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Trends over time

Jul 13–Oct 4, 2026 · 12 published weeks

In the latest report, the remaining 1% of attention can include unpublished topics and podcasts with no qualifying discussion.

6 topics highlighted · Sep 28–Oct 4, 2026

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Topic attention across published weeksEach colored line uses the same attention scale. Only topics with published measurements are shown; their shares do not necessarily total 100%. Breaks mean missing measurements, not zero. Dated dots open that topic and week below.0%11.3%22.5%33.8%45%Jul 13Jul 20Jul 27Aug 3Aug 10Aug 17Aug 24Aug 31Sep 7Sep 14Sep 21Sep 28Adoption Use Cases: About the same in the latest reportAdoption Use Cases33.4%Research: Gaining attention in the latest reportResearch22.7%Agents: About the same in the latest reportAgents14.5%Safety & governance: Losing attention in the latest reportSafety & governance8.6%Hardware: Gaining attention in the latest reportHardware7.9%Regulation: About the same in the latest reportRegulation3.9%Open Models: About the same in the latest reportOpen Models3.1%Economics: Losing attention in the latest reportEconomics2.5%Infrastructure: About the same in the latest reportInfrastructure1.2%Jobs: About the same in the latest reportJobs1.2%Other: Below threshold in the latest reportOtherNo measurement

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Open Models · 6.7% · Jul 27–Aug 2, 2026 · About the same in the latest report

Open Models

AI models whose weights or code are available for others to use and adapt.

Jul 27–Aug 2, 2026

6.7%About the sameDown 2.8 percentage points from last week

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Open Models, week by weekDated controls show each week's attention share. Gaps mean no qualifying measurement, not zero. Select a week to read its discussion below.0%11.3%22.5%33.8%45%
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Open Models · Jul 27–Aug 2, 2026

A closer read

What changed
Its share fell from 9.5% to 6.7%, with evidence across 7 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “Is Offense or Defense Dominant? FAR.AI's Adam Gleave on the AI Security Leaderboard” and “Reconstructing how OpenAI agents attacked Hugging Face”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 6 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 7 podcasts in the full analysis.

Podcast moments from the week

11 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 6 podcasts

The Cognitive Revolution

Is Offense or Defense Dominant? FAR.AI's Adam Gleave on the AI Security Leaderboard

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    “I am optimistic that we can certainly get a lot better than we are now with open weight without major changes to the pipeline”
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Practical AI

Reconstructing how OpenAI agents attacked Hugging Face

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    “I did not get that in the initial. So I don't think that was really known at that point. Which is really ironic when you consider the fact that Hugging Face was initially trying to use an OpenAI model to discern what happened with, unbeknownst to them, was an OpenAI model atta...”
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AI Inside

AI Is Eating Its Own Tail

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    “that's where the power of having so many open-weight models out there and the choice among models Yeah. It's so important because if you just have the nucleus of your stuff and these models can call upon it, it leaves you so much more in charge.”
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    “Well, yeah, I mean, NVIDIA basically leading off with this Open Secure AI Alliance, right? kind of collecting 50 companies, more than 50 actually. But, you know, you mentioned Palantir, Microsoft, Hugging Face, of course Salesforce, Cisco, Dell. There's a number of GitHub, SAP...”
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    “Well, you got, you got a couple different, you got like 3 different things going on here. You have the, uh, defense, the letter that was the open, the defense of Open Weight. That's 50 companies that did include Google, finally.”
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AI For Humans

The Singularity Is... Here? GPT-6, Opus 5 & AI's Scariest Week Yet

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    “this will be an open weights video model, which, if you know the way that AI video has gone, is a big deal”
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    “Before we dive into the exciting examples, because they are fun and great and scary and hilariously bad at times. When you say like, oh, it's open weights and that's going to be amazing, like distill that for someone who goes like, wait, I'm sorry, what does that mean for me a...”
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The AI Daily Brief

Big Tech Unites for Open Source AI—and Against Anthropic

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    “GLM-5.2 clearly wasn't as powerful as Mythos for anyone who actually used the model”
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    “Open weights accelerates the diffusion of AI across the economy by providing more options for specific customer requirements, can lower the cost of certain workloads”
    Open episode and seek to 21:15

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The Artificial Intelligence Show

#226: OpenAI’s Rogue Model, Kimi K3, Open Weights Letter & Demis Hassabis Calls for AI Regulatory Body

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    “Basically, Google DeepMind's approach and Google's approach at large is they release— let's say they build a frontier model today, like their 3.5 Pro, I think is what we're going to be on. That's what they will be releasing.”
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    “They just don't take the anti-position like Anthropic does. I don't think anyone thinks those models are seriously dangerous. Now keep in mind, this is 2023 when he's saying this. They have some risks, but the benefits may outweigh the loss. And I think, to be fair, even up to...”
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