Weekly release
Posts published 12–18 Jan 2026 on Reddit, Bluesky, YouTube, Hacker News, arXiv, Google News and Exa, each measured on its own: 97 readings.
Published 2 Oct 2026. Its figures never change. Cite it with its permanent link. What these states mean
March eraRebuilt from archives, with live capture from 7 Mar to 31 May.
This release’s conditions
No prose is stored for this release.
The first place on each of the two platforms that count people, in its reading’s own words. Two platforms, two rankings; nothing here is added across them.
7,659 distinct people on Reddit
On Reddit, 7,659 distinct people posted about ChatGPT between 12 and 18 January 2026: 10,149 posts, an estimated 3.90% of that week's Reddit posts about AI, leaving out templated automated posts (100.0% of these posts had an identifiable author).
ChatGPT · Reddit · posts from 12–18 Jan 2026 · n 10,149 posts · author coverage 100.0% · 7 days: 7 backfilled
34 distinct people on Hacker News
On Hacker News, 34 distinct people posted about Claude between 12 and 18 January 2026: 34 posts, 11.97% of that week's Hacker News posts about AI (100.0% of these posts had an identifiable author).
Claude · Hacker News · posts from 12–18 Jan 2026 · n 34 posts · author coverage 100.0% · 7 days: 7 backfilled
Each card is the lead measured statement of one platform’s first place: the stored statement whose figures include that platform’s people count, shown verbatim. Platforms rank separately.
Every subject’s place on each platform that counts people, side by side. Read down a column for one platform’s ranking; read across a row to see how differently the platforms rank one subject.
| Rank | Subject · lineage | Reddit ▼ sortedn 260,371 postsbar: people, #1 = 7,659 | Hacker Newsn 284 postsbar: people, #1 = 34 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ChatGPTOpenAI | 7,659#1 | Hidden · n 14 people: n 14 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 2 | ClaudeAnthropic | 6,416#2 | 34#1 |
| 3 | GeminiGoogle DeepMind | 4,286#3 | Hidden · n 5 people: n 5 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 4 | GPTOpenAI | 2,685#4 | Hidden · n 3 people: n 3 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 5 | GrokxAI | 2,378#5 | Hidden · n 11 people: n 11 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 6 | Claude CodeAnthropic › Claude | 2,014#6 | 20#2 |
| 7 | QwenAlibaba | 1,095#7 | Hidden · n 1 people: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 8 | Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft AI | 952#8 | Hidden · n 2 people: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 9 | CodexOpenAI | 689#9 | Hidden · n 5 people: n 5 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 10 | DeepSeekDeepSeek | 647#10 | Hidden · n 2 people: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 11 | SoraOpenAI | 540#11 | Hidden · n 1 people: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 12 | GLMZhipu AI | 489#12 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 13 | WanAlibaba | 472#13 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 14 | Grok appxAI › Grok | 332#14 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 15 | LlamaMeta | 299#15 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
People on Hacker News · n 284 posts#1 = 34
Distinct people who posted about each subject, 12–18 Jan 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z; published. Each column is scaled to its own #1 and ranks on its own; nothing is added across platforms, because one person can post on several. Rows follow Reddit, the default platform. Hatched cells are hidden, never shown as a number. The stored reason, e.g. Hacker News ChatGPT: “n 14 people, below the threshold of 20 people”. Each column’s n 260,371 posts on Reddit and 284 on Hacker News.
Posts, no peoplearXiv, Google News and Exa are not ranked. Article sources have no authors, so people aren’t counted. Posts per subject, largest first:
arXiv n 409 posts · 85 subjects
Qwen 13, GPT 11, DeepSeek 8, Claude 7 posts, and 81 more subjects
Google News n not recorded · 85 subjects
Not counted this week: Google News has no day between 12 and 18 January 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there’s no figure to show.
Exa n not recorded · 85 subjects
Not counted this week: Exa has no day between 12 and 18 January 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there’s no figure to show.
The same subjects one week later, on the platform with enough people. Claude Code grew on Reddit while ChatGPT eased.
Reddit · people per subject
Distinct people per subject on each release’s board, for subjects with n ≥ 100 posts in both weeks (30 on Reddit), as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z; published. Each panel on its own scale; lines join one subject’s two weeks. Each week’s n is its platform’s posts: Reddit n 260,371 and 252,246 posts. 2026-W03 and 2026-W04 follow on from each other, so their lines are joined.
When a post was written and when AIDRAN caught it are different days. For each platform, what was published each day against what was captured that day, and how much of the capture was catching up.What was published each day against what AIDRAN captured that day, and how much of it was catching up.
