Trendingby GlyphAI agents
Rising · emerged March 2023 · high October 2026 · +2% on the month before · 735 mentions on Trending in 14 days
Models that plan and act in steps, calling tools and other services until a task is done. Named by Toran Bruce Richards: Auto-GPT: an autonomous GPT-4 experiment (Mar 30, 2023). Also called AI agent, Agentic AI, Autonomous agents, LLM agents, Multi-agent systems.
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Signals
Hacker News stories, last 12 months7,693 stories, +235% on the 12 months before
arXiv papers, last 12 months8,112 papers, +184% on the 12 months before
Wikipedia views, October 202635,369, +3% on a year beforeProduct releases naming it2,337 since Feb 19, 2026GitHub repositories319,128Funding rounds naming it116, $12.8B in allConferences about it20| Signal | Reads as | |
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| Hacker News stories, last 12 months7,693 stories, +235% on the 12 months before | 7,693 stories, +235% on the 12 months before | Adoption |
| arXiv papers, last 12 months8,112 papers, +184% on the 12 months before | 8,112 papers, +184% on the 12 months before | Adoption |
| Wikipedia views, October 202635,369, +3% on a year before | 35,369, +3% on a year before | Adoption |
| Product releases naming it2,337 since Feb 19, 2026 | 2,337 since Feb 19, 2026 | Adoption |
| GitHub repositories319,128 | 319,128 | Adoption |
| Funding rounds naming it116, $12.8B in all | 116, $12.8B in all | Adoption |
| Conferences about it20 | 20 | Adoption |
Companies
| Name | Mentions |
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| 197 | |
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Releases
2,337 releases since Feb 19, 2026
Web Search now available on Kiro in AWS GovCloud (US)AWS| Name | |
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| Oct 31, 20269 days ago | |
| Oct 30, 202610 days ago | |
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| Web Search now available on Kiro in AWS GovCloud (US)AWS · Oct 30, 2026 10 days ago | Oct 30, 202610 days ago |
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Papers
GitHub projects
319,128 repositoriesfirecrawl/firecrawl🔥 Supercharge your AI agents with data from the web and beyond. A web data API to search, scrape, and access more sources.DietrichGebert/ponytailMakes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps100+ AI Agents, Agent Skills and RAG Apps - Free and Open Source.earendil-works/piAI agent toolkit: unified LLM API, agent loop, TUI, coding agent CLIgoogle-gemini/gemini-cliAn open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal.karpathy/autoresearchAI agents running research on single-GPU nanochat training automatically
| Name | Stars | |
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| firecrawl/firecrawl🔥 Supercharge your AI agents with data from the web and beyond. A web data API to search, scrape, and access more sources. · Apr 15, 2024 2 years ago | Apr 15, 20242 years ago | 187,774 |
| DietrichGebert/ponytailMakes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote. · Jun 12, 2026 5 months ago | Jun 12, 20265 months ago | 151,192 |
| Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps100+ AI Agents, Agent Skills and RAG Apps - Free and Open Source. · Apr 29, 2024 2 years ago | Apr 29, 20242 years ago | 140,545 |
| earendil-works/piAI agent toolkit: unified LLM API, agent loop, TUI, coding agent CLI · Aug 9, 2025 1 year ago | Aug 9, 20251 year ago | 111,599 |
| google-gemini/gemini-cliAn open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal. · Apr 17, 2025 1 year ago | Apr 17, 20251 year ago | 107,216 |
| karpathy/autoresearchAI agents running research on single-GPU nanochat training automatically · Mar 6, 2026 8 months ago | Mar 6, 20268 months ago | 97,141 |
Funding
116 rounds| Name | Amount | |
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| Nov 13, 202512 months ago | $2,300M | |
| May 4, 20266 months ago | $950M | |
| Jun 6, 20251 year ago | $900M | |
| Sep 14, 20268 weeks ago | $550M | |
| Sep 2, 20262 months ago | $550M | |
| Oct 8, 20264 weeks ago | $500M | |
| Mar 11, 20268 months ago | $400M | |
| Sep 4, 20251 year ago | $350M |
Partnerships
| Name | |
|---|---|
| Oct 28, 202612 days ago | |
| Sep 28, 20266 weeks ago | |
| Apr 24, 20266 months ago | |
| Dec 3, 202511 months ago | |
| Nov 27, 202511 months ago | |
| Oct 28, 20251 year ago | |
| Jul 16, 20251 year ago | |
| May 19, 20251 year ago |
Conferences
20 conferencesDreamforce 2027San Francisco, SF Bay Area, CAAGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2027London, United KingdomGenerative AI Summit Los Angeles 2027Los Angeles, CAAGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2027San Francisco, SF Bay Area, CAGENAIX: Global Generative & Agentic AI Summit 2027SingaporeSalesforce TDX 2027Location TBAGartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2026Las Vegas, NVGenerative AI Summit Toronto 2026Toronto, Canada
| Name | |
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| Dreamforce 2027San Francisco, SF Bay Area, CA · Sep 21, 2027 in 10 months | Sep 21, 2027in 10 months |
| AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2027London, United Kingdom · Sep 15, 2027 in 10 months | Sep 15, 2027in 10 months |
| Generative AI Summit Los Angeles 2027Los Angeles, CA · Aug 25, 2027 in 9 months | Aug 25, 2027in 9 months |
| AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2027San Francisco, SF Bay Area, CA · Apr 28, 2027 in 5 months | Apr 28, 2027in 5 months |
| GENAIX: Global Generative & Agentic AI Summit 2027Singapore · Apr 15, 2027 in 5 months | Apr 15, 2027in 5 months |
| Salesforce TDX 2027Location TBA · Mar 1, 2027 in 3 months | Mar 1, 2027in 3 months |
| Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2026Las Vegas, NV · Dec 8, 2026 in 4 weeks | Dec 8, 2026in 4 weeks |
| Generative AI Summit Toronto 2026Toronto, Canada · Nov 12, 2026 in 3 days | Nov 12, 2026in 3 days |
Related movements
Agentic codingCoding agents that read a repository, run commands and tests, and change code across files on their own.MCPModel Context Protocol: an open standard for connecting models and agents to tools and data sources.Computer useAgents that operate a computer the way a person does, reading the screen and moving the mouse and keyboard.AI browsersWeb browsers with an assistant or agent built in that reads pages and does tasks on them for you.Reasoning modelsModels trained with reinforcement learning to think step by step, spending more compute at answer time.
| Movement | Stage |
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| Agentic codingCoding agents that read a repository, run commands and tests, and change code across files on their own. | Rising |
| MCPModel Context Protocol: an open standard for connecting models and agents to tools and data sources. | Peak |
| Computer useAgents that operate a computer the way a person does, reading the screen and moving the mouse and keyboard. | Rising |
| AI browsersWeb browsers with an assistant or agent built in that reads pages and does tasks on them for you. | Plateau |
| Reasoning modelsModels trained with reinforcement learning to think step by step, spending more compute at answer time. | Peak |
History
Stage changed from peak to rising
Tracking started: emerged March 2023, peak, 5 other names recorded
| Date | What changed |
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| Nov 1, 2026 | Stage changed from peak to rising |
| Sep 24, 2026 | Tracking started: emerged March 2023, peak, 5 other names recorded |
Sources: Curve: Hacker News story titles, Wikipedia pageviews and arXiv papers by month, refreshed Nov 1, 2026. Related entities from the other Glyph Ibis sources' public APIs, matched by name. How stages work.