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 2,063 AI releases from 764 sources. 536 major-or-bigger releases landed in the last 90 days, and the feed is averaging 69.9 releases per week.
UPDATED 2026-11-02Which labs ship the most AI releases?
Anthropic leads with 208 tracked releases, ahead of OpenAI (180) and Google (76).
| # | Lab / source | Releases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anthropic | 208 | |
| 2 | OpenAI | 180 | |
| 3 | 76 | ||
| 4 | Wes Roth | 65 | |
| 5 | Simon Willison | 57 | |
| 6 | Fireship | 44 | |
| 7 | Sam Witteveen | 44 | |
| 8 | Two Minute Papers | 44 | |
| 9 | NVIDIA | 40 | |
| 10 | Google DeepMind | 36 | |
| 11 | xAI | 25 | |
| 12 | Cloudflare | 24 |
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“Anthropic is the most-tracked AI source on AI/TLDR with 208 releases.” — AI/TLDR AI Release Index, https://ai-tldr.dev/stats/#lab-leaderboard, retrieved 2026-11-02.
What kinds of releases dominate?
Tools are the largest category (517), out of models (339), video (246) and articles (233).
How fast is AI shipping?
AI/TLDR is averaging 69.9 releases per week. 219 landed in the last 4 weeks — down 23% from the 4 weeks before (285).
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 69.9 new AI releases per week (12-week average).” — AI/TLDR AI Release Index, https://ai-tldr.dev/stats/#release-velocity, retrieved 2026-11-02.
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 | 3 | 57 |
| 3 | Wes Roth | 3.1 | 65 |
| 4 | 3.2 | 76 | |
| 5 | Matthew Berman | 3.2 | 7 |
| 6 | Sam Witteveen | 4.7 | 44 |
| 7 | Two Minute Papers | 4.8 | 44 |
| 8 | Fireship | 4.8 | 44 |
Cadence = mean days between a lab's consecutive verified release dates (labs with 4+ tracked releases).
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“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 2026-11-02.
How big are the releases?
Most-starred open-source AI tools
REA leads the tracked open-source landscape with 421k GitHub stars.
| # | Tool | Category | Stars | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | REA | Agents & Automation | 421k | |
| 2 | OpenClaw | Agents & Automation | 394k | |
| 3 | Superpowers | Agents & Automation | 311k | |
| 4 | Skills for Real Engineers | Agents & Automation | 310k | |
| 5 | ECC | Agents & Automation | 295k | |
| 6 | DeepSeek Harness | Agents & Automation | 269k | |
| 7 | Hermes Agent | Agents & Automation | 260k | |
| 8 | Karpathy Coding Guidelines | Agents & Automation | 228k | |
| 9 | opencode | AI Coding | 224k | |
| 10 | n8n | Agents & Automation | 209k | |
| 11 | Firecrawl | Data & Labeling | 198k | |
| 12 | Visual Studio Code | AI Coding | 194k | |
| 13 | MarkItDown | Retrieval & Knowledge (RAG) | 194k | |
| 14 | AutoGPT | Agents & Automation | 188k | |
| 15 | Ollama | Models & Inference | 186k |
Cite this
“REA is the most-starred open-source AI tool tracked by AI/TLDR, with 421k GitHub stars.” — AI/TLDR AI Release Index, https://ai-tldr.dev/stats/#most-starred-tools, retrieved 2026-11-02.