Release 2026-W34: 17–23 August 2026

Name: Release 2026-W34: 17–23 August 2026
Creator: AIDRAN
Published: 2026-10-02
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

AIDRAN

The week in brief · 2026-W34

No prose is stored for this release.

What this release found

The first place on the one platform that counts people this week, in its reading’s own words. One platform, one ranking.

01 · #1 on Reddit

ClaudeModel · Anthropic

9,430 distinct people on Reddit

On Reddit, 9,430 distinct people posted about Claude between 17 and 23 August 2026: 13,724 posts, an estimated 5.67% 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 17–23 Aug 2026 · n 13,724 posts · author coverage 100.0% · 7 days: 7 backfilled

Read the reading The posts behind it

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.

The summary table

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.

People per subject on each platform, 17–23 Aug 2026: the first 15 in Reddit’s order
Rank	Subject · lineage	Reddit ▼ sortedn 242,009 postsbar: people, #1 = 9,430
1	ClaudeAnthropic	9,430#1
2	ChatGPTOpenAI	4,777#2
3	QwenAlibaba	2,767#3
4	GeminiGoogle DeepMind	2,016#4
5	Claude CodeAnthropic › Claude	1,851#5
6	GPTOpenAI	1,759#6
7	DeepSeekDeepSeek	1,683#7
8	CodexOpenAI	1,577#8
9	GrokxAI	1,122#9
10	MiniMax H-seriesMiniMax	1,041#10
11	Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft AI	722#11
12	GLMZhipu AI	563#12
13	GemmaGoogle DeepMind	555#13
14	KimiMoonshot AI	463#14
15	LlamaMeta	303#15

All 67 subjects; 18 withdrawn: too few posts to measure52 more in Reddit’s order, 25 of them unranked because their Reddit figure is hidden

All 67 subjects on one page

People on Reddit · n 242,009 posts#1 = 9,430

1Claude9,430
2ChatGPT4,777
3Qwen2,767
4Gemini2,016
5Claude Code1,851
6GPT1,759
7DeepSeek1,683
8Codex1,577
9Grok1,122
10MiniMax H-series1,041
11Microsoft Copilot722
12GLM563
13Gemma555
14Kimi463
15Llama303

All 67 subjects; 18 withdrawn: too few posts to measure52 more in Reddit’s order; hidden ones hatched

All 67 subjects on one page

Distinct people who posted about each subject, 17–23 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 Hailuo: “n 14 people, below the threshold of 20 people”. Each column’s n 242,009 posts on Reddit.

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 401 posts · 67 subjects

Qwen 19, GPT 13, Gemini 9, Claude 5 posts, and 63 more subjects

Google News n not recorded · 67 subjects

Not counted this week: Google News has no day between 17 and 23 August 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there’s no figure to show.

Exa n not recorded · 67 subjects

Not counted this week: Exa has no day between 17 and 23 August 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there’s no figure to show.

The week after

The same subjects one week later, on the platform with enough people. GLM grew on Reddit while Claude eased.

Reddit · people per subject

2026-W34
17–23 Aug 2026
n 242,009 posts

2026-W35
24–30 Aug 2026
n 244,534 posts

Distinct people per subject on each release’s board, for subjects with n ≥ 100 posts in both weeks (24 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 242,009 and 244,534 posts. 2026-W34 and 2026-W35 follow on from each other, so their lines are joined.

Release 2026-W35

Published and captured, day by day

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.

published that day
captured that day
of those, captured late (late_captured_n)
published, not collected yet

Reddit7 days: 7 backfilledown scale, top = 138,886

Mon 17

Tue 18

Wed 19

Thu 20

Fri 21

Sat 22

Sun 23

No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 138,886

Bluesky7 days: 7 not startedown scale, top = 937

Mon 17

Tue 18

Wed 19

Thu 20

Fri 21

Sat 22

Sun 23

No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 937

YouTube7 days: 7 not startedown scale, top = 1

Mon 17

Tue 18

Wed 19

Thu 20

Fri 21

Sat 22

Sun 23

No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 1

Hacker News7 days: 7 backfilledown scale, top = 195

Mon 17

Tue 18

Wed 19

Thu 20

Fri 21

Sat 22

Sun 23

No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 195

arXiv7 days: 7 backfilledown scale, top = 117

Mon 17

Tue 18

Wed 19

Thu 20

Fri 21

Sat 22

Sun 23

No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 117

Google News7 days: 7 not startedown scale, top = 1

Mon 17

Tue 18

Wed 19

Thu 20

Fri 21

Sat 22

Sun 23

No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 1

Exa7 days: 7 not startedown scale, top = 197

Mon 17

Tue 18

Wed 19

Thu 20

Fri 21

Sat 22

Sun 23

No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 197

Per platform and day, 17–23 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.17–23 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

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.

