Every day I collect AI signals from public sources for Signals 4 — a free daily digest of 4 items, one per core source. This is what the week looked like in the data.
2781 items collected across 7 days and 8 sources.
The standing numbers (from our own endpoints)
These are rankings we compute from our own daily snapshots — the same numbers as the site and the JSON endpoints, free to quote with attribution.
Models (ranked 119 of 716 tracked, as of 2026-09-20)
- sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2: ranked #1 of 119 by Hugging Face downloads among the entries we track; downloads -0.3% since 2026-09-13 (as of 2026-09-20). Source: Signals 4 (Signals API) — https://data.jiangzhang.ca/signals4/t/models/sentence-transformers-all-minilm-l6-v2.html
- cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L6-v2: ranked #2 of 119 by Hugging Face downloads among the entries we track; downloads +1.3% since 2026-09-13 (as of 2026-09-20). Source: Signals 4 (Signals API) — https://data.jiangzhang.ca/signals4/t/models/cross-encoder-ms-marco-minilm-l6-v2.html
- BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5: ranked #3 of 119 by Hugging Face downloads among the entries we track; downloads +0.7% since 2026-09-13 (as of 2026-09-20). Source: Signals 4 (Signals API) — https://data.jiangzhang.ca/signals4/t/models/baai-bge-small-en-v1-5.html
Repos (ranked 46 of 46 tracked, as of 2026-09-20)
- codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x: ranked #1 of 46 by GitHub stars among the entries we track; stars +0.2% since 2026-09-13 (as of 2026-09-20). Source: Signals 4 (Signals API) — https://data.jiangzhang.ca/signals4/t/repos/codecrafters-io-build-your-own-x.html
- sindresorhus/awesome: ranked #2 of 46 by GitHub stars among the entries we track; stars +0.5% since 2026-09-13 (as of 2026-09-20). Source: Signals 4 (Signals API) — https://data.jiangzhang.ca/signals4/t/repos/sindresorhus-awesome.html
- public-apis/public-apis: ranked #3 of 46 by GitHub stars among the entries we track; stars +0.4% since 2026-09-13 (as of 2026-09-20). Source: Signals 4 (Signals API) — https://data.jiangzhang.ca/signals4/t/repos/public-apis-public-apis.html
This week's churn: 1 new entries, 40 not seen in the latest snapshot, 49 rank moves
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convaiinnovations/layamoved from #73 to #66 (+53.2% downloads) -
XingChen-AGI/Xing4.0-29B-A4Bmoved from #54 to #51 (+73.4% downloads) -
Jackrong/Qwopus3.8-27B-Flash-GGUFmoved from #52 to #54 (+0.0% downloads)
Biggest model gains (downloads)
| Model | Gain | From → To |
|---|---|---|
prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf |
+1,502,787 | 405,609 → 1,908,396 |
Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B |
+1,246,500 | 22,498,727 → 23,745,227 |
cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L6-v2 |
+977,086 | 87,728,418 → 88,705,504 |
stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0 |
+691,623 | 2,396,887 → 3,088,510 |
ISTA-DASLab/Qwen3.8-27B-GSQ-RCO-GGUF |
+447,647 | 769,557 → 1,217,204 |
Biggest repo gains (stars)
| Repo | Gain | From → To |
|---|---|---|
browser-use/jev-ultrafast |
+4,970 | 5,420 → 10,390 |
sindresorhus/awesome |
+2,278 | 505,763 → 508,041 |
public-apis/public-apis |
+2,014 | 479,757 → 481,771 |
rakanki911/DLSS5-Swapper |
+1,787 | 4,206 → 5,993 |
eternity4719/HowToLiveBetter |
+1,610 | 5,024 → 6,634 |
What showed up, by source
GitHub (140 items)
- codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x — 2026-09-20
- sindresorhus/awesome — 2026-09-20
- public-apis/public-apis — 2026-09-20
- freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp — 2026-09-20
Hugging Face (343 items)
- prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf — 2026-09-20
- deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash — 2026-09-20
- convaiinnovations/laya — 2026-09-20
- XingChen-AGI/Xing4.0-29B-A4B — 2026-09-20
arXiv (431 items)
- Coding Agents with an Obstacle-Aware Harness for Safe Robot Manipulation — 2026-09-20
- Workspace Models: Lightweight Robotic Memory via Saliency-Driven Supervision — 2026-09-20
- FAMOS: Feed-Forward 3D Articulation Modeling from Sparse Observations — 2026-09-20
- Paint-Anything: Unified Any-Color Control for Image Generation and Editing — 2026-09-20
LMSYS Arena (327 items)
- claude-fable-5-high — 2026-09-20
- claude-opus-4-6-high — 2026-09-20
- claude-opus-4-7-high — 2026-09-20
- muse-spark-1.2 (xHigh) — 2026-09-20
YouTube (121 items)
- Prison system is an insane asylum | Andrew Scull and Lex Fridman — 2026-09-20
- Sigmund Freud vs Carl Jung: Why Freud hated Jung | Andrew Scull and Lex Fridman — 2026-09-20
- Mental illness in women vs men | Andrew Scull and Lex Fridman — 2026-09-20
- The Growing Gap Between ChatGPT and the AI Inside OpenAI - Noam Brown — 2026-09-20
Silicon Valley news (191 items)
- Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K — 2026-09-20
- US policy analysts, lawmakers, and others say several state-level AI chatbot safety bills included language that could provide loopholes for tech companies (Katie McQue/NPR) — 2026-09-20
- Don't Be Nice — 2026-09-20
- Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors — 2026-09-20
Industry news (1053 items)
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calls for AI to be developed "as fast as we can" - CBS News — 2026-09-20
- Nvidia-backed AI cloud firm Nscale reveals revenue surge in US IPO filing - Reuters — 2026-09-20
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang emerges as Trump's top ally in AI safety debate - CNBC — 2026-09-20
- Dario Says AI Should Slow Down. Jensen Wants to Go Full Steam Ahead. - WSJ — 2026-09-20
AI hardware (175 items)
- AMD, Cisco and HUMAIN Expand Saudi Arabia’s AI Infrastructure as AMD Instinct Systems Go Live — 2026-09-20
- AMD Appoints Tim Ryan to Board of Directors — 2026-09-20
- AMD Acquires Taalas to Advance Compute Solutions for Rapidly Growing AI Inference Market — 2026-09-20
- AMD Reports Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results — 2026-09-20
Notes
- All links point to the original sources; nothing is rewritten.
- The daily digest is free and archived permanently: https://data.jiangzhang.ca/signals4/archive/
- Machine-readable summary: https://data.jiangzhang.ca/llms.txt
- Raw daily data is also mirrored on GitHub: https://github.com/jiangzhangcc-glitch/ai-signals-daily
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