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AI - Artificial Intelligence

Where artificial intelligence meets decentralization

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Labs tracked

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Models trending

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Papers today

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AI repos

Aggregated from live feeds · updated 2h ago

What is the AI sector?

AI here means the slice of artificial intelligence that Web3 builders actually touch: the frontier labs setting the pace, the open models you can run yourself and the crypto projects wiring tokens to compute, inference and agents. This is not a general AI news page. It tracks the overlap - open weights, GPU markets, agent frameworks and the tokens attached to them.

The Frontier labs section tracks how the major labs are moving, because their release cadence sets expectations for everything downstream. Models trending reads live from Hugging Face and is the most useful block here: each row shows a Model with its Task, Downloads, Likes and Trend, so you see which open models people are actually pulling this week rather than which ones got a press release. That distinction matters. A model with a million downloads and a permissive license changes what a small team can build far more than a closed model behind an API. The research radar surfaces the day's papers, the tools stream tracks the repos shipping now and the AI News feed carries the crossover between AI and crypto. The Learn hub points at the channels worth following to go deeper.

Who is this page for. If you build, this is where you catch a model or a repo worth trying before it trends everywhere else. If you follow the AI crypto tokens, the model and compute activity here is the real demand signal underneath the token narratives.

Two misconceptions worth clearing. First, AI crypto tokens are not one thing: some pay for real GPU compute, some coordinate data, some are a mascot on a chatbot. Read what the token actually buys before you read the ticker. Second, running capable models locally is now realistic. A modern consumer GPU with enough VRAM runs strong open models offline, which is why the local LLM hardware question sits right next to the mining hardware question for a lot of the people who read this site. The overlap with the Mining and DePIN sectors is not a coincidence. It is all the same GPUs.

Common questions

What are AI crypto tokens?

AI crypto tokens are tokens attached to projects that combine AI and blockchain. They are not one thing: some pay for real GPU compute, some coordinate data or model access and some are mostly branding on a chatbot, so it is worth checking what each token actually buys.

Which AI models can I run myself?

Open-weight models with permissive licenses can run on your own hardware. The Models trending block reads Hugging Face so you can see which open models people are actually downloading and running this week.

What hardware do I need to run a local LLM?

A modern consumer GPU with enough VRAM can run strong open models offline. The exact requirement depends on the model size and quantization, but VRAM is usually the limiting factor, which is why the local LLM question sits close to the mining hardware question.

How are AI and crypto connected?

The overlap is compute and coordination: GPU markets, decentralized inference, agent frameworks and the tokens that pay for or govern them. Many of the same GPUs power AI, mining and DePIN compute, so the sectors move together.

The AI race - lab by lab

Google News · 2h ago

Trending on Hugging Face

huggingface.co · 2h ago
Model Downloads Trend
moonshotai/Kimi-K3 967.6k 2355
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 236.1k 1942
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3 0 1590
DavidAU/Qwen3.6-27B-Fable-Fusion-711-Uncensored-Heretic-NM-DAU-NEO-MAX-MTP-GGUF 1.6M 531
Comfy-Org/MiniMax-H3 2 477
unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731-GGUF 69.7k 418
baidu/Unlimited-OCR 2.6M 386
thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small 8.5k 253
unsloth/Kimi-K3-GGUF 128.2k 213
Audio8/Audio8-TTS-Preview-0.6b 4.6k 203
zai-org/GLM-5.2 2.2M 195
Kwaipilot/KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev 14.3k 189
microsoft/Mage-VL 431.5k 182
XYZAILab/XYZ-Aquila-mini 1.1k 149
lodestones/Kroma 0 149
EschaLabs/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Escha-W2 2.7k 148
owensong/Inflect-Micro-v2 1.9k 144
LuffyTheFox/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Uncensored-Genesis-Hermes-V6-GGUF 287.7k 134
Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.2-3B 34.7k 132
ethanfel/Qwen3-VL-32B-Ultra-Heretic-MiniMax-H3-ComfyUI-INT8-ConvRot 0 132

Research radar - daily papers

HF daily papers · 2h ago

Trending AI tools and models - new repos of the past 90 days

GitHub · 10m ago
  • XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-Code 12.6k stars
  • StarTrail-org/PixelRAG 9.0k stars
  • omnigent-ai/omnigent 8.1k stars
  • elder-plinius/T3MP3ST 5.4k stars
  • EverMind-AI/Raven 3.5k stars
  • UditAkhourii/adhd 3.2k stars
  • code-yeongyu/lazycodex 3.1k stars
  • synthetic-sciences/openscience 3.1k stars
  • TestSprite/testsprite-cli 2.8k stars
  • rpamis/comet 2.6k stars

Local LLM corner

Learn hub

Running models on hardware you control: local LLM and agent tooling reads land in Learn under the AI topic.