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multimodal and frontier foundation models

Recent window: last 5.2 months (2026-04-26 → 2026-10-02), compared with the prior 5.2 months.

horizontal · 81 members · Data as of 2026-10-05

These products comprise core foundation models, distilled architectures, and specialized APIs for speech, vision, and agentic reasoning. They are built for developers, AI researchers, and engineering teams creating real-time multimodal applications and voice agents. Unlike end-user AI productivity tools, this cluster centers on the underlying models, weights, and infrastructure powering next-generation AI.

Metrics

Stage
heating
Recent count
55
Prior count
21
Total count
81
Momentum
161.90
Attention
0.50
Crowding
0.18
Concentration
0.82
Opportunity
0.54

Opportunity components

Attention
0.50
Low crowding
0.82
Momentum (normalized)
0.65
Low concentration
0.18

Source split

github
8 (0.15)
hn
6 (0.11)
ph
40 (0.73)
yc
1 (0.02)

Dominant source: ph · Divergence: 0.71

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Monthly trajectory

Members

Name Source Upvotes ▼ Launched
Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now HN 3346 2025-12-09
Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model HN 776 2026-05-12
Three new Kitten TTS models HN 561 2026-03-19
Google Gemma 4 PH 439 2026-04-03
Interactive Simulations in Gemini PH 411 2026-04-12
Gemini Omni PH 386 2026-05-20
Gemini Spark PH 341 2026-06-26
GPT-5.6 PH 337 2026-07-10
Lightning V3 PH 321 2026-04-02
Gemini 3.1 Flash Live PH 320 2026-03-27
Notebooks in Gemini PH 315 2026-04-18
Gemini 4 Argon PH 289 2026-10-04
Google Search Live PH 275 2026-03-29
Krisp Voice Translation API PH 275 2026-06-09
Gemini 3.5 Live Translate PH 253 2026-06-10
Gemini Embedding 2 PH 241 2026-03-11
Gemini 3.7 Flash PH 240 2026-08-14
Google Gemini 3.8 Flash and Cyber PH 237 2026-09-04
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe PH 229 2026-08-27
Gemini Deep Research Agent PH 226 2026-04-30
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash PH 223 2026-08-28
Gemini Robotics ER 1.6 PH 217 2026-04-15
OCR Arena HN 216 2025-11-21
Gemini 3.8 & 3.8 Live Extended Thinking PH 213 2026-09-16
Agentic Video Understanding in Gemini PH 209 2026-09-06
Googlebook PH 209 2026-05-13
Cactus Hybrid: We taught Gemma 4 to know when it's wrong HN 191 2026-07-22
Google Gemini in Chrome PH 189 2026-03-24
Gemini Omni Flash PH 189 2026-07-01
Step 3.7 Flash PH 183 2026-05-30
Gemini 3.6 Flash Family PH 182 2026-07-22
AI Timeline HN 174 2026-02-23
Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo PH 170 2026-10-02
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite PH 168 2026-05-16
Google Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS PH 166 2026-04-16
File Generation in Gemini PH 165 2026-04-30
Google Veo 3.1 Lite PH 156 2026-04-01
Voxtral TTS by Mistral AI PH 156 2026-03-27
Realtime TTS-2 PH 152 2026-05-06
Desert Ant Labs PH 133 2026-09-10
Devin Voice PH 121 2026-09-11
MiMo-V2.6 PH 118 2026-09-22
TetrisBench HN 111 2026-01-26
Googlebook PH 99 2026-09-22
Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech models PH 98 2026-09-24
titania GITHUB 87 2026-09-10
Fly By HN 84 2026-09-01
PixelBoard GITHUB 71 2026-09-17
Sign language translation with smart glasses HN 26 2026-08-04
Audio-to-Video with LTX-2 HN 23 2026-03-02