AI Release Index
Live statistics on the AI releases and open-source tools AI/TLDR tracks — every figure derived from the verified feed.
AI/TLDR has tracked 1,150 AI releases from 486 sources. 482 major-or-bigger releases landed in the last 90 days, and the feed is averaging 55.5 releases per week.
UPDATED 2026-08-04Which labs ship the most AI releases?
Anthropic leads with 96 tracked releases, ahead of OpenAI (96) and Google (47).
| # | Lab / source | Releases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anthropic | 96 | |
| 2 | OpenAI | 96 | |
| 3 | 47 | ||
| 4 | Simon Willison | 39 | |
| 5 | NVIDIA | 29 | |
| 6 | Wes Roth | 29 | |
| 7 | Google DeepMind | 22 | |
| 8 | Two Minute Papers | 21 | |
| 9 | Fireship | 18 | |
| 10 | xAI | 18 | |
| 11 | Microsoft | 14 | |
| 12 | Cloudflare | 13 |
Cite this
“Anthropic is the most-tracked AI source on AI/TLDR with 96 releases.” — AI/TLDR AI Release Index, https://ai-tldr.dev/stats/#lab-leaderboard, retrieved 2026-08-04.
What kinds of releases dominate?
Tools are the largest category (269), out of models (188), ecosystem (154) and articles (121).
How fast is AI shipping?
AI/TLDR is averaging 55.5 releases per week. 244 landed in the last 4 weeks — up 17% from the 4 weeks before (208).
Velocity = mean releases per 7-day bucket over the last 12 weeks; momentum = last 4 weeks vs the prior 4.
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“AI/TLDR is tracking 55.5 new AI releases per week (12-week average).” — AI/TLDR AI Release Index, https://ai-tldr.dev/stats/#release-velocity, retrieved 2026-08-04.
How often does each lab ship?
Riley Brown ships a tracked AI release every 2.7 days on average — the fastest cadence among labs with 4 or more tracked releases.
| # | Lab / source | Avg days between | Releases |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riley Brown | 2.7 | 4 |
| 2 | Simon Willison | 2.8 | 39 |
| 3 | Matthew Berman | 3.2 | 7 |
| 4 | 3.3 | 47 | |
| 5 | 1littlecoder | 3.6 | 11 |
| 6 | Wes Roth | 4 | 29 |
| 7 | Two Minute Papers | 5.9 | 21 |
| 8 | Fireship | 6.7 | 18 |
Cadence = mean days between a lab's consecutive verified release dates (labs with 4+ tracked releases).
Cite this
“Riley Brown ships a tracked AI release every 2.7 days on average (AI/TLDR Release Cadence Index).” — AI/TLDR AI Release Index, https://ai-tldr.dev/stats/#lab-cadence, retrieved 2026-08-04.
How big are the releases?
Most-starred open-source AI tools
OpenClaw leads the tracked open-source landscape with 385k GitHub stars.
| # | Tool | Category | Stars | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OpenClaw | Agents & Automation | 385k | |
| 2 | Hermes Agent | Agents & Automation | 225k | |
| 3 | n8n | Agents & Automation | 199k | |
| 4 | opencode | AI Coding | 193k | |
| 5 | AutoGPT | Agents & Automation | 186k | |
| 6 | Ollama | Models & Inference | 178k | |
| 7 | MarkItDown | Retrieval & Knowledge (RAG) | 171k | |
| 8 | Stable Diffusion web UI (AUTOMATIC1111) | Multimodal Generation | 164k | |
| 9 | Transformers | Models & Inference | 163k | |
| 10 | Firecrawl | Data & Labeling | 160k | |
| 11 | Langflow | App UIs & Builders | 153k | |
| 12 | Dify | Retrieval & Knowledge (RAG) | 151k | |
| 13 | Open WebUI | App UIs & Builders | 148k | |
| 14 | LangChain | App Orchestration | 143k | |
| 15 | ComfyUI | Multimodal Generation | 124k |
Cite this
“OpenClaw is the most-starred open-source AI tool tracked by AI/TLDR, with 385k GitHub stars.” — AI/TLDR AI Release Index, https://ai-tldr.dev/stats/#most-starred-tools, retrieved 2026-08-04.