AI Rankings Lab

Frontier base models in active production use · top 20 · as_of 2026-09-05

#	Name	Why on this map
1	Claude Fable 5 / Opus 4.8 class 🔗 Home 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 🔗 Home Map priority: 99	Coding/STEM flagship; default executor in Codex and ChatGPT product surface
3	Gemini 3.1 / 3.x class 🔗 Home Map priority: 98	Long-context science/multimodal surface tightly tied to Google stack
4	Grok 4.5 / xAI 🔗 Home Map priority: 97	Realtime + X-native retrieval; cost-effective cross-check route
5	DeepSeek-V3 / R1 class 🔗 Repo Map priority: 96	Open-weight reasoning cost leader for private/local deploy
6	Qwen3 / Qwen 3.7 class (Alibaba) 🔗 Repo Map priority: 95	Active bilingual + contest-math line; open and cloud dual track
7	Llama 4 class (Meta) 🔗 Repo Map priority: 94	Default open ecosystem base; wide fine-tune and private deploy
8	Mistral Large / Mixtral line 🔗 Home Map priority: 93	EU-positioned open/API line favored in enterprise procurement
9	Kimi K3 / Moonshot long-context 🔗 Home Map priority: 92	Long-context + strong frontend-code arena presence; CN document workflows
10	GLM-5.x / Zhipu 🔗 Home Map priority: 91	CN API + open dual track; frequent open-weight Arena contender
11	Amazon Nova class 🔗 Home Map priority: 90	Bedrock-native tiered models default inside AWS accounts
12	Claude Sonnet 5 / writing tier 🔗 Home Map priority: 89	Writing/instruction-following product default; cost-efficient daily writing tier
13	o-series / deliberative reasoners 🔗 Home Map priority: 88	Explicit multi-step reasoning route for hard second-pass work
14	Claude Haiku / fast tier 🔗 Home Map priority: 87	Low-latency triage tier used as cheap front filter
15	Phi-4 / small strong on-device 🔗 Home Map priority: 86	On-device/edge small models for privacy and offline
16	Cohere Command / Embed / Rerank 🔗 Home Map priority: 85	Still common specialized components for enterprise RAG stacks
17	xAI image/video generation stack 🔗 Home Map priority: 84	Same-vendor multimodal gen stack beside Grok chat
18	OpenAI Images 2.0 / GPT Image 2 🔗 Home Map priority: 83	High-res controllable product-image path used in delivery
19	Local GGUF 70B-class (llama.cpp) 🔗 Repo Map priority: 82	Fully offline private inference baseline for air-gapped envs
20	Command R+ / retrieval-first LLMs 🔗 Home Map priority: 81	Retrieval-first enterprise QA family still on buy lists

