Fastest-rising AI tools this week
Which AI tools people are suddenly looking up. Ranked by the change in English Wikipedia page views over the last 7 days compared with the 7 days before, with Hacker News mentions alongside (how much the tech crowd is talking about it). Week ending 2026-10-26.
| # | Tool | Wikipedia views | Change | Hacker News mentions | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ChatGPT | 848,141 | +177% | 311 | -2% |
| 2 | Gemini | 30,543 | +102% | 203 | -48% |
| 3 | Kling | 24,151 | +102% | 1 | -50% |
| 4 | Devin | 4,808 | +52% | 0 | — |
| 5 | Claude | 54,053 | +51% | 1,456 | -11% |
| 6 | NotebookLM | 3,540 | +41% | 2 | — |
| 7 | Kimi | 4,622 | +30% | 166 | +295% |
| 8 | DeepSeek | 27,800 | +27% | 514 | +75% |
| 9 | Perplexity | 16,508 | +17% | 12 | -33% |
| 10 | Meta AI | 4,155 | +16% | 10 | -29% |
| 11 | Microsoft Copilot | 9,491 | +13% | 92 | +70% |
| 12 | Nvidia | 41,098 | +8% | 271 | +13% |
| 13 | Grok | 12,883 | +8% | 100 | -14% |
| 14 | Anthropic | 50,745 | +5% | 745 | -36% |
| 15 | Stable Diffusion | 4,292 | +5% | 8 | +60% |
| 16 | Midjourney | 3,924 | +2% | 6 | +0% |
| 17 | Google DeepMind | 7,593 | +0% | 25 | +9% |
| 18 | Cursor | 8,097 | -4% | 0 | — |
| 19 | Ollama | 5,428 | -5% | 16 | -36% |
| 20 | Mistral | 7,712 | -6% | 98 | +197% |
| 21 | xAI | 13,146 | -6% | 19 | +36% |
| 22 | Qwen | 9,175 | -7% | 138 | -9% |
| 23 | DALL-E | 3,144 | -7% | 1 | -80% |
| 24 | Sora | 3,612 | -7% | 4 | -43% |
| 25 | OpenAI | 51,675 | -8% | 842 | -10% |
| 26 | ElevenLabs | 7,529 | -8% | 8 | -11% |
| 27 | Thinking Machines | 3,115 | -11% | 0 | — |
| 28 | Llama | 3,392 | -13% | 45 | -27% |
| 29 | Hugging Face | 19,138 | -16% | 25 | -47% |
| 30 | Scale AI | 8,896 | -48% | 4 | -20% |
| 31 | Suno | 4,992 | -49% | 9 | +29% |
| 32 | Character.AI | 10,640 | -62% | 2 | -96% |
Only tools with at least 3,000 Wikipedia views a week are ranked (small pages jump around). Sources: Wikimedia pageviews (English Wikipedia, people not bots) and Hacker News search (Algolia). A rise in interest isn't an endorsement: news, outages and controversies drive views too.
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