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Top Gainers

September 2026 Actuals
Topic Mentions MoM Change
Domain-specific model 4 +300.0%
MLX 79 +229.2%
Cost per task 130 +103.1%
AI Coding Agent Pricing 11 +83.3%
Local AI 161 +73.1%

Top Declines

September 2026 Actuals
Topic Mentions MoM Change
Agent Plugins 9 -88.6%
Web search for AI agents 11 -38.9%
Voice AI 1,647 -35.6%
Vector Search 1,566 -33.5%
Data Pipeline 265 -30.4%

All Tracked Topics

Filter Data
Topic Keywords Mentions Posts Companies MoM Change Projected
MCP Concept mcp model context protocol 9,896 898 211 +22.3% --
LLM Concept llm large language model llms +1 more 5,434 1,137 235 +7.6% --
AI Agents Concept ai agent ai agents agentic ai +2 more 4,844 1,380 268 -9.4% --
Real-time Concept real-time realtime real time +2 more 4,147 1,061 235 +2.5% --
Observability Concept observability o11y tracing +1 more 2,645 724 186 -14.3% --
Kubernetes Concept kubernetes k8s k8 +1 more 2,366 397 100 -13.2% --
Secrets Management Concept secrets management secret management vault +1 more 1,728 487 134 -19.9% --
Voice AI Concept voice ai voice agent voice agents +7 more 1,647 295 49 -35.6% --
Vector Search Concept vector search vector database vector db +3 more 1,566 376 122 -33.5% --
AI Coding Assistant Concept copilot ai coding code assistant +2 more 1,430 540 138 -2.4% --
Platform Engineering Concept platform engineering internal developer platform idp +1 more 1,145 344 95 +21.3% --
Serverless Concept serverless lambda functions as a service +1 more 1,106 273 99 +32.3% --
RAG Concept rag retrieval augmented generation retrieval-augmented 834 206 83 -24.3% --
OpenTelemetry Concept opentelemetry otel open telemetry 658 129 59 +0.3% --
AI Model Fine-tuning Concept fine-tuning fine tuning finetuning +4 more 615 178 66 +23.5% --
Developer Experience Concept developer experience dx devx +1 more 556 273 90 +16.8% --
Multi-agent systems Concept multi-agent distributed agents distributed agent systems +4 more 441 139 69 +4.5% --
AI Guardrails Concept ai guardrails ai safety responsible ai +6 more 360 172 63 -22.4% --
Data Pipeline Concept data pipeline etl elt +2 more 265 144 75 -30.4% --
Subagents Concept subagents agent delegation agent fan-out +3 more 251 70 50 -8.7% --
Harness engineering Concept harness engineering agent harness engineering agent behavior +5 more 161 111 60 -12.0% --
Local AI Concept local ai models on-device ai private ai +6 more 161 68 21 +73.1% --
Reinforcement learning Concept reinforcement learning reward-based learning rlhf +3 more 139 65 38 +69.5% --
Cost per task Concept cost per task cost per successful task intelligence per dollar +5 more 130 68 32 +103.1% --
OpenClaw Concept openclaw clawdbot moltbot +2 more 123 39 24 -12.1% --
Zero Trust Concept zero trust zero-trust ztna 111 53 24 -30.2% --
Loop engineering Concept agent loops agentic loops loop engineering +4 more 96 53 32 +31.5% --
Cloud agents Concept cloud agents server-side agents managed ai agents +4 more 92 43 25 -8.9% --
WebMCP Concept WebMCP 90 12 6 +16.9% --
TPUs Concept tensor processing unit tpu tpus +3 more 81 8 5 +65.3% --
MLX Concept mlx mlx framework apple silicon ml +2 more 79 9 4 +229.2% --
Agent sandbox Concept ai agent sandbox sandboxed agent runtime agent container +6 more 74 26 10 +13.8% --
Edge Computing Concept edge computing edge function edge runtime +1 more 50 21 10 +51.5% --
AI Coding Agent Pricing Concept ai coding subscription llm coding pricing ai coding agent pricing +8 more 11 8 7 +83.3% --
Web search for AI agents Concept web search for ai agents ai search api agentic retrieval +8 more 11 7 7 -38.9% --
Agent Plugins Concept agent plugins specification agent plugins v1 agent plugins 1.0 +5 more 9 6 4 -88.6% --
Domain-specific model Concept domain-specific model narrow-domain model domain-specific language model +7 more 4 4 4 +300.0% --
Token engineering Concept tokenbudgeting token cost optimization token spend control +3 more 3 2 2 -25.0% --
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