Orchestration layers that ship systems · top 20 · as_of 2026-09-05

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

Surfaces developers use to ship daily · top 20 · as_of 2026-09-05

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

Retrieval and cross-session memory components · top 20 · as_of 2026-09-05

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

Main still-image paths in 2026 · top 20 · as_of 2026-09-05

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

T2V/I2V and talking-head paths · top 20 · as_of 2026-09-05

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

TTS / STT / music / voice agents · top 20 · as_of 2026-09-05

#	Name	Why on this map
1	ElevenLabs 🔗 Home Prod adoption: 100	High-quality TTS/clone default
2	OpenAI Realtime / TTS 🔗 Home Prod adoption: 99	Low-latency voice-agent path
3	Whisper family 🔗 Repo Prod adoption: 98	Open STT baseline
4	Deepgram 🔗 Home Prod adoption: 97	Production STT APIs
5	AssemblyAI 🔗 Home Prod adoption: 96	STT plus speech understanding
6	Cartesia 🔗 Home Prod adoption: 95	Realtime voice generation
7	Azure Speech 🔗 Home Prod adoption: 94	Enterprise STT/TTS
8	Google Cloud Speech 🔗 Home Prod adoption: 93	GCP speech stack
9	Amazon Polly / Transcribe 🔗 Home Prod adoption: 92	AWS default speech
10	Suno 🔗 Home Prod adoption: 91	Mass-market music generation
11	Udio 🔗 Home Prod adoption: 90	Music generation competitor
12	Play.ht / PlayAI 🔗 Home Prod adoption: 89	Voice product stack
13	Resemble AI 🔗 Home Prod adoption: 88	Enterprise voice clone
14	Descript Studio Sound 🔗 Home Prod adoption: 87	Podcast denoise
15	FunASR / SenseVoice 🔗 Repo Prod adoption: 86	Chinese open STT
16	Fish Audio / CN TTS 🔗 Home Prod adoption: 85	Chinese natural TTS
17	Coqui / open TTS 🔗 Repo Prod adoption: 84	Open voice models
18	WebRTC realtime voice bots 🔗 Home Prod adoption: 83	Telephony-grade voice bots
19	Podcast AI digests 🔗 Home Prod adoption: 82	Audio-to-summary pipelines
20	Audo / cleanup tools 🔗 Home Prod adoption: 81	Audio cleanup tools

Measure, trace, constrain · top 20 · as_of 2026-09-05

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

Where models actually run · top 20 · as_of 2026-09-05

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

Shapes winning budget/distribution in 2026 · top 20 · as_of 2026-09-05

#	Name	Why on this map
1	Agentic coding workspaces 🔗 Product Budget pull: 100	Highest concentration of eng budgets
2	Vertical agents (legal/tax/health) 🔗 Home Budget pull: 99	Domain trust + workflow binding
3	Personal agent OS / second brain 🔗 Repo Budget pull: 98	Daily habit and memory compounding
4	AI ads & UGC factories 🔗 Product Hunt Budget pull: 97	Performance-ad creative factories
5	AI landing-page generators 🔗 Product Budget pull: 96	Marketing landing-page throughput
6	Support copilots with tools 🔗 Home Budget pull: 95	Support ROI clear and billable
7	Meeting → action systems 🔗 Home Budget pull: 94	Calendar-native agents
8	Sales research agents 🔗 Product Budget pull: 93	Outbound/lead intelligence
9	Internal knowledge chat 🔗 Home Budget pull: 92	Default enterprise RAG delivery
10	Multimodal design suites 🔗 Home Budget pull: 91	Design-to-ship pipelines
11	Voice-first mobile agents 🔗 Home Budget pull: 90	Hands-free mobile scenarios
12	Computer-use automation 🔗 Repo Budget pull: 89	Legacy GUI RPA upgrade
13	Eval-as-product dashboards 🔗 Home Budget pull: 88	Buyer trust layer
14	Open-weight private clouds 🔗 Home Budget pull: 87	Data-sovereignty procurement
15	AI education / cohort tools 🔗 Home Budget pull: 86	Creator/training monetization
16	Synthetic data platforms 🔗 Home Budget pull: 85	Training-flywheel infrastructure
17	Compliance-aware AI (audit trails) 🔗 Home Budget pull: 84	Regulated-industry entry ticket
18	Hardware + AI gadgets 🔗 Home Budget pull: 83	Edge-form-factor products
19	Skills / MCP tool marketplaces 🔗 Repo Budget pull: 82	Ecosystem lock-in and distribution
20	Outcome-priced AI services 🔗 Home Budget pull: 81	Outcome pricing beyond seats

People who set the agenda — not follower vanity ranks · top 20 · as_of 2026-09-05

