App Store (editorial map, not live chart) · top 20 · as_of 2026-07-22
- Leaderboard App Store · iPhone ChartsOfficial iPhone charts entry (cross-check)
- Trusted site App Store · ProductivityProductivity category (AI assistants frequent)
- Official docs Apple Developer · App StoreApp Store product and distribution rules
- Public report Sensor Tower (industry charts)Third-party store intel cross-check (account may be required)
| # | Name | Why on this map |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ChatGPT Store visibility: 100 | Default consumer chat entry |
| 2 | Claude by Anthropic Store visibility: 99 | Long-form/coding assistant on iOS |
| 3 | Google Gemini Store visibility: 98 | Google multimodal assistant entry |
| 4 | Microsoft Copilot Store visibility: 97 | Microsoft assistant + OS integration narrative |
| 5 | Grok Store visibility: 96 | xAI assistant; X-ecosystem distribution |
| 6 | Perplexity Store visibility: 95 | Retrieval-native Q&A mobile entry |
| 7 | Character.AI Store visibility: 94 | Character-chat consumer breakout shape |
| 8 | PhotoRoom AI Photo Editor Store visibility: 93 | E-commerce/cutout AI photo edit |
| 9 | Remini – AI Photo Enhancer Store visibility: 92 | Photo upscale/enhance breakout |
| 10 | Lensa: AI Photo & Video Editor Store visibility: 91 | Portrait stylization AI editor |
| 11 | FaceApp: Face Editor Store visibility: 90 | Face-transform AI filters |
| 12 | CapCut – Video Editor Store visibility: 89 | Short-video edit + AI features |
| 13 | Canva: AI Photo & Video Editor Store visibility: 88 | Design templates + generative features |
| 14 | Grammarly Keyboard Store visibility: 87 | Writing-assistant keyboard layer |
| 15 | Duolingo Store visibility: 86 | Language learning + AI conversation |
| 16 | Speak: Language Learning Store visibility: 85 | Speaking-practice AI coach |
| 17 | Notion Store visibility: 84 | Notes/wiki + Notion AI |
| 18 | starryai – AI Art Generator Store visibility: 83 | Text-to-image consumer entry |
| 19 | Wondershare Wonder AI Art Store visibility: 82 | AI art generation consumer tool |
| 20 | Microsoft 365 (Copilot surface) Store visibility: 81 | Office suite Copilot distribution surface |

Google Play · AI App Index
High-frequency Android AI entries — each row links Play details (editorial map, not live chart) · top 20 · as_of 2026-07-22
- Leaderboard Google Play · Top chartsOfficial top charts entry (cross-check)
- Trusted site Google Play · ProductivityProductivity category (AI assistants frequent)
- Official docs Google Play Console helpPlay distribution and listing docs
- Public report Sensor Tower (industry charts)Third-party store intel cross-check (account may be required)
| # | Name | Why on this map |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ChatGPT Store visibility: 100 | Default consumer chat entry |
| 2 | Claude by Anthropic Store visibility: 99 | Long-form/coding assistant on Android |
| 3 | Google Gemini Store visibility: 98 | Google multimodal assistant entry |
| 4 | Microsoft Copilot Store visibility: 97 | Microsoft assistant Android entry |
| 5 | Grok Store visibility: 96 | xAI assistant; X-ecosystem distribution |
| 6 | Perplexity Store visibility: 95 | Retrieval-native Q&A mobile entry |
| 7 | Character.AI Store visibility: 94 | Character-chat consumer breakout shape |
| 8 | PhotoRoom Store visibility: 93 | E-commerce/cutout AI photo edit |
| 9 | Remini Store visibility: 92 | Photo upscale/enhance breakout |
| 10 | Lensa Store visibility: 91 | Portrait stylization AI editor |
| 11 | FaceApp Store visibility: 90 | Face-transform AI filters |
| 12 | CapCut Store visibility: 89 | Short-video edit + AI features |
