developer signal · ai tracker
SDK downloads, open-source momentum and open-model downloads — the build-side of the AI race, refreshed daily.
Search interest is what people look for — this page is what developers actually pull. This week the busiest AI package on npm is @anthropic-ai/sdk at 53.7M weekly downloads; the most-starred repo on the board is Ollama (181,997 ★). downloads include CI machines and mirrors — momentum, not headcount.
updated 2026-10-05 · search-share data through Oct 2, 2026 · refreshed daily
01 · sdk downloads
source: npm registry & PyPI weekly package downloads — includes CI machines and mirrors, so read as momentum, not headcount.
02 · oss momentum
the repos the AI world is starring right now. source: GitHub repository stars.
| # | repo | stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ollama/ollama | 181,997 ★ |
| 2 | huggingface/transformers | 166,885 ★ |
| 3 | AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui | 165,175 ★ |
| 4 | open-webui/open-webui | 153,707 ★ |
| 5 | anthropics/claude-code | 148,797 ★ |
| 6 | langchain-ai/langchain | 147,351 ★ |
| 7 | comfyanonymous/ComfyUI | 135,725 ★ |
| 8 | ggml-org/llama.cpp | 130,044 ★ |
03 · open models
source: Hugging Face — model downloads (last 30 days) and likes.
| # | model | downloads | likes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2 | 235.7M | 6.2k |
| 2 | cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L6-v2 | 84.1M | 354 |
| 3 | BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5 | 62.6M | 597 |
| 4 | sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 | 51M | 1.4k |
| 5 | google/electra-base-discriminator | 45.9M | 191 |
wondering what regular people search for instead? that’s the tracker hub and the race.