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AI Pulse Index · Methodology Report

How We Rank AI Models & Tools

A transparent breakdown of every signal, weight, and calculation behind each position in the AI Pulse Index.

📅 Jul 27, 2026 12:48
📊 98 assets
🔄 Every 12 hours
📈What is the AI Pulse Index?

The AI Pulse Index measures momentum in the AI ecosystem — how fast projects are growing relative to their existing size. A new model gaining traction quickly can outrank an older model with far higher absolute numbers but stagnant growth.

How Rankings Are Calculated

Each asset receives a Momentum Score from three weighted signals:

Star Growth Rate
New stars in last 7 days ÷ total stars. Rewards acceleration, not just scale. A repo with 2K stars gaining 500 new (+25%) beats one with 500K gaining 5K (+1%).
Weight: 40%
Download Growth Rate
Downloads this period ÷ downloads previous period. A model growing from 10K → 15K (+50%) ranks above one growing from 1M → 1.1M (+10%). Velocity matters.
Weight: 40%
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Recency Factor
Boost for recently trending assets. Score = (1 − days since activity ÷ 30) × 100. Prevents older established projects from blocking emerging innovations permanently.
Weight: 20%

All scores are normalized to 0–100 against the highest score in the current dataset, then the Global Index = top-50 normalized scores + base 1000.

