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.

📅 Jun 10, 2026 02:03

📊 100 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:

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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%

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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 100 Assets

#	Asset	Source	Score	Signals
1	Qwen3 0.6B transformers	🤗 HF	100	21.6M downloads1.3K likesTrending now
2	Qwen3 4B transformers	🤗 HF	73.4	15.9M downloads631 likesTrending now
3	Gpt2 transformers	🤗 HF	63.2	13.7M downloads3.3K likesTrending now
4	Qwen2.5 3B Instruct transformers	🤗 HF	61.7	13.4M downloads493 likesTrending now
5	Qwen2.5 7B Instruct transformers	🤗 HF	54.9	11.9M downloads1.3K likesTrending now
6	Deepseek V3.2 transformers	🤗 HF	51.4	11.1M downloads1.4K likes
7	Qwen3 8B transformers	🤗 HF	50.6	11M downloads1.1K likesTrending now
8	Qwen2.5 1.5B Instruc transformers	🤗 HF	49.1	10.6M downloads734 likesTrending now
9	Opt 125M transformers	🤗 HF	48.7	10.5M downloads265 likesTrending now
10	Llama 3.1 8B Instruc transformers	🤗 HF	46.4	10M downloads6K likesTrending now
11	Qwen3 4B Instruct 25 transformers	🤗 HF	43	9.3M downloads844 likes
12	Whisperkit Coreml whisperkit	🤗 HF	39.7	8.6M downloadsTrending now
13	Speaker Diarization pyannote-audio	🤗 HF	38.8	8.4M downloads2.2K likesTrending now
14	Nsfw Image Detection transformers	🤗 HF	37.3	8.1M downloads1.1K likesTrending now
15	Llama 3.2 1B Instruc transformers	🤗 HF	37.1	8M downloads1.5K likesTrending now
16	Whisper Large V3 Tur transformers	🤗 HF	36.7	7.9M downloads3.1K likesTrending now
17	Gpt Oss 20B transformers	🤗 HF	36.1	7.8M downloads4.6K likes
18	Gemma 3 270M transformers	🤗 HF	36.1	7.8M downloads1K likesTrending now
19	Qwen3 1.7B transformers	🤗 HF	35.2	7.6M downloads450 likes
20	Tiny Qwen2Forcausall transformers	🤗 HF	34	7.4M downloads
21	Mobilenetv3 Small 10 timm	🤗 HF	26.4	5.7M downloadsTrending now
22	Whisper Large V3 transformers	🤗 HF	23.4	5.1M downloads5.8K likesTrending now
23	Vit Base Patch16 224 transformers	🤗 HF	21.9	4.7M downloads969 likesTrending now
24	Fairface Age Image D transformers	🤗 HF	20	4.3M downloadsTrending now
25	Whisper Base transformers	🤗 HF	19.9	4.3M downloads271 likesTrending now
26	Convnextv2 Nano.fcma timm	🤗 HF	16.2	3.5M downloadsTrending now
27	Mobilevit Small transformers	🤗 HF	15.8	3.4M downloadsTrending now
28	Wav2Vec2 Large Xlsr transformers	🤗 HF	15.1	3.3M downloadsTrending now
29	Resnet50.A1 In1K timm	🤗 HF	13	2.8M downloadsTrending now
30	Wav2Vec2 Large Xlsr transformers	🤗 HF	12.6	2.7M downloadsTrending now
31	Speaker Diarization pyannote-audio	🤗 HF	12.4	2.7M downloads515 likesTrending now
32	Voice Activity Detec pyannote-audio	🤗 HF	12.3	2.7M downloads235 likesTrending now
33	Mms 300M 1130 Forced transformers	🤗 HF	11.9	2.6M downloadsTrending now
34	Whisper Small transformers	🤗 HF	11.8	2.5M downloads563 likes
35	Wav2Vec2 Large Xlsr transformers	🤗 HF	10.9	2.4M downloads
36	Wav2Vec2 Large Xlsr transformers	🤗 HF	10.5	2.3M downloads
37	Wav2Vec2 Large Xlsr transformers	🤗 HF	9.8	2.1M downloads
38	Mms 1B All transformers	🤗 HF	9.1	2M downloads
39	Qwen3 Asr 1.7B safetensors	🤗 HF	9	1.9M downloads823 likes
40	Resnet18.A1 In1K timm	🤗 HF	7.9	1.7M downloadsTrending now
41	Stable Diffusion V1 diffusers	🤗 HF	7.9	1.7M downloads1.1K likesTrending now
42	Stable Diffusion Xl diffusers	🤗 HF	6.7	1.4M downloads7.8K likesTrending now
43	Nsfw Image Detection timm	🤗 HF	6.3	1.4M downloads
44	Gender Classificatio transformers	🤗 HF	6.3	1.4M downloadsTrending now