#	Name	Why on this map
1	Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind) 🔗 Home · @demishassabis Agenda weight: 100	Science+product dual narrative; Alpha lineage + Gemini control plane
2	Dario Amodei (Anthropic) 🔗 Home · @DarioAmodei Agenda weight: 99	Safety/interpretability commercial flagship; Claude line
3	Sam Altman (OpenAI) 🔗 Repo · @sama Agenda weight: 98	Platform distribution + capital narrative center; ChatGPT default
4	Yann LeCun (Meta FAIR / AMI Labs) 🔗 Repo · @ylecun Agenda weight: 97	Open-source + world-model public debate bridge academia↔industry
5	Jensen Huang (NVIDIA) 🔗 Home · @nvidia Agenda weight: 96	De-facto tax rate of the compute supply chain
6	Ilya Sutskever (SSI) 🔗 Home · @ilyasut Agenda weight: 95	Scaling+alignment legacy and next-gen SSI narrative
7	Mustafa Suleyman (Microsoft AI) 🔗 Home · @mustafasuleyman Agenda weight: 94	Consumer+enterprise dual stack; Copilot execution authority
8	Fei-Fei Li 🔗 Home · @drfeifei Agenda weight: 93	Human-centered AI + vision foundations public voice
9	Geoffrey Hinton 🔗 Home · @geoffreyhinton Agenda weight: 92	Godfather-layer public risk voice; high policy weight
10	Yoshua Bengio 🔗 Home · @yoshuabengio Agenda weight: 91	Safety/governance academic agenda-setting
11	Andrej Karpathy 🔗 Home · @karpathy Agenda weight: 90	Engineering education + product intuition mass amplifier
12	Satya Nadella (Microsoft) 🔗 Home · @satyanadella Agenda weight: 89	CEO who ships frontier models into enterprise distribution
13	Mark Zuckerberg (Meta) 🔗 Repo · @Meta Agenda weight: 88	Open-weight + social distribution free-tier strategy
14	Elon Musk (xAI) 🔗 Home · @elonmusk Agenda weight: 87	Realtime X data + Grok product alternate narrative center
15	Noam Shazeer 🔗 Home · @NoamShazeer Agenda weight: 86	Transformer co-author → consumer-agent product path
16	Jared Kaplan (Anthropic) 🔗 Home · @AnthropicAI Agenda weight: 85	Scaling-laws→alignment productization research leadership
17	Jim Fan (NVIDIA) 🔗 Home · @DrJimFan Agenda weight: 84	Public flagship for embodied/game agents research
18	Percy Liang (Stanford CRFM) 🔗 Home · @percyliang Agenda weight: 83	HELM-class measurable-trust eval infrastructure
19	Andrew Ng 🔗 Home · @AndrewYNg Agenda weight: 82	Education + applied-AI global distribution layer
20	Oriol Vinyals (DeepMind) 🔗 Home · @OriolVinyalsML Agenda weight: 81	Sequence models + multi-agent research leadership

Who ships models, papers, stacks — with official X · top 20 · as_of 2026-09-05

#	Name	Why on this map
1	Google DeepMind 🔗 Home · @GoogleDeepMind System influence: 100	Science breakthrough + Gemini; Search/Cloud distribution
2	OpenAI 🔗 Repo · @OpenAI System influence: 99	ChatGPT default entry; API + agent platform center
3	Anthropic 🔗 Home · @AnthropicAI System influence: 98	Claude long-horizon/safety stack; enterprise coding narrative
4	Meta FAIR / Superintelligence Labs 🔗 Repo · @AIatMeta System influence: 97	Llama open-weight default base; research→community flywheel
5	Microsoft Research / Microsoft AI 🔗 Home · @MSFTResearch System influence: 96	Copilot distribution + Azure hosting; enterprise buy path
6	xAI 🔗 Home · @xai System influence: 95	Grok + X realtime surface; Imagine multimodal
7	NVIDIA Research / AI 🔗 Home · @nvidia System influence: 94	Compute + NIM inference; supply choke point
8	Amazon Science / AWS AI 🔗 Home · @AmazonScience System influence: 93	Bedrock multi-model shelf; default-visible in AWS accounts
9	Mistral AI 🔗 Home · @MistralAI System influence: 92	EU-compliance open/API dual track
10	DeepSeek 🔗 Home · @deepseek_ai System influence: 91	Open reasoning cost shock; private-deploy reference
11	Alibaba Qwen / Tongyi 🔗 Repo · @Alibaba_Qwen System influence: 90	Bilingual + tool-use ecosystem; open and cloud
12	Moonshot / Kimi 🔗 Home · @Kimi_Moonshot System influence: 89	Strong Chinese long-context product
13	Cohere 🔗 Home · @Cohere System influence: 88	Enterprise RAG/retrieval + Command line
14	Hugging Face 🔗 Home · @huggingface System influence: 87	Model/dataset/Spaces distribution hub
15	Allen Institute for AI (AI2) 🔗 Home · @allen_ai System influence: 86	Open science path incl. OLMo-class models
16	Stanford CRFM 🔗 Home · @StanfordHAI System influence: 85	Eval×policy academic hub (HELM)
17	Stability AI 🔗 Home · @StabilityAI System influence: 84	Image-gen open-weight and API product node
18	Black Forest Labs (FLUX) 🔗 Home · @bfl_ml System influence: 83	FLUX image-gen research/product line
19	Perplexity 🔗 Repo · @perplexity_ai System influence: 82	Retrieval-native chat product; active public eng narrative
20	Runway Research 🔗 Home · @runwayml System influence: 81	Video-gen research+product; Gen-series public reference

