What's breaking out?

Growth across AI apps, models, tools and research, updated daily.

Tab takes the example

Today

AI appsA handful of AI apps pulled away this month.Web technologiesAI-made images are spreading across the web.Business softwareBusinesses are starting to pay for these.Research ideasAI research is changing what it works on.

Who's breaking out

1B10B100B1TAug 15Aug 30Sep 15Oct 2similar peerspre.dev-agent184BHoplite102Bop72.6B
#NameGrowth
1pre.dev-agentpre.dev156×
2Hoplitehoplite.dev95×
3opCLI agent58×
4Chess Reasoner Trace Generator49×
5arm-experiments36×
6WebSummarizer32×
7ale-evolApplied research lab for frontier models21×
8Command CodeCLI agent14×

30 days · Tokens are usage, not users.

Where research is moving

Evaluation and benchmarking, Robotics and embodied control, Agentic systems and tool use are taking a growing share of new papers.

5.0%10.0%Oct 24May 25Jan 26Sep 26other ideasEvaluation andbenchmarking11.3%Robotics andembodied control5.1%Agentic systems andtool use5.0%
Measured, not estimated · snapshot 2026-10-02 · Growth is shown only where the starting size is big enough to mean something.