45	Vit Face Expression transformers	🤗 HF	5.8	1.3M downloads
46	Vit Base Nsfw Detect transformers.js	🤗 HF	5.4	1.2M downloadsTrending now
47	Test Resnet.r160 In1 timm	🤗 HF	5.1	1.1M downloads
48	Hunyuanimage 3.0 transformers	🤗 HF	4.9	1.1M downloads1.1K likesTrending now
49	Efficientnet B0.Ra I timm	🤗 HF	4.8	1M downloads
50	Flux.1 Dev diffusers	🤗 HF	4.6	984K downloads13.1K likesTrending now
51	Ecc llm	⚙ GitHub	1.1	197.8K stars30.4K forks
52	Autogpt llm	⚙ GitHub	1.1	184.6K stars46.2K forks
53	Everything Claude Co llm	⚙ GitHub	1.1	186.5K stars28.9K forks
54	Hermes Agent ai-agent	⚙ GitHub	1	172K stars28.9K forks
55	Ollama llm	⚙ GitHub	1	172.6K stars16.3K forks
56	Stable Diffusion Web stable-diffusion	⚙ GitHub	1	163.3K stars30.4K forks
57	Transformers llm	⚙ GitHub	0.9	161K stars33.3K forks
58	Prompts.chat llm	⚙ GitHub	0.9	163K stars21.2K forks
59	Langflow generative-ai	⚙ GitHub	0.8	148.9K stars9.1K forks
60	Dify llm	⚙ GitHub	0.8	143.1K stars22.5K forks
61	Langchain generative-ai	⚙ GitHub	0.8	137.9K stars22.8K forks
62	Open Webui llm	⚙ GitHub	0.8	139.1K stars19.9K forks
63	Generative Ai For Be generative-ai	⚙ GitHub	0.7	111.5K stars59.8K forks
64	Firecrawl llm	⚙ GitHub	0.7	125.9K stars7.6K forks
65	Comfyui stable-diffusion	⚙ GitHub	0.6	114.8K stars13.4K forks
66	Llms From Scratch generative-ai	⚙ GitHub	0.6	96.2K stars14.7K forks
67	Prompt Engineering G generative-ai	⚙ GitHub	0.4	75.1K stars8.1K forks
68	Ai Agents For Beginn generative-ai	⚙ GitHub	0.4	65.9K stars21.8K forks
69	Learn Claude Code ai-agent	⚙ GitHub	0.4	63.4K stars10.4K forks
70	Ruflo ai-agent	⚙ GitHub	0.3	56.2K stars6.4K forks
71	Open Design generative-ai	⚙ GitHub	0.3	55.1K stars6.2K forks
72	Daily Stock Analysis ai-agent	⚙ GitHub	0.3	39.3K stars38K forks
73	Minimind large-language-model	⚙ GitHub	0.3	50.8K stars6.5K forks
74	Career Ops ai-agent	⚙ GitHub	0.3	47.7K stars9.9K forks
75	Cowagent ai-agent	⚙ GitHub	0.3	44.9K stars10.2K forks
76	Cherry Studio ai-agent	⚙ GitHub	0.3	46.5K stars4.4K forks
77	Localai stable-diffusion	⚙ GitHub	0.3	46.5K stars4.1K forks
78	Chatgpt On Wechat ai-agent	⚙ GitHub	0.3	43K stars9.9K forks
79	Nanobot ai-agent	⚙ GitHub	0.3	43.3K stars7.7K forks
80	System Prompts Leaks generative-ai	⚙ GitHub	0.2	40.9K stars6.8K forks
81	Diffusers stable-diffusion	⚙ GitHub	0.2	33.7K stars7K forks
82	Langgraph generative-ai	⚙ GitHub	0.2	33.3K stars5.6K forks
83	Copilotkit ai-agent	⚙ GitHub	0.2	31.8K stars4.1K forks
84	Openclaude ai-agent	⚙ GitHub	0.2	28K stars8.6K forks
85	Awesome Generative A generative-ai	⚙ GitHub	0.2	26.9K stars5.6K forks
86	Invokeai stable-diffusion	⚙ GitHub	0.2	27.3K stars2.9K forks
87	Scrapegraph Ai large-language-model	⚙ GitHub	0.1	26.4K stars2.5K forks
88	Strix generative-ai	⚙ GitHub	0.1	25.5K stars2.8K forks
89	Cli ai-agent	⚙ GitHub	0.1	26.1K stars1.4K forks
90	Haystack generative-ai	⚙ GitHub	0.1	25.1K stars2.8K forks
91	Aionui ai-agent	⚙ GitHub	0.1	23.9K stars2.1K forks
92	Iopaint stable-diffusion	⚙ GitHub	0.1	23.1K stars2.5K forks
93	Activepieces ai-agent	⚙ GitHub	0.1	22K stars3.6K forks
94	Agent Reach ai-agent	⚙ GitHub	0.1	16.9K stars1.5K forks
95	Stable Diffusion Web stable-diffusion	⚙ GitHub	0.1	15.9K stars2.6K forks
96	Diffusionbee Stable stable-diffusion	⚙ GitHub	0.1	13.6K stars
97	Pocketflow Tutorial large-language-model	⚙ GitHub	0.1	12.3K stars1.4K forks
98	Awesome Ai Painting stable-diffusion	⚙ GitHub	0.1	11.8K stars
99	Pocketflow large-language-model	⚙ GitHub	0.1	10.7K stars1.2K forks
100	Paper2Gui stable-diffusion	⚙ GitHub	0.1	10.7K stars

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.