Each row links the canonical paper — not weekly citation heat · top 20 · as_of 2026-09-05

#	Name	Why on this map
1	Attention Is All You Need (Vaswani et al.) 🔗 Paper Idea legacy: 100	Origin of the default Transformer architecture
2	Scaling Laws / Kaplan et al. 🔗 Paper Idea legacy: 99	Start of predictable compute-data-params narrative
3	GPT-3 / few-shot learners 🔗 Paper Idea legacy: 98	Public proof that large pretrain yields general ability
4	InstructGPT / RLHF 🔗 Paper Idea legacy: 97	Productization path aligning to human preference
5	Constitutional AI (Anthropic) 🔗 Paper Idea legacy: 96	Discussable blueprint for principle-based alignment
6	Chain-of-Thought prompting 🔗 Paper Idea legacy: 95	Made reasoning an explicit controllable interface
7	ReAct (reason + act) 🔗 Paper Idea legacy: 94	Default mental model for tool-using agents
8	LLaMA (Meta) 🔗 Paper Idea legacy: 93	Turn where open weights became a default base
9	Chinchilla compute-optimal 🔗 Paper Idea legacy: 92	Efficiency correction: data vs parameters
10	Diffusion / DDPM family 🔗 Paper Idea legacy: 91	Image-gen main path shift GAN→diffusion
11	CLIP (OpenAI) 🔗 Paper Idea legacy: 90	Vision-language shared representation into products
12	AlphaFold (DeepMind) 🔗 Paper Idea legacy: 89	Undeniable science-AI achievement sample
13	FlashAttention 🔗 Paper Idea legacy: 88	Feasibility jump for long-context train/serve
14	Mixture-of-Experts / Switch Transformers 🔗 Paper Idea legacy: 87	Sparse activation scaling became mainstream
15	DPO (Direct Preference Optimization) 🔗 Paper Idea legacy: 86	Widely adopted simplified alignment training path
16	Toolformer 🔗 Paper Idea legacy: 85	Early clear demo of models learning to call APIs
17	Segment Anything (Meta) 🔗 Paper Idea legacy: 84	Vision foundation model train-once multi-downstream template
18	Whisper (OpenAI) 🔗 Paper Idea legacy: 83	One default open baseline for speech recognition
19	BERT (Devlin et al.) 🔗 Paper Idea legacy: 82	Prior-gen turn: bidirectional pretrain as NLP industrial default
20	LoRA / PEFT family 🔗 Paper Idea legacy: 81	Cheap adapters made private fine-tune a default move

Each row links the official board/repo · top 20 · as_of 2026-09-05

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

AI products often named on launch/distribution surfaces — each row links home · top 20 · as_of 2026-09-05