🏆Current Rankings — All 98 Assets
#AssetSourceScoreSignals
1
Qwen3 0.6B
transformers
🤗 HF
100
28.5M downloads1.5K likesTrending now
2
Mobilenetv3 Small 10
timm
🤗 HF
67.8
19.3M downloadsTrending now
3
Qwen3 8B
transformers
🤗 HF
58.8
16.8M downloads1.2K likesTrending now
4
Opt 125M
transformers
🤗 HF
58.3
16.6M downloads284 likesTrending now
5
Tiny Qwen2Forcausall
transformers
🤗 HF
54.7
15.6M downloadsTrending now
6
Gpt2
transformers
🤗 HF
48.5
13.8M downloads3.4K likesTrending now
7
Qwen2.5 1.5B Instruc
transformers
🤗 HF
46.7
13.3M downloads783 likesTrending now
8
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
transformers
🤗 HF
42.1
12M downloads1.4K likesTrending now
9
Llama 3.2 1B Instruc
transformers
🤗 HF
36
10.3M downloads1.5K likesTrending now
10
Qwen3 32B
transformers
🤗 HF
35.6
10.1M downloads722 likesTrending now
11
Qwen3.6 35B A3B Nvfp
Model Optimizer
🤗 HF
33.6
9.6M downloads503 likesTrending now
12
Qwen3 4B
transformers
🤗 HF
33.1
9.4M downloads653 likes
13
Deepseek R1
transformers
🤗 HF
32.9
9.4M downloads13.5K likesTrending now
14
Speaker Diarization
pyannote-audio
🤗 HF
30.6
8.7M downloads2.9K likesTrending now
15
Qwen2.5 3B Instruct
transformers
🤗 HF
30.2
8.6M downloads511 likes
16
Llama 3.1 8B Instruc
transformers
🤗 HF
29.9
8.5M downloads6.3K likes
17
Gemma 3 270M
transformers
🤗 HF
29.5
8.4M downloads1K likes
18
Whisper Large V3 Tur
transformers
🤗 HF
29.4
8.4M downloads3.2K likesTrending now
19
Whisperkit Coreml
whisperkit
🤗 HF
27.4
7.8M downloadsTrending now
20
Nsfw Image Detection
transformers
🤗 HF
23.9
6.8M downloads1.1K likesTrending now
21
Whisper Base
transformers
🤗 HF
22.8
6.5M downloads279 likesTrending now
22
Whisper Large V3
transformers
🤗 HF
20.8
5.9M downloads6K likesTrending now
23
Speaker Diarization
pyannote-audio
🤗 HF
18.4
5.2M downloads860 likesTrending now
24
Fairface Age Image D
transformers
🤗 HF
16.4
4.7M downloadsTrending now
25
Vit Base Patch16 224
transformers
🤗 HF
16.2
4.6M downloads988 likesTrending now
26
Wav2Vec2 Large Xlsr
transformers
🤗 HF
13.6
3.9M downloads
27
Wav2Vec2 Large Xlsr
transformers
🤗 HF
13
3.7M downloadsTrending now
28
Wav2Vec2 Indonesian
transformers
🤗 HF
12.9
3.7M downloads
29
Wav2Vec2 Large Xlsr
transformers
🤗 HF
12.9
3.7M downloads
30
Wav2Vec2 Large Xlsr
transformers
🤗 HF
12.5
3.6M downloads
31
Wav2Vec2 Large Xlsr
transformers
🤗 HF
12.1
3.4M downloadsTrending now
32
Voice Activity Detec
pyannote-audio
🤗 HF
11.9
3.4M downloads239 likesTrending now
33
Whisper Small
transformers
🤗 HF
11.1
3.2M downloads575 likesTrending now
34
Resnet50.A1 In1K
timm
🤗 HF
10.7
3.1M downloadsTrending now
35
Mms 300M 1130 Forced
transformers
🤗 HF
9.2
2.6M downloads
36
Wav2Vec2 Large Xlsr
transformers
🤗 HF
8.9
2.5M downloadsTrending now
37
Resnet18.A1 In1K
timm
🤗 HF
6.6
1.9M downloadsTrending now
38
Stable Diffusion V1
diffusers
🤗 HF
5.9
1.7M downloads1.2K likesTrending now
39
Gender Classificatio
transformers
🤗 HF
5.4
1.5M downloadsTrending now
40
Stable Diffusion Xl
diffusers
🤗 HF
5.2
1.5M downloads8K likesTrending now
41
Tf Efficientnetv2 S.
timm
🤗 HF
4.7
1.3M downloadsTrending now
42
Z Image Turbo
diffusers
🤗 HF
4
1.1M downloads5K likesTrending now
43
Convnextv2 Nano.fcma
timm
🤗 HF
3.9
1.1M downloads
44
Efficientnet B0.Ra I
timm
🤗 HF
3.8
1.1M downloadsTrending now
45
Sdxl Turbo
diffusers
🤗 HF
3.7
1.1M downloads2.6K likesTrending now
46
Repvgg A0.Rvgg In1K
timm
🤗 HF
3.6
1M downloads
47
Resnet 50
