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Top Gainers

September 2026 Actuals
Topic Mentions MoM Change
Domain-specific model 4 +300.0%
MLX 79 +229.2%
Edge Computing 89 +169.7%
Cost per task 130 +103.1%
AI Coding Agent Pricing 11 +83.3%

Top Declines

September 2026 Actuals
Topic Mentions MoM Change
Agent Plugins 9 -88.6%
Web search for AI agents 11 -38.9%
Vector Search 1,569 -33.3%
Voice AI 1,721 -32.7%
Kubernetes 1,849 -32.7%

All Tracked Topics

Filter Data
Topic Keywords Mentions Posts Companies MoM Change Projected
MCP Concept mcp model context protocol 10,048 920 215 +24.1% --
LLM Concept llm large language model llms +1 more 5,499 1,159 239 +8.8% --
AI Agents Concept ai agent ai agents agentic ai +2 more 5,008 1,406 269 -6.6% --
Real-time Concept real-time realtime real time +2 more 4,203 1,081 238 +3.4% --
Observability Concept observability o11y tracing +1 more 2,681 730 188 -13.2% --
Kubernetes Concept kubernetes k8s k8 +1 more 1,849 405 103 -32.7% --
Secrets Management Concept secrets management secret management vault +1 more 1,757 503 138 -18.6% --
Voice AI Concept voice ai voice agent voice agents +7 more 1,721 304 50 -32.7% --
Vector Search Concept vector search vector database vector db +3 more 1,569 377 123 -33.3% --
AI Coding Assistant Concept copilot ai coding code assistant +2 more 1,458 555 143 -0.5% --
Platform Engineering Concept platform engineering internal developer platform idp +1 more 1,161 347 96 +23.0% --
Serverless Concept serverless lambda functions as a service +1 more 1,107 279 101 +32.3% --
RAG Concept rag retrieval augmented generation retrieval-augmented 835 207 84 -24.2% --
OpenTelemetry Concept opentelemetry otel open telemetry 658 130 59 +0.2% --
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 558 275 91 +17.2% --
Multi-agent systems Concept multi-agent distributed agents distributed agent systems +4 more 449 142 70 +6.4% --
AI Guardrails Concept ai guardrails ai safety responsible ai +6 more 422 177 64 -9.1% --
Data Pipeline Concept data pipeline etl elt +2 more 270 146 76 -29.3% --
Subagents Concept subagents agent delegation agent fan-out +3 more 256 73 52 -6.9% --
Agent Evaluations Concept agent evals agent evaluation trajectory evals +2 more 196 104 35 +13.3% --
Harness engineering Concept harness engineering agent harness engineering agent behavior +5 more 162 112 61 -11.5% --
Local AI Concept local ai models on-device ai private ai +6 more 161 68 21 +54.8% --
Reinforcement learning Concept reinforcement learning reward-based learning rlhf +3 more 147 67 39 +79.3% --
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 94 44 26 -6.9% --
WebMCP Concept WebMCP 90 12 6 +16.9% --
Edge Computing Concept edge computing edge function edge runtime +1 more 89 31 11 +169.7% --
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% --
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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