#	Name	Why on this map
1	ChatGPT 🔗 Repo · @OpenAI Distribution heat: 100	Default chat entry; launch-narrative center
2	Claude 🔗 Home · @AnthropicAI Distribution heat: 99	Long-form/coding chat product surface
3	Cursor 🔗 Product · @cursor_ai Distribution heat: 98	AI IDE path from launch to mainstream
4	Perplexity 🔗 Repo · @perplexity_ai Distribution heat: 97	Retrieval-native answer engine; strong distribution narrative
5	v0 (Vercel) 🔗 Product · @vercel Distribution heat: 96	UI-gen→deployable launch product template
6	Lovable 🔗 Product · @Lovable Distribution heat: 95	NL→full-stack app PH-hot product shape
7	Bolt.new 🔗 Product · @boltdotnew Distribution heat: 94	In-browser one-shot full-stack prototypes
8	Gamma 🔗 Product Hunt · @gammaapp Distribution heat: 93	AI decks/docs launch tool
9	Notion AI 🔗 Home · @NotionHQ Distribution heat: 92	Workspace-native writing/Q&A
10	Raycast AI 🔗 Home · @raycastapp Distribution heat: 91	Launcher-native AI command layer
11	Linear 🔗 Home · @linear Distribution heat: 90	Eng project management + AI assist
12	ElevenLabs 🔗 Home · @ElevenLabs Distribution heat: 89	Voice gen/clone product surface
13	Suno 🔗 Home · @SunoMusic Distribution heat: 88	Mass-market music-gen launch breakout shape
14	Runway 🔗 Home · @runwayml Distribution heat: 87	Creator video-gen tool stack
15	Ideogram 🔗 Home · @ideogram_ai Distribution heat: 86	Text-in-image friendly image product
16	Replicate 🔗 Home · @replicate Distribution heat: 85	Model-as-API marketplace; dev distribution
17	Hugging Face 🔗 Home · @huggingface Distribution heat: 84	Model/Spaces community distribution hub
18	Descript 🔗 Home · @descript Distribution heat: 83	Transcript-first A/V product
19	Midjourney 🔗 Home · @midjourney Distribution heat: 82	Aesthetic still-gen mass entry (main site often bot-walled)
20	Product Hunt AI topic 🔗 Product Hunt · @ProductHunt Distribution heat: 81	Master index of AI launches (topic page)

High-frequency iOS AI consumer entries — each row links App Store (editorial map, not live chart) · top 20 · as_of 2026-09-05

#	Name	Why on this map
1	ChatGPT 🔗 App Store · @OpenAI Store visibility: 100	Default consumer chat entry
2	Claude by Anthropic 🔗 App Store · @AnthropicAI Store visibility: 99	Long-form/coding assistant on iOS
3	Google Gemini 🔗 App Store · @Google Store visibility: 98	Google multimodal assistant entry
4	Microsoft Copilot 🔗 App Store · @Microsoft Store visibility: 97	Microsoft assistant + OS integration narrative
5	Grok 🔗 App Store · @xai Store visibility: 96	xAI assistant; X-ecosystem distribution
6	Perplexity 🔗 App Store · @perplexity_ai Store visibility: 95	Retrieval-native Q&A mobile entry
7	Character.AI 🔗 App Store · @character_ai Store visibility: 94	Character-chat consumer breakout shape
8	PhotoRoom AI Photo Editor 🔗 App Store Store visibility: 93	E-commerce/cutout AI photo edit
9	Remini – AI Photo Enhancer 🔗 App Store Store visibility: 92	Photo upscale/enhance breakout
10	Lensa: AI Photo & Video Editor 🔗 App Store Store visibility: 91	Portrait stylization AI editor
11	FaceApp: Face Editor 🔗 App Store Store visibility: 90	Face-transform AI filters
12	CapCut – Video Editor 🔗 App Store Store visibility: 89	Short-video edit + AI features
13	Canva: AI Photo & Video Editor 🔗 App Store Store visibility: 88	Design templates + generative features
14	Grammarly Keyboard 🔗 App Store · @Grammarly Store visibility: 87	Writing-assistant keyboard layer
15	Duolingo 🔗 App Store · @duolingo Store visibility: 86	Language learning + AI conversation
16	Speak: Language Learning 🔗 App Store Store visibility: 85	Speaking-practice AI coach
17	Notion 🔗 App Store · @NotionHQ Store visibility: 84	Notes/wiki + Notion AI
18	starryai – AI Art Generator 🔗 App Store Store visibility: 83	Text-to-image consumer entry
19	Wondershare Wonder AI Art 🔗 App Store Store visibility: 82	AI art generation consumer tool
20	Microsoft 365 (Copilot surface) 🔗 App Store · @Microsoft365 Store visibility: 81	Office suite Copilot distribution surface

