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Company#15.3x usual38GoogleThe search, cloud, Android and Gemini company, part of Alphabet. Why now: Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBOCompany#25.3x usual32AppleThe maker of the iPhone, the Mac and Apple Intelligence. Why now: Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac StudioAI product#34.3x usual26ChatGPTOpenAI's AI assistant. Why now: Understanding ChatGPT WorkDeveloper tool#43.5x usual26RustA fast, memory-safe systems programming language. Why now: Apache Iggy, a message streaming platform in Rust, graduates to an Apache TLPAI product#52.7x usual24Claude CodeAnthropic's coding agent that works in the terminal and the editor. Why now: Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto ModeDeveloper tool#6New23Tailwind CSSA utility-first CSS framework. Why now: shadcn-ui/cn: cn is a new engine for Tailwind class merging and conflict resolution.Developer tool#72.3x usual21LinuxThe open-source operating system kernel behind most servers and Android. Why now: Run macOS Software on LinuxDeveloper tool#83.8x usual19ChromeGoogle's web browser. Why now: Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBOHardware#92.4x usual17MacApple's line of personal computers. Why now: Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac StudioHardware#10New17Google TPUGoogle's own AI chips. Why now: ARahim3/kaggle-tpu-lab: Frontier-class open models on a free Kaggle TPU v5e-8: GLM-5.3-Flash 320B MoE (~64 tok/s, our…AI product#11New17JAXGoogle's library for high-performance machine learning research. Why now: ARahim3/kaggle-tpu-lab: Frontier-class open models on a free Kaggle TPU v5e-8: GLM-5.3-Flash 320B MoE (~64 tok/s, our…Model#12New17Gemini 2.5 FlashA version of Google's Gemini models. Why now: BenyRonald77/uajy-academic-rag-chatbot: Production-grade RAG chatbot for Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta academic…Developer tool#132.7x usual17MCPModel Context Protocol, an open standard for connecting AI models to tools and data. Why now: 2akouwu/reverify: Stop your AI from making things up, it proposes, deterministic tools decide, every claim checked…Model#14New16Claude Opus 5A version of Anthropic's Claude Opus, its largest models. Why now: Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto ModeAI product#151.7x usual15CodexOpenAI's coding agent. Why now: Unlimited Codex, Inside ChatGPTModel#163.0x usual15Qwen3.8A version of Alibaba's Qwen open-weight models. Why now: ARahim3/kaggle-tpu-lab: Frontier-class open models on a free Kaggle TPU v5e-8: GLM-5.3-Flash 320B MoE (~64 tok/s, our…AI product#173.0x usual15RAGRetrieval-augmented generation: a model answers from documents fetched for the question. Why now: BenyRonald77/uajy-academic-rag-chatbot: Production-grade RAG chatbot for Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta academic…Model#182.7x usual14GLM-5.3 FlashA version of Z.ai's GLM models. Why now: ARahim3/kaggle-tpu-lab: Frontier-class open models on a free Kaggle TPU v5e-8: GLM-5.3-Flash 320B MoE (~64 tok/s, our…Developer tool#192.5x usual14OpenCodeAn open-source AI coding agent for the terminal. Why now: ARahim3/kaggle-tpu-lab: Frontier-class open models on a free Kaggle TPU v5e-8: GLM-5.3-Flash 320B MoE (~64 tok/s, our…Model#20New12Qwen2A version of Alibaba's Qwen open-weight models. Why now: Puro-2B: Poor Lab's Qwen2-1.5B Trained on RTX 5090 within $5090
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1GoogleThe search, cloud, Android and Gemini company, part of Alphabet. Why now: Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBOCompany5.3x usual38
2AppleThe maker of the iPhone, the Mac and Apple Intelligence. Why now: Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac StudioCompany5.3x usual32
3ChatGPTOpenAI's AI assistant. Why now: Understanding ChatGPT WorkAI product4.3x usual26
4RustA fast, memory-safe systems programming language. Why now: Apache Iggy, a message streaming platform in Rust, graduates to an Apache TLPDeveloper tool3.5x usual26
5Claude CodeAnthropic's coding agent that works in the terminal and the editor. Why now: Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto ModeAI product2.7x usual24
6Tailwind CSSA utility-first CSS framework. Why now: shadcn-ui/cn: cn is a new engine for Tailwind class merging and conflict resolution.Developer toolNew23
7LinuxThe open-source operating system kernel behind most servers and Android. Why now: Run macOS Software on LinuxDeveloper tool2.3x usual21
8ChromeGoogle's web browser. Why now: Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBODeveloper tool3.8x usual19
9MacApple's line of personal computers. Why now: Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac StudioHardware2.4x usual17
10Google TPUGoogle's own AI chips. Why now: ARahim3/kaggle-tpu-lab: Frontier-class open models on a free Kaggle TPU v5e-8: GLM-5.3-Flash 320B MoE (~64 tok/s, our…HardwareNew17
11JAXGoogle's library for high-performance machine learning research. Why now: ARahim3/kaggle-tpu-lab: Frontier-class open models on a free Kaggle TPU v5e-8: GLM-5.3-Flash 320B MoE (~64 tok/s, our…AI productNew17
12Gemini 2.5 FlashA version of Google's Gemini models. Why now: BenyRonald77/uajy-academic-rag-chatbot: Production-grade RAG chatbot for Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta academic…ModelNew17
13MCPModel Context Protocol, an open standard for connecting AI models to tools and data. Why now: 2akouwu/reverify: Stop your AI from making things up, it proposes, deterministic tools decide, every claim checked…Developer tool2.7x usual17
14Claude Opus 5A version of Anthropic's Claude Opus, its largest models. Why now: Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto ModeModelNew16
15CodexOpenAI's coding agent. Why now: Unlimited Codex, Inside ChatGPTAI product1.7x usual15
16Qwen3.8A version of Alibaba's Qwen open-weight models. Why now: ARahim3/kaggle-tpu-lab: Frontier-class open models on a free Kaggle TPU v5e-8: GLM-5.3-Flash 320B MoE (~64 tok/s, our…Model3.0x usual15
17RAGRetrieval-augmented generation: a model answers from documents fetched for the question. Why now: BenyRonald77/uajy-academic-rag-chatbot: Production-grade RAG chatbot for Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta academic…AI product3.0x usual15
18GLM-5.3 FlashA version of Z.ai's GLM models. Why now: ARahim3/kaggle-tpu-lab: Frontier-class open models on a free Kaggle TPU v5e-8: GLM-5.3-Flash 320B MoE (~64 tok/s, our…Model2.7x usual14
19OpenCodeAn open-source AI coding agent for the terminal. Why now: ARahim3/kaggle-tpu-lab: Frontier-class open models on a free Kaggle TPU v5e-8: GLM-5.3-Flash 320B MoE (~64 tok/s, our…Developer tool2.5x usual14
20Qwen2A version of Alibaba's Qwen open-weight models. Why now: Puro-2B: Poor Lab's Qwen2-1.5B Trained on RTX 5090 within $5090ModelNew12

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