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.
2390 items collected across 7 days and 7 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 312 of 2149 tracked, as of 2026-11-01)
- sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2: ranked #1 of 312 by Hugging Face downloads among the entries we track; downloads -4.1% since 2026-10-25 (as of 2026-11-01). 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 312 by Hugging Face downloads among the entries we track; downloads -4.7% since 2026-10-25 (as of 2026-11-01). 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 312 by Hugging Face downloads among the entries we track; downloads -5.8% since 2026-10-25 (as of 2026-11-01). Source: Signals 4 (Signals API) — https://data.jiangzhang.ca/signals4/t/models/baai-bge-small-en-v1-5.html
Repos (ranked 76 of 76 tracked, as of 2026-11-01)
- codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x: ranked #1 of 76 by GitHub stars among the entries we track; stars +0.3% since 2026-10-25 (as of 2026-11-01). Source: Signals 4 (Signals API) — https://data.jiangzhang.ca/signals4/t/repos/codecrafters-io-build-your-own-x.html
- sindresorhus/awesome: ranked #2 of 76 by GitHub stars among the entries we track; stars +0.7% since 2026-10-25 (as of 2026-11-01). Source: Signals 4 (Signals API) — https://data.jiangzhang.ca/signals4/t/repos/sindresorhus-awesome.html
- public-apis/public-apis: ranked #3 of 76 by GitHub stars among the entries we track; stars +0.4% since 2026-10-25 (as of 2026-11-01). Source: Signals 4 (Signals API) — https://data.jiangzhang.ca/signals4/t/repos/public-apis-public-apis.html
This week's churn: 4 new entries, 37 not seen in the latest snapshot, 306 rank moves
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mistralai/Mistral-Large-4-1T-A52Bmoved from #124 to #116 (+55.4% downloads) -
baidu/Unlimited-OCR-2moved from #66 to #60 (+58.2% downloads) -
ccore/Qwen3.5-4B-3D-Codermoved from #78 to #73 (+51.4% downloads)
Biggest model gains (downloads)
| Model | Gain | From → To |
|---|---|---|
openai-community/gpt2 |
+4,151,730 | 24,837,303 → 28,989,033 |
Comfy-Org/MiniMax-H3 |
+3,707,117 | 26,539,748 → 30,246,865 |
ISTA-DASLab/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-GSQ-RCO-GGUF |
+1,185,477 | 891,147 → 2,076,624 |
hexgrad/Kokoro-82M |
+912,177 | 10,335,335 → 11,247,512 |
BAAI/bge-m3 |
+567,242 | 29,783,764 → 30,351,006 |
Biggest repo gains (stars)
| Repo | Gain | From → To |
|---|---|---|
morluto/rea |
+32,463 | 384,462 → 416,925 |
Gathin23/cleanyourtv |
+13,486 | 34,903 → 48,389 |
sindresorhus/awesome |
+3,584 | 524,651 → 528,235 |
wheresryan22/anatomy |
+2,978 | 20,577 → 23,555 |
deepseek-ai/DeepInfer |
+2,363 | 22,380 → 24,743 |
What showed up, by source
GitHub (140 items)
- codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x — 2026-11-01
- sindresorhus/awesome — 2026-11-01
- public-apis/public-apis — 2026-11-01
- freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp — 2026-11-01
Hugging Face (341 items)
- Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.3-33B — 2026-11-01
- deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 — 2026-11-01
- LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B — 2026-11-01
- nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Transcribe-30B-A4B — 2026-11-01
arXiv (434 items)
- Rethinking Neural Thickets Without Weight Perturbations — 2026-11-01
- Read, Allocate, Route: Role-Coupled Tokenization for Pixel-Space Generative Transformers — 2026-11-01
- Luggage re-identification: A study of strategies towards a real-world application — 2026-11-01
- From extreme weather to agricultural consequences with agentic AI — 2026-11-01
YouTube (106 items)
- How to solve hard problems - mathematicians explain | Lex Fridman — 2026-11-01
- AI solves the Unique Games Conjecture - computer scientist responds | Lex Fridman — 2026-11-01
- The Game of Life: Complexity of nature explained by mathematician | Lex Fridman — 2026-11-01
- The Real Source of LBJ’s Power - Robert Caro — 2026-11-01
Silicon Valley news (189 items)
- Solve: the cost of insuring against debt defaults at hyperscalers Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Oracle has hit its highest level since 2021 (Gunjan Banerji/Wall Street Journal) — 2026-11-01
- Norway makes shithouses great again — 2026-11-01
- A tiny Pacific country rolls out universal basic income — 2026-11-01
- Lumaril, which develops AI software for optimizing industrial production by connecting to existing control systems, raised a $66M Series A at a $400M valuation (Sarah Klearman/Wall Street Journal) — 2026-11-01
Industry news (1005 items)
- Nvidia responds to report Jensen Huang was target of Chinese asset, says diversion allegations were 'investigated and debunked' - CNBC — 2026-11-01
- Nvidia CEO Huang caught up in reported Chinese spy probe as AI stocks slide - Yahoo Finance — 2026-11-01
- Nvidia Finds Itself at the Center of an AI Spy Saga - CNET — 2026-11-01
- Buy This Incredible Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock Before It Soars 144% (Hint: It Will Outpace Nvidia’s Growth) - The Motley Fool — 2026-11-01
AI hardware (175 items)
- AMD and Meta Advance Strategic Partnership to Power Meta’s Superintelligence Infrastructure — 2026-11-01
- Introducing AMD Helion, Agentic AI Compute at Rack Scale — 2026-11-01
- AMD to Report Fiscal Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results — 2026-11-01
- AMD to Acquire World Labs to Advance the Future of AI Compute — 2026-11-01
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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