Time machine
The AI landscape on 1 Apr 2026
Rankings are reconstructed from stored daily history (never re-estimated); the model list shows what had been released by that date. History depth grows with every ingest and with the backfilled time series (Wikipedia: 1 year, HN: 6 months).
Popularity ranking as of 1 Apr 2026
| # | vs 30d | AI | Today |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no history | ChatGPT | #3 |
| 2 | no history | Claude Code | #6 |
| 3 | no history | Vercel AI SDK | #36 |
| 4 | no history | n8n | #14 |
| 5 | no history | OpenAI Codex | #7 |
| 6 | no history | Claude | #4 |
| 7 | no history | Gemini | #9 |
| 8 | no history | Perplexity | #35 |
| 9 | no history | Grok | #19 |
| 10 | no history | Sora | #57 |
| 11 | no history | OpenRouter | #15 |
| 12 | no history | Gemini CLI | #85 |
| 13 | no history | Microsoft Copilot | #50 |
| 14 | no history | Model Context Protocol | #1 |
| 15 | no history | Manus | #66 |
| 16 | no history | Cursor | #13 |
| 17 | no history | Qwen | #11 |
| 18 | no history | Midjourney | #49 |
| 19 | no history | Character.AI | #38 |
| 20 | no history | NotebookLM | #46 |
| 21 | no history | Stable Diffusion | #56 |
| 22 | no history | Suno | #27 |
| 23 | no history | ElevenLabs | #8 |
| 24 | no history | Llama | #47 |
| 25 | no history | NVIDIA Blackwell | #26 |
| 26 | no history | Hugging Face Hub | #2 |
| 27 | no history | Scale Data Engine | #41 |
| 28 | no history | Apple Intelligence | #20 |
| 29 | no history | Kimi | #22 |
| 30 | no history | Google Cloud TPU | #31 |
Capability frontier at that date (ECI)
- GPT-5.4 Pro159.12
- GPT-5.4156.92
- GPT-5.3-Codex156.84
- GPT-5.2 Pro155.41
- Claude Opus 4.6155.36
- Gemini 3.1 Pro154.92
- GPT-5.2153.45
- Gemini 3 Pro152.96
636 tracked models had been released by this date.
Events in 2026-04
- SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.3
- SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.3 (batch)
- Mistral releases Mistral Medium 3.5 (batch)
- Mistral releases Mistral Medium 3.5
- Poolside releases Laguna M.1
- Poolside releases Laguna XS.2
- Qwen releases Qwen3.6 Flash
- Qwen releases Qwen3.6 35B A3B
- Qwen releases Qwen3.6 Max Preview
- Alibaba releases Qwen 3.6 Flash
- Alibaba releases Qwen 3.6 Flash (2026-04-16)
- OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 (batch)