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 1,677 AI releases from 646 sources. 565 major-or-bigger releases landed in the last 90 days, and the feed is averaging 70 releases per week.
UPDATED 2026-09-18Which labs ship the most AI releases?
Anthropic leads with 150 tracked releases, ahead of OpenAI (141) and Google (65).
| # | Lab / source | Releases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anthropic | 150 | |
| 2 | OpenAI | 141 | |
| 3 | 65 | ||
| 4 | Simon Willison | 56 | |
| 5 | Wes Roth | 48 | |
| 6 | NVIDIA | 36 | |
| 7 | Two Minute Papers | 35 | |
| 8 | Fireship | 31 | |
| 9 | Google DeepMind | 31 | |
| 10 | Sam Witteveen | 24 | |
| 11 | xAI | 23 | |
| 12 | Hugging Face | 20 |
Cite this
“Anthropic is the most-tracked AI source on AI/TLDR with 150 releases.” — AI/TLDR AI Release Index, https://ai-tldr.dev/stats/#lab-leaderboard, retrieved 2026-09-18.
What kinds of releases dominate?
Tools are the largest category (418), out of models (276), ecosystem (184) and articles (183).
How fast is AI shipping?
AI/TLDR is averaging 70 releases per week. 295 landed in the last 4 weeks — down 5% from the 4 weeks before (310).
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 70 new AI releases per week (12-week average).” — AI/TLDR AI Release Index, https://ai-tldr.dev/stats/#release-velocity, retrieved 2026-09-18.
How often does each lab ship?
Simon Willison 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 | Simon Willison | 2.7 | 56 |
| 2 | Riley Brown | 2.7 | 4 |
| 3 | 3.1 | 65 | |
| 4 | Matthew Berman | 3.2 | 7 |
| 5 | Wes Roth | 3.3 | 48 |
| 6 | Two Minute Papers | 4.8 | 35 |
| 7 | 1littlecoder | 5.3 | 17 |
| 8 | Fireship | 5.5 | 31 |
Cadence = mean days between a lab's consecutive verified release dates (labs with 4+ tracked releases).
Cite this
“Simon Willison 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 2026-09-18.
How big are the releases?
Most-starred open-source AI tools
OpenClaw leads the tracked open-source landscape with 390k GitHub stars.
| # | Tool | Category | Stars | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OpenClaw | Agents & Automation | 390k | |
| 2 | Superpowers | Agents & Automation | 288k | |
| 3 | Skills for Real Engineers | Agents & Automation | 265k | |
| 4 | ECC | Agents & Automation | 261k | |
| 5 | Hermes Agent | Agents & Automation | 247k | |
| 6 | DeepSeek Harness | Agents & Automation | 229k | |
| 7 | Karpathy Coding Guidelines | Agents & Automation | 214k | |
| 8 | opencode | AI Coding | 208k | |
| 9 | n8n | Agents & Automation | 205k | |
| 10 | Visual Studio Code | AI Coding | 193k | |
| 11 | AutoGPT | Agents & Automation | 187k | |
| 12 | MarkItDown | Retrieval & Knowledge (RAG) | 185k | |
| 13 | Firecrawl | Data & Labeling | 182k | |
| 14 | Ollama | Models & Inference | 181k | |
| 15 | Transformers | Models & Inference | 166k |
Cite this
“OpenClaw is the most-starred open-source AI tool tracked by AI/TLDR, with 390k GitHub stars.” — AI/TLDR AI Release Index, https://ai-tldr.dev/stats/#most-starred-tools, retrieved 2026-09-18.