AI agents

Peak · emerged March 2023 · high April 2026 · +0% on the month before · 471 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.

Index 0 to 100, monthly

Signals

Signal	Value	Reads as
Hacker News stories, last 12 months6,847 stories, +248% on the 12 months before	6,847 stories, +248% on the 12 months before	Adoption
arXiv papers, last 12 months6,864 papers, +199% on the 12 months before	6,864 papers, +199% on the 12 months before	Adoption
Wikipedia views, August 202621,237, -43% on a year before	21,237, -43% on a year before	Decline
Product releases naming it1,286 since Sep 1, 2025	1,286 since Sep 1, 2025	Adoption
GitHub repositories310,803	310,803	Adoption
Funding rounds naming it37, $2.6B in all	37, $2.6B in all	Adoption
Conferences about it10	10	Adoption

Companies

Name	Mentions
Vercel	132
Cloudflare	119
GitHub	98
Google Cloud	63
Databricks	58
Airbyte	42
Anthropic	39
Microsoft	37

Releases

1,286 releases since Sep 1, 2025

Name	Date
Buildkite Cache is now in public previewBuildkite · Sep 24, 2026 yesterday	Sep 24, 2026yesterday
New controls for Linear coding agentLinear · Sep 24, 2026 yesterday	Sep 24, 2026yesterday
Install ngrok skills from Cursor's plugin marketplacengrok · Sep 24, 2026 yesterday	Sep 24, 2026yesterday
Retool CLIRetool · Sep 24, 2026 yesterday	Sep 24, 2026yesterday
New project activity feedNetlify · Sep 24, 2026 yesterday	Sep 24, 2026yesterday
September 2026Perplexity · Sep 24, 2026 yesterday	Sep 24, 2026yesterday
huggingface_hub [v1.33.0] Better UX on large uploads and simpler skills installsHugging Face · Sep 24, 2026 yesterday	Sep 24, 2026yesterday
Vercel Connect now supports TanStack AIVercel · Sep 24, 2026 yesterday	Sep 24, 2026yesterday

GitHub projects

310,803 repositories

Name	Created	Stars
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 3 months ago	Jun 12, 20263 months ago	145,525
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	139,660
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	109,177
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	107,152
karpathy/autoresearchAI agents running research on single-GPU nanochat training automatically · Mar 6, 2026 6 months ago	Mar 6, 20266 months ago	96,724
Panniantong/Agent-ReachGive your AI agent eyes to see the entire internet. Read & search Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, GitHub, Bilibili, XiaoHongShu — one CLI, zero AP · Feb 24, 2026 7 months ago	Feb 24, 20267 months ago	85,273

Funding

37 rounds

Name	Date	Amount
TemporalSeries E · Sep 14, 2026 11 days ago	Sep 14, 202611 days ago	$550M
WonderfulSeries C · Sep 2, 2026 3 weeks ago	Sep 2, 20263 weeks ago	$550M
HappyRobotSeries C · Aug 4, 2026 7 weeks ago	Aug 4, 20267 weeks ago	$150M
Prime IntellectSeries A · Jul 8, 2026 2 months ago	Jul 8, 20262 months ago	$130M
ZenitySeries C · Aug 3, 2026 7 weeks ago	Aug 3, 20267 weeks ago	$125M
Onyx SecuritySeries B · Jul 30, 2026 8 weeks ago	Jul 30, 20268 weeks ago	$113M
LyzrSeries B · Jul 9, 2026 2 months ago	Jul 9, 20262 months ago	$100M
Sail ResearchSeries A · Jun 25, 2026 3 months ago	Jun 25, 20263 months ago	$80M

Partnerships

Name	Date
Snowflake and Anthropic: $200M partnershipDec 3, 2025 9 months ago	Dec 3, 20259 months ago
Palantir and Nvidia: an operational AI stackOct 28, 2025 11 months ago	Oct 28, 202511 months ago

Conferences

10 conferences

Name	Date
Dreamforce 2027San Francisco, SF Bay Area, CA · Sep 21, 2027 in 12 months	Sep 21, 2027in 12 months
AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2027London, United Kingdom · Sep 15, 2027 in 11 months	Sep 15, 2027in 11 months
AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2027San Francisco, SF Bay Area, CA · Apr 28, 2027 in 7 months	Apr 28, 2027in 7 months
Snowflake Expedition 2026Online · Nov 3, 2026 in 5 weeks	Nov 3, 2026in 5 weeks
AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026San Jose, SF Bay Area, CA · Oct 22, 2026 in 3 weeks	Oct 22, 2026in 3 weeks
Data Streaming Summit 2026: The Data Streaming + Agent Infra ConferenceSan Francisco, SF Bay Area, CA · Oct 7, 2026 in 12 days	Oct 7, 2026in 12 days
Dreamforce 2026San Francisco, SF Bay Area, CA · Sep 15, 2026 10 days ago	Sep 15, 202610 days ago
MongoDB.local Build Fest 2026San Francisco, SF Bay Area, CA · Aug 13, 2026 6 weeks ago	Aug 13, 20266 weeks ago

Movement	Stage
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.	Plateau
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.	Plateau

History

Date	What changed
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 Sep 24, 2026. Related entities from the fru.dev sites' public APIs, matched by name. How stages work.