Measured public attention
Which model is actually ahead?
60 measured threads · about 60,000 points · measured 11 October 2026
What happened
Model releases are the single largest attention magnet of 2026: 60 release threads above 300 points, about 60,000 points in total.
The supplied measurement groups 60 threads with about 60,000 points and 37,855 comments. These totals measure attention, not whether the linked claims are true.
The timeline brings together 75 source-linked contributions assigned to this question. It preserves their dates, discussion records and original sources.
Complete assigned timeline
Claude Haiku 5.5
GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
Mistral Large 4
Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk"
Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model
Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
Gemini 4 Argon
GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech
GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car
Claude Opus 5.5
GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)
GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher
Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra
GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning
GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
GPT-6 Astra
Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp
GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter
GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released
GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
Gemini 3.7 Flash
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index
DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X
DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
Claude Opus 5
Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture
Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling
GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization
GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
GPT-5.6
GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex
GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance
Claude Sonnet 5
GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks
Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2
GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis
Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive
Claude Fable 5
DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision
Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model
Claude Opus 4.8
Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier
Gemini 3.5 Flash
DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal
Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge
DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier
DeepSeek v4
GPT-5.5
Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
Claude Opus 4.7
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all
Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards real world agents
GPT-5.4
GPT‑5.3 Instant
Gemini 3.1 Pro
Gemini 3.1 Pro
Claude Sonnet 4.6
GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
Gemini 3 Deep Think
GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment
Claude Opus 4.6
GPT-5.3-Codex
Continue the evidence trail
Method
Attention is measured, not guessed: every Hacker News story from 1 Jan 2026 with more than 300 points and an AI subject (631 stories), read through the public search interface on 11 Oct 2026, grouped by the question behind the story. Survey figures come from published polls with four-digit samples and are linked.