High-frequency Android AI entries — each row links Play details (editorial map, not live chart) · top 20 · as_of 2026-09-05

#	Name	Why on this map
1	ChatGPT 🔗 Google Play · @OpenAI Store visibility: 100	Default consumer chat entry
2	Claude by Anthropic 🔗 Google Play · @AnthropicAI Store visibility: 99	Long-form/coding assistant on Android
3	Google Gemini 🔗 Google Play · @Google Store visibility: 98	Google multimodal assistant entry
4	Microsoft Copilot 🔗 Google Play · @Microsoft Store visibility: 97	Microsoft assistant Android entry
5	Grok 🔗 Google Play · @xai Store visibility: 96	xAI assistant; X-ecosystem distribution
6	Perplexity 🔗 Google Play · @perplexity_ai Store visibility: 95	Retrieval-native Q&A mobile entry
7	Character.AI 🔗 Google Play · @character_ai Store visibility: 94	Character-chat consumer breakout shape
8	PhotoRoom 🔗 Google Play Store visibility: 93	E-commerce/cutout AI photo edit
9	Remini 🔗 Google Play Store visibility: 92	Photo upscale/enhance breakout
10	Lensa 🔗 Google Play Store visibility: 91	Portrait stylization AI editor
11	FaceApp 🔗 Google Play Store visibility: 90	Face-transform AI filters
12	CapCut 🔗 Google Play Store visibility: 89	Short-video edit + AI features
13	Canva 🔗 Google Play Store visibility: 88	Design templates + generative features
14	Grammarly Keyboard 🔗 Google Play · @Grammarly Store visibility: 87	Writing-assistant keyboard layer
15	Duolingo 🔗 Google Play · @duolingo Store visibility: 86	Language learning + AI conversation
16	Notion 🔗 Google Play · @NotionHQ Store visibility: 85	Notes/wiki + Notion AI
17	Microsoft 365 (Office) 🔗 Google Play · @Microsoft365 Store visibility: 84	Office suite Copilot distribution surface
18	Background Eraser / remove.bg class 🔗 Google Play Store visibility: 83	Background-removal AI tools
19	starryai (Play search) 🔗 Google Play Store visibility: 82	Text-to-image consumer entry (search index)
20	Speak-class language AI (Play search) 🔗 Google Play Store visibility: 81	Speaking AI coach category index

High-frequency AI agenda topics on X — each row links search/hashtag (editorial index, not official live Trends) · top 20 · as_of 2026-09-05

#	Name	Why on this map
1	AI Agents 🔗 X search Agenda heat: 100	Autonomous agents / tool-use as main narrative
2	Claude / Anthropic 🔗 X search · @AnthropicAI Agenda heat: 99	Long-form, coding, and safety narrative center
3	ChatGPT / OpenAI 🔗 X search · @OpenAI Agenda heat: 98	Default chat entry and release-cadence talk
4	Grok / xAI 🔗 X search · @xai Agenda heat: 97	X-native assistant and model-release talk
5	Gemini / Google AI 🔗 X search · @Google Agenda heat: 96	Multimodal and search-integration agenda
6	DeepSeek 🔗 X search Agenda heat: 95	Open-weight / efficient-training contrast narrative
7	Open-weight LLMs 🔗 X search Agenda heat: 94	Qwen / Kimi / Mistral open-weight wave
8	MCP (Model Context Protocol) 🔗 X search Agenda heat: 93	Tool-interop standard as infrastructure talk
9	Cursor / AI IDE 🔗 X search · @cursor_ai Agenda heat: 92	In-editor coding-agent product surface
10	AI Video Generation 🔗 X search Agenda heat: 91	Sora / Kling / Seedance-class video gen
11	Image Gen / Flux 🔗 X search Agenda heat: 90	T2I aesthetics and local-model discussion
12	Voice AI / Realtime 🔗 X search Agenda heat: 89	Realtime voice assistants and call automation
13	AI Memory / Personalization 🔗 X search Agenda heat: 88	Memory and personalization as product competition
14	Local / On-device AI 🔗 X search Agenda heat: 87	On-device and local inference feasibility
15	AI Jobs / Automation 🔗 X search Agenda heat: 86	Jobs and knowledge-labor automation agenda
16	AI Safety (near-term) 🔗 X search Agenda heat: 85	Near-term safety / bio / cyber risk talk
17	Evals / Arena 🔗 X search Agenda heat: 84	Public arena and purchase-eval yardsticks
18	RAG / Knowledge 🔗 X search Agenda heat: 83	RAG and enterprise knowledge bases
19	AI Regulation 🔗 X search Agenda heat: 82	Policy, copyright, and deployment compliance
20	Multimodal / World Models 🔗 X search Agenda heat: 81	Multimodal and world-model frontier narrative

