Trendingby GlyphAI search
Plateau · emerged February 2023 · high June 2026 · +20% on the month before · 63 mentions on Trending in 14 days
Search that answers with a written summary and citations instead of ten blue links, and the deep research agents that followed. Named by Microsoft: Reinventing search with a new AI-powered Microsoft Bing and Edge (Feb 7, 2023). Also called Answer engines, Generative search, AI Overviews, Deep research, Generative engine optimization.
Index 0 to 100, monthly
Signals
Hacker News stories, last 12 months270 stories, -30% on the 12 months before
arXiv papers, last 12 months176 papers, +179% on the 12 months before
Wikipedia views, October 20269,151, +19% on a year beforeAgainst its high-28% from the high of June 2026
Product releases naming it31 since Feb 19, 2026GitHub repositories8,880Funding rounds naming it13, $1.8B in all| Signal | Reads as | |
|---|---|---|
| Hacker News stories, last 12 months270 stories, -30% on the 12 months before | 270 stories, -30% on the 12 months before | Decline |
| arXiv papers, last 12 months176 papers, +179% on the 12 months before | 176 papers, +179% on the 12 months before | Adoption |
| Wikipedia views, October 20269,151, +19% on a year before | 9,151, +19% on a year before | Adoption |
| Against its high-28% from the high of June 2026 | -28% from the high of June 2026 | Decline |
| Product releases naming it31 since Feb 19, 2026 | 31 since Feb 19, 2026 | Adoption |
| GitHub repositories8,880 | 8,880 | Adoption |
| Funding rounds naming it13, $1.8B in all | 13, $1.8B in all | Adoption |
Trending terms
| Term | PeakPeak score | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22 months ago | 1 | 24 |
Companies
| Name | Mentions |
|---|---|
| 21 | |
| 12 | |
| 10 | |
| 6 | |
| 2 | |
| 2 | |
| 1 | |
| 1 |
Releases
31 releases since Feb 19, 2026| Name | |
|---|---|
| Oct 30, 202611 days ago | |
| Oct 16, 20263 weeks ago | |
| Oct 8, 20264 weeks ago | |
| Oct 1, 20265 weeks ago | |
| Sep 24, 20266 weeks ago | |
| Sep 22, 20267 weeks ago | |
| Sep 11, 20262 months ago | |
| Sep 2, 20262 months ago |
Papers
| Name | |
|---|---|
| Oct 22, 20262 weeks ago | |
| May 11, 20266 months ago | |
| Nov 10, 20251 year ago | |
| Oct 28, 20251 year ago | |
| Oct 20, 20251 year ago | |
| Oct 16, 20251 year ago | |
| Aug 7, 20251 year ago |
GitHub projects
8,880 repositorieskhoj-ai/khojYour AI second brain. Self-hostable. Get answers from the web or your docs. Build custom agents, schedule automations, do deep research. Turassafelovic/gpt-researcherAn autonomous agent that conducts deep research on any data using any LLM providersAlibaba-NLP/DeepResearchTongyi Deep Research, the Leading Open-source Deep Research Agentdzhng/deep-researchAn AI-powered research assistant that performs iterative, deep research on any topic by combining search engines, web scraping, and large laarc53/DocsGPTPrivate AI platform for agents, assistants and enterprise search. Built-in Agent Builder, Deep research, Document analysis, Multi-model suppgoogle-deepmind/deepmind-researchThis repository contains implementations and illustrative code to accompany DeepMind publications
| Name | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| khoj-ai/khojYour AI second brain. Self-hostable. Get answers from the web or your docs. Build custom agents, schedule automations, do deep research. Tur · Aug 16, 2021 5 years ago | Aug 16, 20215 years ago | 37,493 |
| assafelovic/gpt-researcherAn autonomous agent that conducts deep research on any data using any LLM providers · May 12, 2023 3 years ago | May 12, 20233 years ago | 29,610 |
| Alibaba-NLP/DeepResearchTongyi Deep Research, the Leading Open-source Deep Research Agent · Jan 9, 2025 1 year ago | Jan 9, 20251 year ago | 19,990 |
| dzhng/deep-researchAn AI-powered research assistant that performs iterative, deep research on any topic by combining search engines, web scraping, and large la · Feb 4, 2025 1 year ago | Feb 4, 20251 year ago | 19,723 |
| arc53/DocsGPTPrivate AI platform for agents, assistants and enterprise search. Built-in Agent Builder, Deep research, Document analysis, Multi-model supp · Feb 2, 2023 3 years ago | Feb 2, 20233 years ago | 18,283 |
| google-deepmind/deepmind-researchThis repository contains implementations and illustrative code to accompany DeepMind publications · Jan 15, 2019 7 years ago | Jan 15, 20197 years ago | 15,204 |
Funding
13 rounds| Name | Amount | |
|---|---|---|
| May 1, 20251 year ago | $500M | |
| Dec 19, 20241 year ago | $500M | |
| Sep 10, 20251 year ago | $200M | |
| Sep 15, 20268 weeks ago | $180M | |
| Jul 1, 20251 year ago | $100M | |
| Feb 24, 20268 months ago | $96M | |
| Jan 4, 20242 years ago | $74M | |
| Apr 23, 20242 years ago | $63M |
Related movements
RAGRetrieval-augmented generation: a model answers from documents fetched for the question instead of from memory alone.AI browsersWeb browsers with an assistant or agent built in that reads pages and does tasks on them for you.AI agentsModels that plan and act in steps, calling tools and other services until a task is done.
| Movement | Stage |
|---|---|
| RAGRetrieval-augmented generation: a model answers from documents fetched for the question instead of from memory alone. | Plateau |
| AI browsersWeb browsers with an assistant or agent built in that reads pages and does tasks on them for you. | Plateau |
| AI agentsModels that plan and act in steps, calling tools and other services until a task is done. | Rising |
History
Stage changed from peak to plateau
Tracking started: emerged February 2023, peak, 5 other names recorded
| Date | What changed |
|---|---|
| Oct 2, 2026 | Stage changed from peak to plateau |
| Sep 24, 2026 | Tracking started: emerged February 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.