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Signals

What moved, as it moved.

Short lines read straight from the source: Arena's leaderboard, the App Store, Hugging Face trending, OpenRouter spend, GitHub releases, the labs' status and pricing pages, and the Vikshy Score's daily close. Each links to where it was read. Times in UTC.

AllApp StoreReleaseUsageScore

Saturday 26 September

5 signals
App StoreGoogle Gemini drops out of the top 10 free apps on the US App Store, to #11UsageGemini 3.7 Flash enters OpenRouter's top 10 models by spend, at #8UsageGLM 5.3 Flash enters OpenRouter's top 10 models by spend, at #5ScoreBiggest move at the 26 Sep close: DeepSeek up 1.4 to 57.8ScoreDeepSeek passes Z.ai for #6 on the Vikshy Score

Friday 25 September

3 signals
ReleaseClaude Code 2.1.283 releasedScoreBiggest move at the 25 Sep close: Z.ai down 0.7 to 57.6ScoreMeta passes Z.ai for #5 on the Vikshy Score

Thursday 24 September

3 signals
ReleaseClaude Code 2.1.282 releasedReleasexAI Python SDK 1.20.0 releasedScoreBiggest move at the 24 Sep close: Z.ai down 2.3 to 58.3

Wednesday 23 September

3 signals
ReleaseGemini CLI 0.61.0 releasedScoreBiggest move at the 23 Sep close: Anthropic up 1.7 to 75.8ScorexAI passes Tencent for #8 on the Vikshy Score

Tuesday 22 September

2 signals
ScoreBiggest move at the 22 Sep close: xAI up 2.5 to 52.7ScorexAI passes Mistral and Moonshot for #9 on the Vikshy Score

Monday 21 September

1 signal
ScoreBiggest move at the 21 Sep close: Google DeepMind down 0.9 to 71.7

Sunday 20 September

1 signal
ScoreBiggest move at the 20 Sep close: Tencent down 0.8 to 52.7

Saturday 19 September

2 signals
ScoreBiggest move at the 19 Sep close: Moonshot up 1.9 to 51.4ScoreMoonshot passes xAI for #10 on the Vikshy Score