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.
2734 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 219 of 1426 tracked, as of 2026-10-11)
- sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2: ranked #1 of 219 by Hugging Face downloads among the entries we track; downloads -5.9% since 2026-10-04 (as of 2026-10-11). 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 219 by Hugging Face downloads among the entries we track; downloads -5.6% since 2026-10-04 (as of 2026-10-11). 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 219 by Hugging Face downloads among the entries we track; downloads -4.0% since 2026-10-04 (as of 2026-10-11). Source: Signals 4 (Signals API) — https://data.jiangzhang.ca/signals4/t/models/baai-bge-small-en-v1-5.html
Repos (ranked 61 of 61 tracked, as of 2026-10-11)
- codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x: ranked #1 of 61 by GitHub stars among the entries we track; stars +0.2% since 2026-10-04 (as of 2026-10-11). Source: Signals 4 (Signals API) — https://data.jiangzhang.ca/signals4/t/repos/codecrafters-io-build-your-own-x.html
- sindresorhus/awesome: ranked #2 of 61 by GitHub stars among the entries we track; stars +0.5% since 2026-10-04 (as of 2026-10-11). Source: Signals 4 (Signals API) — https://data.jiangzhang.ca/signals4/t/repos/sindresorhus-awesome.html
- public-apis/public-apis: ranked #3 of 61 by GitHub stars among the entries we track; stars +0.3% since 2026-10-04 (as of 2026-10-11). Source: Signals 4 (Signals API) — https://data.jiangzhang.ca/signals4/t/repos/public-apis-public-apis.html
This week's churn: 2 new entries, 37 not seen in the latest snapshot, 183 rank moves
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google/embeddinggemma-2moved from #58 to #50 (+116.7% downloads) -
Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbomoved from #93 to #87 (+119.9% downloads) -
Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1moved from #80 to #77 (+19.6% downloads)
Biggest model gains (downloads)
| Model | Gain | From → To |
|---|---|---|
Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B |
+1,102,866 | 29,665,992 → 30,768,858 |
abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF |
+634,914 | 1,553,744 → 2,188,658 |
autotrust/GEV-26B-Decide |
+463,228 | 446,527 → 909,755 |
Comfy-Org/MiniMax-H3 |
+324,069 | 23,256,823 → 23,580,892 |
autotrust/JEV-27B-VL |
+257,964 | 1,278,569 → 1,536,533 |
Biggest repo gains (stars)
| Repo | Gain | From → To |
|---|---|---|
storytold/photocraft |
+27,746 | 16,749 → 44,495 |
Niko1221/Strata |
+10,204 | 10,902 → 21,106 |
robbietilton/Compositor |
+8,150 | 7,558 → 15,708 |
eternity4719/HowToLiveBetter |
+6,216 | 40,361 → 46,577 |
openai/math |
+4,519 | 9,346 → 13,865 |
What showed up, by source
GitHub (140 items)
- codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x — 2026-10-11
- sindresorhus/awesome — 2026-10-11
- public-apis/public-apis — 2026-10-11
- freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp — 2026-10-11
Hugging Face (340 items)
- google/embeddinggemma-2 — 2026-10-11
- jialinyyzz/humanizer — 2026-10-11
- Cloudflare/clef — 2026-10-11
- abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF — 2026-10-11
arXiv (439 items)
- On the estimation and validity of AI time horizons---a statistical look at the METR plot — 2026-10-11
- From Reactive Containment to Proactive Assurance: Lessons from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Agent Security Incidents — 2026-10-11
- BrickBench: Evaluating Agentic Brick Design — 2026-10-11
- Bi-FORK: Generative Modeling of High-Dimensional Bifurcating Systems — 2026-10-11
LMSYS Arena (327 items)
- gemini-4-argon-high — 2026-10-11
- claude-opus-4-6-high — 2026-10-11
- claude-fable-5-high — 2026-10-11
- claude-opus-5.5-high — 2026-10-11
YouTube (69 items)
- Why the conquistadors thought they could win — Si Sheppard — 2026-10-11
- Why the Aztecs were doomed - Si Sheppard — 2026-10-11
- Why the Maya were harder to conquer than the Aztecs — Si Sheppard — 2026-10-11
- What the Aztec and Inca emperors got wrong about the Spanish — Si Sheppard — 2026-10-11
Silicon Valley news (193 items)
- Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Erodes Your Ability to Persist at Hard Things — 2026-10-11
- Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help — 2026-10-11
- "Robot" Is a Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not a Robot — 2026-10-11
- IRCv3 — 2026-10-11
Industry news (1051 items)
- Nvidia in talks to invest further in Reflection AI or buy it, FT reports - Reuters — 2026-10-11
- Nvidia in talks to acquire US ‘open’ model start-up Reflection AI - Financial Times — 2026-10-11
- Nvidia Discusses Boosting Reflection Investment, Computing Deal - Bloomberg.com — 2026-10-11
- Super Micro contractor pleads guilty in scheme to divert AI servers with Nvidia chips to China - Reuters — 2026-10-11
AI hardware (175 items)
- AMD to Report Fiscal Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results — 2026-10-11
- AMD to Acquire World Labs to Advance the Future of AI Compute — 2026-10-11
- AMD, Cisco and HUMAIN Expand Saudi Arabia’s AI Infrastructure as AMD Instinct Systems Go Live — 2026-10-11
- AMD Appoints Tim Ryan to Board of Directors — 2026-10-11
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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