High-frequency AI community topics — each row links subreddit/hot search (editorial index, not live sitewide chart) · top 20 · as_of 2026-09-05

#	Name	Why on this map
1	r/MachineLearning · hot 🔗 Reddit Community heat: 100	Papers, methods, and review-culture main community
2	r/LocalLLaMA · hot 🔗 Reddit Community heat: 99	Local models / quant / hardware practice
3	r/OpenAI · hot 🔗 Reddit Community heat: 98	ChatGPT/API product and policy talk
4	r/ClaudeAI · hot 🔗 Reddit Community heat: 97	Claude product use and comparisons
5	r/ChatGPT · hot 🔗 Reddit Community heat: 96	Mass-market chat product experience feedback
6	r/singularity · hot 🔗 Reddit Community heat: 95	Long-run capability curve and social-impact narrative
7	r/artificial · hot 🔗 Reddit Community heat: 94	General AI news and discussion
8	r/StableDiffusion · hot 🔗 Reddit Community heat: 93	Open image-gen workflows
9	r/midjourney · hot 🔗 Reddit Community heat: 92	Aesthetic stills and prompt culture
10	r/LangChain · hot 🔗 Reddit Community heat: 91	Orchestration / tool-chain engineering practice
11	r/Oobabooga · hot 🔗 Reddit Community heat: 90	Local WebUI inference stack
12	r/LocalAI · hot 🔗 Reddit Community heat: 89	Self-hosted inference and API-compat layers
13	r/PromptEngineering · hot 🔗 Reddit Community heat: 88	Prompt and system-instruction craft
14	r/MLOps · hot 🔗 Reddit Community heat: 87	Train/deploy/monitor productionization
15	r/computervision · hot 🔗 Reddit Community heat: 86	Vision models and applications
16	Coding agents (Reddit search) 🔗 Reddit Community heat: 85	Cursor/Copilot/agent coding heat
17	AI video gen (Reddit search) 🔗 Reddit Community heat: 84	Video-gen models and tools discussion
18	RAG / memory (Reddit search) 🔗 Reddit Community heat: 83	RAG and long-term memory practice
19	Open-weight models (Reddit search) 🔗 Reddit Community heat: 82	Open-weight releases and benchmark contrast
20	AI jobs / automation (Reddit search) 🔗 Reddit Community heat: 81	Jobs and workflow-replacement talk

High-frequency open-source AI repos — each row links GitHub (editorial map, not live Trending ranks) · top 20 · as_of 2026-09-05