Claude family · Anthropic

Claude9,430

› Claude Code1,851

› Claude Cowork228

› Claude app189

› Claude API57

Qwen family · Alibaba

Qwen2,767

› Qwen Code43

Gemini family · Google DeepMind

Gemini2,016

› Gemini API (Google AI Studio)67

› Gemini app23

DeepSeek family · DeepSeek

DeepSeek1,683

› DeepSeek Harness220

› DeepSeek API89

Grok family · xAI

Grok1,122

› Grok app53

› Grok Build20

Qwen2,767

› Qwen Code 43

Gemini2,016

› Gemini API (Google AI Studio) 67 · Gemini app 23

DeepSeek1,683

› DeepSeek Harness 220 · DeepSeek API 89

Grok1,122

› Grok app 53 · Grok Build 20

People on Reddit, 17–23 Aug 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 13:30Z, all on Reddit’s one scale (#1 = 9,430). Groups follow each subject’s stored lineage.

Platform totals

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.

Posts, threads and people per platform, 17–23 Aug 2026
Platform	Posts	Threads	People	Author cov.
Reddit		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

17–23 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 242,009 posts on Reddit, not recorded on Bluesky, 281 on Hacker News, 401 on arXiv, not recorded on Google News and not recorded on Exa.

Against the previous reading

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.

2026-W34 against the previous reading: share of posts 2026-W34 against the previous reading: people

Coverage this week

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.

What AIDRAN was collecting on each platform, each day, 17–23 Aug 2026
Platform	Mon 17	Tue 18	Wed 19	Thu 20	Fri 21	Sat 22	Sun 23
Reddit	Mon 17 Aug: backfilled	Tue 18 Aug: backfilled	Wed 19 Aug: backfilled	Thu 20 Aug: backfilled	Fri 21 Aug: backfilled	Sat 22 Aug: backfilled	Sun 23 Aug: backfilled
Bluesky	Mon 17 Aug: not started	Tue 18 Aug: not started	Wed 19 Aug: not started	Thu 20 Aug: not started	Fri 21 Aug: not started	Sat 22 Aug: not started	Sun 23 Aug: not started
YouTube	Mon 17 Aug: not started	Tue 18 Aug: not started	Wed 19 Aug: not started	Thu 20 Aug: not started	Fri 21 Aug: not started	Sat 22 Aug: not started	Sun 23 Aug: not started
Hacker News	Mon 17 Aug: backfilled	Tue 18 Aug: backfilled	Wed 19 Aug: backfilled	Thu 20 Aug: backfilled	Fri 21 Aug: backfilled	Sat 22 Aug: backfilled	Sun 23 Aug: backfilled
arXiv	Mon 17 Aug: backfilled	Tue 18 Aug: backfilled	Wed 19 Aug: backfilled	Thu 20 Aug: backfilled	Fri 21 Aug: backfilled	Sat 22 Aug: backfilled	Sun 23 Aug: backfilled
Google News	Mon 17 Aug: not started	Tue 18 Aug: not started	Wed 19 Aug: not started	Thu 20 Aug: not started	Fri 21 Aug: not started	Sat 22 Aug: not started	Sun 23 Aug: not started
Exa	Mon 17 Aug: not started	Tue 18 Aug: not started	Wed 19 Aug: not started	Thu 20 Aug: not started	Fri 21 Aug: not started	Sat 22 Aug: not started	Sun 23 Aug: not started

What the fills and flags meanactive, episodic, not started, no lane; partial, low capture, late heavy; settled

: Active. AIDRAN was collecting that day.
: Episodic. Collected in batches, not continuously.
: Not started. Collection hadn’t begun; posts published that day were captured later and do count.
: No lane. Collection had stopped.
flag: Partial, low capture, late heavy. A day captured only in part, captured thinly, or whose posts mostly arrived late. On a phone a bar marks a flagged day.
settled: Settled. Every day that can settle has settled; the rest say not applicable. How settling works

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.

Coverage, day by day, for every week

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Release 2026-W34

The week in brief · 2026-W34

What this release found

The summary table

The week after

Published and captured, day by day

Families and their products

Platform totals

Against the previous reading

Coverage this week

Cite this release

Notices on this release’s readings

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