transformers
🤗 HF
3.6
1M downloads499 likesTrending now
48
Rorshark Vit Base
transformers
🤗 HF
3.3
953.9K downloadsTrending now
49
Mobilevit Small
transformers
🤗 HF
3.3
946.9K downloads
50
Electra Large Discri
transformers
🤗 HF
3.2
914.3K downloadsTrending now
51
Ecc
llm
⚙ GitHub
0.9
197.8K stars30.4K forks
52
Autogpt
llm
⚙ GitHub
0.8
184.6K stars46.2K forks
53
Hermes Agent
ai-agent
⚙ GitHub
0.8
172K stars28.9K forks
54
Ollama
llm
⚙ GitHub
0.7
172.6K stars16.3K forks
55
Stable Diffusion Web
stable-diffusion
⚙ GitHub
0.7
163.3K stars30.4K forks
56
Transformers
llm
⚙ GitHub
0.7
161K stars33.3K forks
57
Prompts.chat
llm
⚙ GitHub
0.7
163K stars21.2K forks
58
Langflow
generative-ai
⚙ GitHub
0.6
148.9K stars9.1K forks
59
Dify
llm
⚙ GitHub
0.6
143.1K stars22.5K forks
60
Langchain
generative-ai
⚙ GitHub
0.6
137.9K stars22.8K forks
61
Open Webui
llm
⚙ GitHub
0.6
139.1K stars19.9K forks
62
Generative Ai For Be
generative-ai
⚙ GitHub
0.6
111.5K stars59.8K forks
63
Firecrawl
llm
⚙ GitHub
0.5
125.9K stars7.6K forks
64
Comfyui
stable-diffusion
⚙ GitHub
0.5
114.8K stars13.4K forks
65
Llms From Scratch
generative-ai
⚙ GitHub
0.4
96.2K stars14.7K forks
66
Prompt Engineering G
generative-ai
⚙ GitHub
0.3
75.1K stars8.1K forks
67
Ai Agents For Beginn
generative-ai
⚙ GitHub
0.3
65.9K stars21.8K forks
68
Learn Claude Code
ai-agent
⚙ GitHub
0.3
63.4K stars10.4K forks
69
Ruflo
ai-agent
⚙ GitHub
0.2
56.2K stars6.4K forks
70
Open Design
generative-ai
⚙ GitHub
0.2
55.1K stars6.2K forks
71
Daily Stock Analysis
ai-agent
⚙ GitHub
0.2
39.3K stars38K forks
72
Minimind
large-language-model
⚙ GitHub
0.2
50.8K stars6.5K forks
73
Career Ops
ai-agent
⚙ GitHub
0.2
47.7K stars9.9K forks
74
Cowagent
ai-agent
⚙ GitHub
0.2
44.9K stars10.2K forks
75
Cherry Studio
ai-agent
⚙ GitHub
0.2
46.5K stars4.4K forks
76
Localai
stable-diffusion
⚙ GitHub
0.2
46.5K stars4.1K forks
77
Nanobot
ai-agent
⚙ GitHub
0.2
43.3K stars7.7K forks
78
System Prompts Leaks
generative-ai
⚙ GitHub
0.2
40.9K stars6.8K forks
79
Diffusers
stable-diffusion
⚙ GitHub
0.2
33.7K stars7K forks
80
Langgraph
generative-ai
⚙ GitHub
0.1
33.3K stars5.6K forks
81
Copilotkit
ai-agent
⚙ GitHub
0.1
31.8K stars4.1K forks
82
Openclaude
ai-agent
⚙ GitHub
0.1
28K stars8.6K forks
83
Awesome Generative A
generative-ai
⚙ GitHub
0.1
26.9K stars5.6K forks
84
Invokeai
stable-diffusion
⚙ GitHub
0.1
27.3K stars2.9K forks
85
Scrapegraph Ai
large-language-model
⚙ GitHub
0.1
26.4K stars2.5K forks
86
Iopaint
stable-diffusion
⚙ GitHub
0.1
23.1K stars2.5K forks
87
Stable Diffusion Web
stable-diffusion
⚙ GitHub
0.1
15.9K stars2.6K forks
88
Diffusionbee Stable
stable-diffusion
⚙ GitHub
0.1
13.6K stars
89
Pocketflow Tutorial
large-language-model
⚙ GitHub
0.1
12.3K stars1.4K forks
90
Awesome Ai Painting
stable-diffusion
⚙ GitHub
0
11.8K stars
91
Pocketflow
large-language-model
⚙ GitHub
0
10.7K stars1.2K forks
92
Paper2Gui
stable-diffusion
⚙ GitHub
0
10.7K stars
93
Kag
large-language-model
⚙ GitHub
0
Consistent
94
Rig
large-language-model
⚙ GitHub
0
Consistent
95
Internlm
large-language-model
⚙ GitHub
0
Consistent
96
Opencompass
large-language-model
⚙ GitHub
0
Consistent
97
Atomic Agents
large-language-model
⚙ GitHub
0
Consistent
98
Enchanted
large-language-model
⚙ GitHub
0
Consistent
Limitations: Relies on public data from GitHub and Hugging Face. Does not capture private/enterprise adoption. Updated every 12 hours with ~1–2hr latency. Index version: v1.0.