#	Name	Why on this map
1	ollama/ollama 🔗 Repo Ecosystem visibility: 100	Local model runtime; Docker-like one-shot pull
2	ggml-org/llama.cpp 🔗 Repo Ecosystem visibility: 99	CPU/GPU local quantized inference base
3	huggingface/transformers 🔗 Repo Ecosystem visibility: 98	Default model load/train library
4	vllm-project/vllm 🔗 Repo Ecosystem visibility: 97	High-throughput open serving
5	sgl-project/sglang 🔗 Repo Ecosystem visibility: 96	Fast structured-generation serving
6	langchain-ai/langchain 🔗 Repo Ecosystem visibility: 95	Default app orchestration ecosystem
7	langchain-ai/langgraph 🔗 Repo Ecosystem visibility: 94	Stateful agent-graph runtime
8	openai/codex 🔗 Repo Ecosystem visibility: 93	Terminal/repo coding-agent reference
9	Aider-AI/aider 🔗 Repo Ecosystem visibility: 92	Git-native pair-programming agent
10	All-Hands-AI/OpenHands 🔗 Repo Ecosystem visibility: 91	Open software-engineering agent platform
11	cline/cline 🔗 Repo Ecosystem visibility: 90	IDE-side autonomous coding agent
12	continuedev/continue 🔗 Repo Ecosystem visibility: 89	Open IDE autocomplete/agent extension
13	modelcontextprotocol/servers 🔗 Repo Ecosystem visibility: 88	MCP official/community server collection
14	comfyanonymous/ComfyUI 🔗 Repo Ecosystem visibility: 87	Node-based image/video gen workflows
15	open-webui/open-webui 🔗 Repo Ecosystem visibility: 86	Self-hosted ChatGPT-style frontend
16	langgenius/dify 🔗 Repo Ecosystem visibility: 85	Visual LLM app/workflow platform
17	n8n-io/n8n 🔗 Repo Ecosystem visibility: 84	Workflow automation + AI nodes
18	deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 🔗 Repo Ecosystem visibility: 83	Open-weight frontier model release anchor
19	QwenLM/Qwen3 🔗 Repo Ecosystem visibility: 82	Qwen open-model series entry
20	microsoft/autogen 🔗 Repo Ecosystem visibility: 81	Multi-agent conversation framework

Agent/Claude skills and distribution surfaces — each row links docs/repos (editorial map, not live download ranks) · top 20 · as_of 2026-09-05

#	Name	Why on this map
1	Anthropic Agent Skills (docs) 🔗 Skill Distribution visibility: 100	Official skill format and usage contract
2	anthropics/skills 🔗 Skill Distribution visibility: 99	Official public skill sample repo
3	vercel-labs/agent-skills 🔗 Skill Distribution visibility: 98	Engineering-oriented agent skills pack (Vercel)
4	awesome-claude-skills 🔗 Skill Distribution visibility: 97	Curated Claude skills list
5	AgentSkill.sh 🔗 Skill Distribution visibility: 96	Third-party skill discovery directory
6	ClawHub 🔗 Skill Distribution visibility: 95	OpenClaw-family skill distribution surface
7	modelcontextprotocol/servers 🔗 Repo Distribution visibility: 94	MCP servers as pluggable tool-skill layer
8	GitHub Skills 🔗 Skill Distribution visibility: 93	Official GitHub interactive learning skills
9	openai/codex 🔗 Repo Distribution visibility: 92	Codex runtime + extension/skill surface
10	Aider-AI/aider 🔗 Repo Distribution visibility: 91	In-repo coding-skill habit reference
11	cline/cline 🔗 Repo Distribution visibility: 90	IDE agent skill/tool composition surface
12	continuedev/continue 🔗 Repo Distribution visibility: 89	Open IDE extension skill ecosystem
13	crewAIInc/crewAI 🔗 Repo Distribution visibility: 88	Multi-role agent skill orchestration
14	microsoft/autogen 🔗 Repo Distribution visibility: 87	Conversational multi-agent skill composition
15	langchain-ai/langgraph 🔗 Repo Distribution visibility: 86	Graph state machine for reusable sub-skills
16	All-Hands-AI/OpenHands 🔗 Repo Distribution visibility: 85	Software-engineering agent skill platform
17	firecrawl/firecrawl 🔗 Repo Distribution visibility: 84	Web-crawl skill (agent data ingress)
18	BerriAI/litellm 🔗 Repo Distribution visibility: 83	Multi-model routing skill middleware
19	langgenius/dify 🔗 Repo Distribution visibility: 82	Visual workflow as composable skill canvas
20	n8n-io/n8n 🔗 Repo Distribution visibility: 81	Automation node skill library