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.
Fastest-rising AI tools, week of October 26, 2026: ChatGPT leads (+177%)
Which AI tools people suddenly looked up this week: ChatGPT (+177%), Gemini (+102%) and Kling (+102%), measured by English Wikipedia page views over the last 7 days compared with the 7 days before. 17 of the 32 tools we rank got more views than the week before.
The most looked-up overall: ChatGPT (848,141 views), Claude (54,053 views) and OpenAI (51,675 views).
On Hacker News, where developers discuss tech, the biggest jump in mentions was for Kimi (+320%, 168 mentions), Mistral (+120%, 90 mentions) and Microsoft Copilot (+75%, 91 mentions).
Cooling off: Character.AI (-62%), Suno (-49%) and Scale AI (-48%).
How we count: we compare English Wikipedia page views (people, not bots) for each tool's page, ranking only tools with at least 3,000 views a week, and count Hacker News posts and comments that mention it. A rise in interest isn't an endorsement: news, outages and controversies drive views too.
| # | Tool | Wikipedia views | Change | Hacker News mentions | Change |
|---|
| 1 | ChatGPT | 848,141 |
+177% |
314 |
-0% |
| 2 | Gemini | 30,543 |
+102% |
204 |
-48% |
| 3 | Kling | 24,151 |
+102% |
1 |
-50% |
| 4 | Devin | 4,808 |
+52% |
0 |
— |
| 5 | Claude | 54,053 |
+51% |
1,446 |
-12% |
| 6 | NotebookLM | 3,540 |
+41% |
2 |
— |
| 7 | Kimi | 4,622 |
+30% |
168 |
+320% |
| 8 | DeepSeek | 27,800 |
+27% |
515 |
+73% |
| 9 | Perplexity | 16,508 |
+17% |
13 |
-28% |
| 10 | Meta AI | 4,155 |
+16% |
10 |
-29% |
| 11 | Microsoft Copilot | 9,491 |
+13% |
91 |
+75% |
| 12 | Nvidia | 41,098 |
+8% |
273 |
+15% |
| 13 | Grok | 12,883 |
+8% |
101 |
-14% |
| 14 | Anthropic | 50,745 |
+5% |
746 |
-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% |
17 |
-29% |
| 20 | Mistral | 7,712 |
-6% |
90 |
+120% |
| 21 | xAI | 13,146 |
-6% |
19 |
+36% |
| 22 | Qwen | 9,175 |
-7% |
137 |
-10% |
| 23 | DALL-E | 3,144 |
-7% |
1 |
-80% |
| 24 | Sora | 3,612 |
-7% |
4 |
-43% |
| 25 | OpenAI | 51,675 |
-8% |
840 |
-9% |
| 26 | ElevenLabs | 7,529 |
-8% |
8 |
-11% |
| 27 | Thinking Machines | 3,115 |
-11% |
0 |
— |
| 28 | Llama | 3,392 |
-13% |
44 |
-29% |
| 29 | Hugging Face | 19,138 |
-16% |
26 |
-45% |
| 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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Past weeks
- October 26, 2026 (latest)