Time machine
The AI landscape on 1 Jul 2026
Rankings are reconstructed from stored daily history (never re-estimated); the model list shows what had been released by that date. History depth grows with every ingest and with the backfilled time series (Wikipedia: 1 year, HN: 6 months).
Popularity ranking as of 1 Jul 2026
| # | vs 30d | AI | Today |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unchanged | Model Context Protocol | #1 |
| 2 | unchanged | Claude | #4 |
| 3 | unchanged | ChatGPT | #3 |
| 4 | unchanged | Claude Code | #6 |
| 5 | unchanged | Hugging Face Hub | #2 |
| 6 | 2places up | Ollama | #5 |
| 7 | 5places up | Cursor | #13 |
| 8 | 2places down | OpenAI Codex | #7 |
| 9 | 2places down | Gemini | #9 |
| 10 | unchanged | LangChain | #10 |
| 11 | 2places down | ElevenLabs | #8 |
| 12 | 1places down | n8n | #14 |
| 13 | unchanged | Mistral La Plateforme | #16 |
| 14 | unchanged | DeepSeek | #12 |
| 15 | unchanged | Qwen | #11 |
| 16 | 6places up | Whisper | #18 |
| 17 | unchanged | GitHub Copilot | #21 |
| 18 | 28places up | Browser Use | #72 |
| 19 | 2places up | CrewAI | #29 |
| 20 | unchanged | Grok | #19 |
| 21 | 3places down | xAI API | #24 |
| 22 | 13places up | vLLM | #23 |
| 23 | 28places up | Midjourney | #49 |
| 24 | 15places up | Claude Agent SDK | #51 |
| 25 | 28places up | Apple Intelligence | #20 |
| 26 | 10places up | Cohere Platform | #28 |
| 27 | 8places down | OpenRouter | #15 |
| 28 | 2places down | llama.cpp | #25 |
| 29 | 2places down | Gemma | #34 |
| 30 | 4places up | Kimi | #22 |
Capability frontier at that date (ECI)
- Claude Fable 5163.6
- GPT-5.5 Pro162.45
- GPT-5.5159.25
- GPT-5.4 Pro159.12
- Claude Opus 4.8158.3
- GPT-5.4156.92
- GPT-5.3-Codex156.84
- Claude Opus 4.7156.39
723 tracked models had been released by this date.
Events in 2026-07
- DeepSeek releases DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
- DeepSeek releases DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (low)
- DeepSeek releases DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (none)
- DeepSeek releases DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (unknown)
- Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
- Qwen releases Qwen3.7 Flash
- Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5
- Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5 (batch)
- Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5 (low)
- Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5 (unknown)
- Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5 (xhigh)
- Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5 (medium)