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What developers actually pull

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 openai at 25.4M weekly downloads; the most-starred repo on the board is Ollama (175,668 ★). downloads include CI machines and mirrors — momentum, not headcount.

25.4M
openai
npm · weekly downloads
23.1M
@anthropic-ai/sdk
npm · weekly downloads
15.3M
@google/genai
npm · weekly downloads
15.1M
ai
npm · weekly downloads

updated 2026-07-08 · refreshed daily

01 · sdk downloads

the SDKs developers are installing

source: npm registry & PyPI weekly package downloads — includes CI machines and mirrors, so read as momentum, not headcount.

02 · oss momentum

the open-source AI leaderboard

the repos the AI world is starring right now. source: GitHub repository stars.

today’s board — baked in daily

#repostars
1
ollama/ollama
175,668
2
AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui
164,028
3
huggingface/transformers
162,351
4
open-webui/open-webui
144,600
5
langchain-ai/langchain
141,219
6
anthropics/claude-code
136,724
7
comfyanonymous/ComfyUI
119,783
8
ggml-org/llama.cpp
119,595

03 · open models

what the open-weights crowd is running

source: Hugging Face — model downloads (last 30 days) and likes.

most downloaded (30d) — baked in daily

#modeldownloadslikes
1sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2247.9M5k
2cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L6-v281.7M276
3google-bert/bert-base-uncased66.3M2.7k
4BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.562.9M508
5sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v248.4M1.3k

wondering what regular people search for instead? that’s the tracker hub and the race.