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AI signals this week (2026-09-14 to 2026-09-20): what actually moved

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)

Repos (ranked 46 of 46 tracked, as of 2026-09-20)

This week's churn: 1 new entries, 40 not seen in the latest snapshot, 49 rank moves

  • convaiinnovations/laya moved from #73 to #66 (+53.2% downloads)
  • XingChen-AGI/Xing4.0-29B-A4B moved from #54 to #51 (+73.4% downloads)
  • Jackrong/Qwopus3.8-27B-Flash-GGUF moved 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)

Hugging Face (343 items)

arXiv (431 items)

LMSYS Arena (327 items)

YouTube (121 items)

Silicon Valley news (191 items)

Industry news (1053 items)

AI hardware (175 items)

Notes

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