No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 159,590
No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 162
No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 1
No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 230
No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 100
No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 338
No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 1
Per platform and day, 12–18 Jan 2026: posts published that day (published_n), posts captured that day whatever their publish date (captured_n), and the part of those captured late (late_captured_n), from conditions.coverage, computed 2 Oct 2026 03:23Z. Each platform on its own scale. A flag bar marks a partial, low-capture or late-heavy day. Not-started days show published only: those posts were captured later and do count.12–18 Jan 2026, from conditions.coverage, computed 2 Oct 2026 03:23Z. Each platform on its own scale; a flag bar marks a partial, low-capture or late-heavy day.
Families and their products on Reddit. A post about Claude Code usually also counts for Claude, so the bars sit together and are never summed.Families and their products on Reddit, side by side and never summed.
The family entry already includes its products; not added.
Gemini family · Google DeepMind
› Gemini API (Google AI Studio) 162 · Gemini CLI 94 · Gemini app 68
› Grok app 332
People on Reddit, 12–18 Jan 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z, all on Reddit’s one scale (#1 = 7,659). Groups follow each subject’s stored lineage.
Posts, threads and distinct people on each platform: the context for every share in this release. Each platform stands alone.The context for every share. Each platform stands alone.
| Platform | Posts | Threads | People | Author cov. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hidden | hidden | |||
| Bluesky | hidden | hidden | hidden | |
| Hacker News | 100.0% | |||
| arXiv | not applicable | 0.0% | ||
| Google News | hidden | hidden | not applicable | |
| Exa | hidden | hidden | not applicable |
12–18 Jan 2026 · as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z · counted from posts’ own data · no platform coverage-limited. People count distinct platform identities and are never added across platforms, so there is no total row. People are not applicable on article sources. Reddit’s posts include its comments. Each figure’s n 260,371 posts on Reddit, not recorded on Bluesky, 284 on Hacker News, 409 on arXiv, not recorded on Google News and not recorded on Exa.
Each subject against its previous stored reading under the same method, share and people, platform by platform. Each has its own page, for its size: one cell a subject and platform.
What AIDRAN was collecting on each platform, each day of the week. A day can hold posts even when collection hadn’t started: they were captured later.What AIDRAN was collecting on each platform, each day.
| Platform | Mon 12 | Tue 13 | Wed 14 | Thu 15 | Fri 16 | Sat 17 | Sun 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 12 Jan: backfilled | Tue 13 Jan: backfilled | Wed 14 Jan: backfilled | Thu 15 Jan: backfilled | Fri 16 Jan: backfilled | Sat 17 Jan: backfilled | Sun 18 Jan: backfilled | |
| Bluesky | Mon 12 Jan: not started | Tue 13 Jan: not started | Wed 14 Jan: not started | Thu 15 Jan: not started | Fri 16 Jan: not started | Sat 17 Jan: not started | Sun 18 Jan: not started |
| YouTube | Mon 12 Jan: not started | Tue 13 Jan: not started | Wed 14 Jan: not started | Thu 15 Jan: not started | Fri 16 Jan: not started | Sat 17 Jan: not started | Sun 18 Jan: not started |
| Hacker News | Mon 12 Jan: backfilled | Tue 13 Jan: backfilled | Wed 14 Jan: backfilled | Thu 15 Jan: backfilled | Fri 16 Jan: backfilled | Sat 17 Jan: backfilled | Sun 18 Jan: backfilled |
| arXiv | Mon 12 Jan: backfilled | Tue 13 Jan: backfilled | Wed 14 Jan: backfilled | Thu 15 Jan: backfilled | Fri 16 Jan: backfilled | Sat 17 Jan: backfilled | Sun 18 Jan: backfilled |
| Google News | Mon 12 Jan: not started | Tue 13 Jan: not started | Wed 14 Jan: not started | Thu 15 Jan: not started | Fri 16 Jan: not started | Sat 17 Jan: not started | Sun 18 Jan: not started |
| Exa | Mon 12 Jan: not started | Tue 13 Jan: not started | Wed 14 Jan: not started | Thu 15 Jan: not started | Fri 16 Jan: not started | Sat 17 Jan: not started | Sun 18 Jan: not started |
Coverage computed 2 Oct 2026 03:23Z · as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z · frozen with the release, never recomputed. Each day opens what it holds.A bar marks a flagged day.
Published 2 Oct 2026. Its figures never change. Cite it with its permanent link.
AIDRAN. Release 2026-W03.
Permanent link /releases/2026-W03
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