Weekly release
Posts published 10–16 Aug 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
Archive backfillBackfilled from archives (Reddit, Hacker News and arXiv only).
This release’s conditions
No prose is stored for this release.
The first place on the one platform that counts people this week, in its reading’s own words. One platform, one ranking.
10,493 distinct people on Reddit
On Reddit, 10,493 distinct people posted about Claude between 10 and 16 August 2026: 15,824 posts, an estimated 5.50% of that week's Reddit posts about AI, leaving out spam, bot, incentive and templated automated posts (100.0% of these posts had an identifiable author).
Claude · Reddit · posts from 10–16 Aug 2026 · n 15,824 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.
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 287,924 postsbar: people, #1 = 10,493 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ClaudeAnthropic | 10,493#1 |
| 2 | ChatGPTOpenAI | 4,971#2 |
| 3 | GeminiGoogle DeepMind | 2,738#3 |
| 4 | QwenAlibaba | 2,682#4 |
| 5 | DeepSeekDeepSeek | 2,202#5 |
| 6 | GPTOpenAI | 1,926#6 |
| 7 | Claude CodeAnthropic › Claude | 1,759#7 |
| 8 | CodexOpenAI | 1,579#8 |
| 9 | MiniMax H-seriesMiniMax | 1,485#9 |
| 10 | GrokxAI | 1,441#10 |
| 11 | GemmaGoogle DeepMind | 746#11 |
| 12 | KimiMoonshot AI | 691#12 |
| 13 | GLMZhipu AI | 517#13 |
| 14 | MuseMeta | 421#14 |
| 15 | LlamaMeta | 360#15 |
Distinct people who posted about each subject, 10–16 Aug 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 13:30Z; 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. Reddit DALL·E: “n 17 people, below the threshold of 20 people”. Each column’s n 287,924 posts on Reddit.
Posts, no peoplearXiv and Exa are not ranked. Article sources have no authors, so people aren’t counted. Posts per subject, largest first:
arXiv n 422 posts · 85 subjects
Qwen 21, GPT 12, Claude 7, DeepSeek 4 posts, and 81 more subjects
Exa n not recorded · 85 subjects
Not counted this week: Exa has no day between 10 and 16 August 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there’s no figure to show.
The same subjects one week later, on the platform with enough people. Microsoft Copilot grew on Reddit while Claude eased.
Reddit · people per subject
Distinct people per subject on each release’s board, for subjects with n ≥ 100 posts in both weeks (25 on Reddit), as of 25 Sep 2026 13:30Z; 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 287,924 and 242,009 posts. 2026-W33 and 2026-W34 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 = 147,356
No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 731
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 = 220
No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 118
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 = 114
Per platform and day, 10–16 Aug 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 11:23Z. 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.10–16 Aug 2026, from conditions.coverage, computed 2 Oct 2026 11:23Z. 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 app 70 · Gemini API (Google AI Studio) 69
› Qwen Code 33
› DeepSeek Harness 110 · DeepSeek API 102
› Grok app 70 · Grok Build 25
People on Reddit, 10–16 Aug 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 13:30Z, all on Reddit’s one scale (#1 = 10,493). 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% | ||
| Exa | hidden | hidden | not applicable |
10–16 Aug 2026 · as of 25 Sep 2026 13:30Z · 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 287,924 posts on Reddit, not recorded on Bluesky, 340 on Hacker News, 422 on arXiv 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 10 | Tue 11 | Wed 12 | Thu 13 | Fri 14 | Sat 15 | Sun 16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 10 Aug: backfilled | Tue 11 Aug: backfilled | Wed 12 Aug: backfilled | Thu 13 Aug: backfilled | Fri 14 Aug: backfilled | Sat 15 Aug: backfilled | Sun 16 Aug: backfilled | |
| Bluesky | Mon 10 Aug: not started | Tue 11 Aug: not started | Wed 12 Aug: not started | Thu 13 Aug: not started | Fri 14 Aug: not started | Sat 15 Aug: not started | Sun 16 Aug: not started |
| YouTube | Mon 10 Aug: not started | Tue 11 Aug: not started | Wed 12 Aug: not started | Thu 13 Aug: not started | Fri 14 Aug: not started | Sat 15 Aug: not started | Sun 16 Aug: not started |
| Hacker News | Mon 10 Aug: backfilled | Tue 11 Aug: backfilled | Wed 12 Aug: backfilled | Thu 13 Aug: backfilled | Fri 14 Aug: backfilled | Sat 15 Aug: backfilled | Sun 16 Aug: backfilled |
| arXiv | Mon 10 Aug: backfilled | Tue 11 Aug: backfilled | Wed 12 Aug: backfilled | Thu 13 Aug: backfilled | Fri 14 Aug: backfilled | Sat 15 Aug: backfilled | Sun 16 Aug: backfilled |
| Google News | Mon 10 Aug: not started | Tue 11 Aug: not started | Wed 12 Aug: not started | Thu 13 Aug: not started | Fri 14 Aug: not started | Sat 15 Aug: not started | Sun 16 Aug: not started |
| Exa | Mon 10 Aug: not started | Tue 11 Aug: not started | Wed 12 Aug: not started | Thu 13 Aug: not started | Fri 14 Aug: not started | Sat 15 Aug: not started | Sun 16 Aug: not started |
Coverage computed 2 Oct 2026 11:23Z · as of 25 Sep 2026 13:30Z · 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-W33.
Permanent link /releases/2026-W33
AIDRAN is the author and the publisher, so the citation names it once. To cite one subject, cite its reading page instead.
Licensed CC BY 4.0: reuse it with this citation.
None. No reading in this release has been revised or corrected.