| 13 | Canva Store visibility: 88 | Design templates + generative features |
| 14 | Grammarly Keyboard Store visibility: 87 | Writing-assistant keyboard layer |
| 15 | Duolingo Store visibility: 86 | Language learning + AI conversation |
| 16 | Notion Store visibility: 85 | Notes/wiki + Notion AI |
| 17 | Microsoft 365 (Office) Store visibility: 84 | Office suite Copilot distribution surface |
| 18 | Background Eraser / remove.bg class Store visibility: 83 | Background-removal AI tools |
| 19 | starryai (Play search) Store visibility: 82 | Text-to-image consumer entry (search index) |
| 20 | Speak-class language AI (Play search) Store visibility: 81 | Speaking AI coach category index |

X Hot Topics · AI
High-frequency AI agenda topics on X — each row links search/hashtag (editorial index, not official live Trends) · top 20 · as_of 2026-07-22
- Leaderboard X ExploreX Explore entry (live trends often login-gated; this board is an editorial topic index)
- Trusted site X Advanced SearchAdvanced search for reproducible topic queries
- Official docs X Developer PlatformOfficial API docs (trends/search need access)
- Trusted site X AI search (sample query)Sample live AI keyword search
| # | Name | Why on this map |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | AI Agents Agenda heat: 100 | Autonomous agents / tool-use as main narrative |
| 2 | Claude / Anthropic Agenda heat: 99 | Long-form, coding, and safety narrative center |
| 3 | ChatGPT / OpenAI Agenda heat: 98 | Default chat entry and release-cadence talk |
| 4 | Grok / xAI Agenda heat: 97 | X-native assistant and model-release talk |
| 5 | Gemini / Google AI Agenda heat: 96 | Multimodal and search-integration agenda |
| 6 | DeepSeek Agenda heat: 95 | Open-weight / efficient-training contrast narrative |
| 7 | Open-weight LLMs Agenda heat: 94 | Qwen / Kimi / Mistral open-weight wave |
| 8 | MCP (Model Context Protocol) Agenda heat: 93 | Tool-interop standard as infrastructure talk |
| 9 | Cursor / AI IDE Agenda heat: 92 | In-editor coding-agent product surface |
| 10 | AI Video Generation Agenda heat: 91 | Sora / Kling / Seedance-class video gen |
| 11 | Image Gen / Flux Agenda heat: 90 | T2I aesthetics and local-model discussion |
| 12 | Voice AI / Realtime Agenda heat: 89 | Realtime voice assistants and call automation |
| 13 | AI Memory / Personalization Agenda heat: 88 | Memory and personalization as product competition |
| 14 | Local / On-device AI Agenda heat: 87 | On-device and local inference feasibility |
| 15 | AI Jobs / Automation Agenda heat: 86 | Jobs and knowledge-labor automation agenda |
| 16 | AI Safety (near-term) Agenda heat: 85 | Near-term safety / bio / cyber risk talk |
| 17 | Evals / Arena Agenda heat: 84 | Public arena and purchase-eval yardsticks |
| 18 | RAG / Knowledge Agenda heat: 83 | RAG and enterprise knowledge bases |
| 19 | AI Regulation Agenda heat: 82 | Policy, copyright, and deployment compliance |
| 20 | Multimodal / World Models Agenda heat: 81 | Multimodal and world-model frontier narrative |

Reddit · AI Hot Topics
High-frequency AI community topics — each row links subreddit/hot search (editorial index, not live sitewide chart) · top 20 · as_of 2026-07-22
- Leaderboard r/MachineLearning hotML research community hot feed
- Leaderboard r/LocalLLaMA hotLocal/open-weight LLM practice hot feed
- Trusted site Reddit search · AISitewide AI hot search
- Official docs Reddit API wiki (archive)Public API wiki archive (programmatic charts need compliance; reddit.com/dev often bot-blocked)
