Perplexity AI

Yes. Perplexity AI is growing faster than 90% of comparable items on open models and AI models. The strongest: open models, 3.2× in 30 days (28.3k to 90.1k downloads in 30 days).

Open models: 3.2× in 30 days (28.3k to 90.1k downloads in 30 days). AI models: 1.60× in 7 days (12.5B to 20B tokens a week). Developer tools: 1.03× in 30 days (1.3M to 1.3M downloads in 30 days). Business software: 0.99× in 3 months (95.7 to 94.6 adoption score).

On open models it ranks #33 of 1,001 open models by growth over 30 days, faster than 96% of open models. On AI models it ranks #8 of 133 AI models by growth over 7 days, faster than 93% of AI models. On developer tools it ranks #741 of 1,584 companies with packages by growth over 30 days, faster than 53% of companies with packages.

pplx-embed-v1-0.6b (open models, 3.2×), pplx-embed-v1-4b (open models, 2.6×) and perplexity_pplx-embed-v1-0.6b (AI models, 1.60×).

Beside Perplexity AI, the fastest growers on open models are Hy3 (38×), jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small (23×), jina-embeddings-v3-hf (11×) and Laguna-XS.2 (10×).

Vela Breakout counts public usage every day: AI tokens, package downloads, installs, open roles, software spend and web reach. Each figure is measured, not estimated, and dated; this page is as of Oct 10, 2026.