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Demo desk. Every organisation, source and story here is fictional and frozen at the demo clock. Nothing on this site is current reporting. Demo clock: Thu 12 Mar 2026, 09:00 UTC, frozen. About the demo

Topics

Where the heat is, by topic

A topic's heat is the sum of the heat of its events at the demo clock. An event can sit in more than one topic.

Sorted by heat at the demo clock. Change is against 24 hours earlier.
TopicEventsHeat24 h changeLast 24 h
EvaluationBenchmarks, leaderboards, test contamination and how results are measured.264.0+47.9
Open weightsModels whose weights can be downloaded, and the licences that govern them.251.3+51.3
Model releasesNew models, sizes and versions, and what changed in them.133.9+33.9
ResearchPapers and methods, before they become products.121.6+11.6
Developer toolsAPIs, SDKs and tooling for people building with models.119.7+19.7
Speech and audioRecognition, synthesis and audio models.119.7+19.7
Data and licensingDatasets, their terms, and who may train on what.117.4+17.4
HardwareChips and systems for training and inference.18.9+8.9
Policy and public sectorRules, consultations and public bodies using or governing AI.15.5−5.6
RoboticsPhysical systems driven by learned models.10.0−5.7