| # | Name | Why on this map |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | r/MachineLearning · hot Community heat: 100 | Papers, methods, and review-culture main community |
| 2 | r/LocalLLaMA · hot Community heat: 99 | Local models / quant / hardware practice |
| 3 | r/OpenAI · hot Community heat: 98 | ChatGPT/API product and policy talk |
| 4 | r/ClaudeAI · hot Community heat: 97 | Claude product use and comparisons |
| 5 | r/ChatGPT · hot Community heat: 96 | Mass-market chat product experience feedback |
| 6 | r/singularity · hot Community heat: 95 | Long-run capability curve and social-impact narrative |
| 7 | r/artificial · hot Community heat: 94 | General AI news and discussion |
| 8 | r/StableDiffusion · hot Community heat: 93 | Open image-gen workflows |
| 9 | r/midjourney · hot Community heat: 92 | Aesthetic stills and prompt culture |
| 10 | r/LangChain · hot Community heat: 91 | Orchestration / tool-chain engineering practice |
| 11 | r/Oobabooga · hot Community heat: 90 | Local WebUI inference stack |
| 12 | r/LocalAI · hot Community heat: 89 | Self-hosted inference and API-compat layers |
| 13 | r/PromptEngineering · hot Community heat: 88 | Prompt and system-instruction craft |
| 14 | r/MLOps · hot Community heat: 87 | Train/deploy/monitor productionization |
| 15 | r/computervision · hot Community heat: 86 | Vision models and applications |
| 16 | Coding agents (Reddit search) Community heat: 85 | Cursor/Copilot/agent coding heat |
| 17 | AI video gen (Reddit search) Community heat: 84 | Video-gen models and tools discussion |
| 18 | RAG / memory (Reddit search) Community heat: 83 | RAG and long-term memory practice |
| 19 | Open-weight models (Reddit search) Community heat: 82 | Open-weight releases and benchmark contrast |
| 20 | AI jobs / automation (Reddit search) Community heat: 81 | Jobs and workflow-replacement talk |

GitHub · AI Repo Index
High-frequency open-source AI repos — each row links GitHub (editorial map, not live Trending ranks) · top 20 · as_of 2026-07-22
- Leaderboard GitHub TrendingOfficial Trending entry (cross-check; not AI-only)
- Leaderboard GitHub topic · artificial-intelligenceAI topic repository aggregation
- Public report OSSInsight · Trending AI ReposThird-party AI repo trend cross-check
- Official docs GitHub REST API docsProgrammatic stars/search entry
| # | Name | Why on this map |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ollama/ollama Ecosystem visibility: 100 | Local model runtime; Docker-like one-shot pull |
| 2 | ggml-org/llama.cpp Ecosystem visibility: 99 | CPU/GPU local quantized inference base |
| 3 | huggingface/transformers Ecosystem visibility: 98 | Default model load/train library |
| 4 | vllm-project/vllm Ecosystem visibility: 97 | High-throughput open serving |
| 5 | sgl-project/sglang Ecosystem visibility: 96 | Fast structured-generation serving |
| 6 | langchain-ai/langchain Ecosystem visibility: 95 | Default app orchestration ecosystem |
| 7 | langchain-ai/langgraph Ecosystem visibility: 94 | Stateful agent-graph runtime |
| 8 | openai/codex Ecosystem visibility: 93 | Terminal/repo coding-agent reference |
| 9 | Aider-AI/aider Ecosystem visibility: 92 | Git-native pair-programming agent |
| 10 | All-Hands-AI/OpenHands Ecosystem visibility: 91 | Open software-engineering agent platform |
| 11 | cline/cline Ecosystem visibility: 90 | IDE-side autonomous coding agent |
| 12 | continuedev/continue Ecosystem visibility: 89 | Open IDE autocomplete/agent extension |
| 13 | modelcontextprotocol/servers Ecosystem visibility: 88 | MCP official/community server collection |
| 14 | comfyanonymous/ComfyUI Ecosystem visibility: 87 | Node-based image/video gen workflows |
