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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.

📅 Sep 25, 2026 01:09
📊 50 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%
🕐
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 50 Assets
#AssetSourceScoreSignals
1
Qwen3 0.6B
transformers
🤗 HF
100
27.8M downloads1.7K likesTrending now
2
Mobilenetv3 Small 10
timm
🤗 HF
70.6
19.6M downloadsTrending now
3
Wav2Vec2 Large Xlsr
transformers
🤗 HF
62.5
17.3M downloadsTrending now
4
Gpt2
transformers
🤗 HF
55.4
15.4M downloads4.2K likesTrending now
5
Qwen3 8B
transformers
🤗 HF
45.1
12.5M downloads2K likesTrending now
6
Tiny Qwen2Forcausall
transformers
🤗 HF
44.2
12.3M downloadsTrending now
7
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B
transformers
🤗 HF
43.4
12M downloads1.1K likesTrending now
8
Whisperkit Coreml
whisperkit
🤗 HF
40.3
11.2M downloads230 likesTrending now
9
Qwen3 32B
transformers
🤗 HF
34.8
9.7M downloads726 likes
10
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
transformers
🤗 HF
34.8
9.7M downloads2.3K likesTrending now
11
Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruc
transformers
🤗 HF
31.5
8.7M downloads636 likesTrending now
12
Deepseek R1
transformers
🤗 HF
30
8.3M downloads13.6K likes
13
Vit Base Patch16 224
transformers
🤗 HF
28.7
8M downloads1K likesTrending now
14
Qwen2.5 1.5B Instruc
transformers
🤗 HF
28.4
7.9M downloads853 likesTrending now
15
Qwen3.6 35B A3B Nvfp
Model Optimizer
🤗 HF
27.2
7.6M downloads631 likesTrending now
16
Speaker Diarization
pyannote-audio
🤗 HF
27.2
7.5M downloads3.9K likesTrending now
17
Llama 3.2 1B Instruc
transformers
🤗 HF
26.9
7.5M downloads1.7K likesTrending now
18
Otel 2.0 Llm 31B It
transformers
🤗 HF
26.7
7.4M downloads
19
Opt 125M
transformers
🤗 HF
25.3
7M downloads323 likesTrending now
20
Qwen3 4B
transformers
🤗 HF
25
6.9M downloads706 likesTrending now
21
Qwen2.5 3B Instruct
transformers
🤗 HF
24.6
6.8M downloads562 likes
22
Whisper Large V3 Tur
transformers
🤗 HF
23.5
6.5M downloads3.4K likesTrending now
23
Wav2Vec2 Large Xlsr
transformers
🤗 HF
21.3
5.9M downloadsTrending now
24
Speaker Diarization
pyannote-audio
🤗 HF
19.8
5.5M downloads2.1K likesTrending now
25
Whisper Large V3
transformers
🤗 HF
17
4.7M downloads6.4K likesTrending now
26
Wav2Vec2 Large Xlsr
transformers
🤗 HF
15.6
4.3M downloadsTrending now
27
Qwen3 Asr 1.7B
safetensors
🤗 HF
14.4
4M downloads1.1K likes
28
Voice Activity Detec
pyannote-audio
🤗 HF
14.3
4M downloads241 likes
29
Qwen3 Asr 0.6B
safetensors
🤗 HF
14.1
3.9M downloads339 likes
30
Whisper Base
transformers
🤗 HF
13.1
3.6M downloads285 likes
31
Stable Diffusion Xl
diffusers
🤗 HF
12.7
3.5M downloads8.2K likesTrending now
32
Wav2Vec2 Large Xlsr
transformers
🤗 HF
12.6
3.5M downloadsTrending now
33
Faster Whisper Small
ctranslate2
🤗 HF
11.2
3.1M downloadsTrending now
34
Wav2Vec2 Large Xlsr
transformers
🤗 HF
11.2
3.1M downloadsTrending now
35
Wav2Vec2 Indonesian
transformers
🤗 HF
11.1
3.1M downloadsTrending now
36
Whisper Small
transformers
🤗 HF
10.5
2.9M downloads602 likesTrending now
37
Nsfw Image Detection
transformers
🤗 HF
9.2
2.5M downloads1.2K likesTrending now
38
Resnet18.A1 In1K
timm
🤗 HF
7.1
2M downloadsTrending now
39
Tf Efficientnetv2 S.
timm
🤗 HF
6.5
1.8M downloadsTrending now
40
Stable Diffusion V1
diffusers
🤗 HF
6.5
1.8M downloads1.3K likesTrending now
41
Resnet50.A1 In1K
timm
🤗 HF
6.3
1.7M downloadsTrending now
42
Resnet 50
transformers
🤗 HF
5.6
1.6M downloads506 likes
43
Efficientnet B3.Ra2
timm
🤗 HF
5.3
1.5M downloadsTrending now
44
Gender Classificatio
transformers
🤗 HF
5.1
1.4M downloadsTrending now
45
Mit B2
transformers
🤗 HF
4.8
1.3M downloads
46
Resnet50.Ram In1K
timm
🤗 HF
4.8
1.3M downloads
47
Resnet18.A3 In1K
timm
🤗 HF
3.8
1M downloads
48
Sdxl Turbo
diffusers
🤗 HF
3.5
977.6K downloads2.6K likesTrending now
49
Vit Base Nsfw Detect
base_model:google/vit-base-p
🤗 HF
3.5
958.9K downloadsTrending now
50
Dreamshaper 7
diffusers
🤗 HF
3.2
898.7K downloadsTrending now
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.