| 15 | open-webui/open-webui Ecosystem visibility: 86 | Self-hosted ChatGPT-style frontend |
| 16 | langgenius/dify Ecosystem visibility: 85 | Visual LLM app/workflow platform |
| 17 | n8n-io/n8n Ecosystem visibility: 84 | Workflow automation + AI nodes |
| 18 | deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 Ecosystem visibility: 83 | Open-weight frontier model release anchor |
| 19 | QwenLM/Qwen3 Ecosystem visibility: 82 | Qwen open-model series entry |
| 20 | microsoft/autogen Ecosystem visibility: 81 | Multi-agent conversation framework |

AI Skills · Ecosystem Index
Agent/Claude skills and distribution surfaces — each row links docs/repos (editorial map, not live download ranks) · top 20 · as_of 2026-07-22
- Official docs Anthropic · Agent Skills overviewOfficial Agent Skills concept and format
- Trusted site anthropics/skills (GitHub)Anthropic public skills sample repo
- Leaderboard AgentSkill.sh directoryThird-party skill discovery directory (not an official store)
- Trusted site ClawHubOpenClaw-family skill distribution surface
| # | Name | Why on this map |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anthropic Agent Skills (docs) Distribution visibility: 100 | Official skill format and usage contract |
| 2 | anthropics/skills Distribution visibility: 99 | Official public skill sample repo |
| 3 | vercel-labs/agent-skills Distribution visibility: 98 | Engineering-oriented agent skills pack (Vercel) |
| 4 | awesome-claude-skills Distribution visibility: 97 | Curated Claude skills list |
| 5 | AgentSkill.sh Distribution visibility: 96 | Third-party skill discovery directory |
| 6 | ClawHub Distribution visibility: 95 | OpenClaw-family skill distribution surface |
| 7 | modelcontextprotocol/servers Distribution visibility: 94 | MCP servers as pluggable tool-skill layer |
| 8 | GitHub Skills Distribution visibility: 93 | Official GitHub interactive learning skills |
| 9 | openai/codex Distribution visibility: 92 | Codex runtime + extension/skill surface |
| 10 | Aider-AI/aider Distribution visibility: 91 | In-repo coding-skill habit reference |
| 11 | cline/cline Distribution visibility: 90 | IDE agent skill/tool composition surface |
| 12 | continuedev/continue Distribution visibility: 89 | Open IDE extension skill ecosystem |
| 13 | crewAIInc/crewAI Distribution visibility: 88 | Multi-role agent skill orchestration |
| 14 | microsoft/autogen Distribution visibility: 87 | Conversational multi-agent skill composition |
| 15 | langchain-ai/langgraph Distribution visibility: 86 | Graph state machine for reusable sub-skills |
| 16 | All-Hands-AI/OpenHands Distribution visibility: 85 | Software-engineering agent skill platform |
| 17 | firecrawl/firecrawl Distribution visibility: 84 | Web-crawl skill (agent data ingress) |
| 18 | BerriAI/litellm Distribution visibility: 83 | Multi-model routing skill middleware |
| 19 | langgenius/dify Distribution visibility: 82 | Visual workflow as composable skill canvas |
| 20 | n8n-io/n8n Distribution visibility: 81 | Automation node skill library |
Live secondary evidence (GitHub · not editorial rank)
- ollama/ollama ★ 176621 · forks 17060
- ggml-org/llama.cpp ★ 121254 · forks 20878
- huggingface/transformers ★ 162835 · forks 33973
- vllm-project/vllm ★ 86861 · forks 19703
- sgl-project/sglang ★ 30622 · forks 7323
- langchain-ai/langchain ★ 142318 · forks 23678
- langchain-ai/langgraph ★ 37847 · forks 6346
- openai/codex ★ 100606 · forks 15062
- Aider-AI/aider ★ 47613 · forks 4749
- All-Hands-AI/OpenHands ★ 81682 · forks 10443
- cline/cline ★ 64924 · forks 6967
- continuedev/continue ★ 35026 · forks 5090
snapshot 2026-07-22T11:13:50.347893+00:00 · secondary only