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Top Gainers

August 2026 Actuals
Topic Mentions MoM Change
WebMCP 77 +63.8%
Cloud agents 101 +42.3%
Kubernetes 2,727 +41.7%
Subagents 274 +38.4%
Agent sandbox 65 +38.3%

Top Declines

August 2026 Actuals
Topic Mentions MoM Change
TPUs 49 -76.2%
OpenClaw 140 -50.2%
Loop engineering 71 -48.9%
AI Model Fine-tuning 497 -47.2%
Local AI 91 -36.8%

All Tracked Topics

Filter Data
Topic Keywords Mentions Posts Companies MoM Change Projected
MCP Concept mcp model context protocol 7,908 871 216 +0.2% --
AI Agents Concept ai agent ai agents agentic ai +2 more 5,300 1,278 251 -16.5% --
LLM Concept llm large language model llms +1 more 5,038 1,043 237 -28.5% --
Real-time Concept real-time realtime real time +2 more 4,004 1,080 227 -33.3% --
Observability Concept observability o11y tracing +1 more 3,068 754 188 -23.8% --
Kubernetes Concept kubernetes k8s k8 +1 more 2,727 389 113 +41.7% --
Voice AI Concept voice ai voice agent voice agents +7 more 2,559 276 57 -29.5% --
Vector Search Concept vector search vector database vector db +3 more 2,352 383 130 +4.7% --
Secrets Management Concept secrets management secret management vault +1 more 2,151 492 135 -3.2% --
AI Coding Assistant Concept copilot ai coding code assistant +2 more 1,462 484 142 -16.7% --
RAG Concept rag retrieval augmented generation retrieval-augmented 1,088 216 77 -10.3% --
Platform Engineering Concept platform engineering internal developer platform idp +1 more 944 263 80 -16.2% --
Serverless Concept serverless lambda functions as a service +1 more 833 225 101 +13.8% --
OpenTelemetry Concept opentelemetry otel open telemetry 656 156 57 -35.1% --
AI Model Fine-tuning Concept fine-tuning fine tuning finetuning +4 more 497 159 63 -47.2% --
Developer Experience Concept developer experience dx devx +1 more 475 244 89 -16.2% --
AI Guardrails Concept ai guardrails ai safety responsible ai +6 more 462 150 54 +24.2% --
Multi-agent systems Concept multi-agent distributed agents distributed agent systems +4 more 420 170 65 -19.7% --
Data Pipeline Concept data pipeline etl elt +2 more 363 146 74 -30.7% --
Subagents Concept subagents agent delegation agent fan-out +3 more 274 89 42 +38.4% --
Harness engineering Concept harness engineering agent harness engineering agent behavior +5 more 182 128 59 -31.1% --
Zero Trust Concept zero trust zero-trust ztna 159 65 28 -35.1% --
OpenClaw Concept openclaw clawdbot moltbot +2 more 140 41 21 -50.2% --
Cloud agents Concept cloud agents server-side agents managed ai agents +4 more 101 47 16 +42.3% --
Local AI Concept local ai models on-device ai private ai +6 more 91 51 24 -36.8% --
Agent Plugins Concept agent plugins specification agent plugins v1 agent plugins 1.0 +5 more 79 9 8 -- --
Reinforcement learning Concept reinforcement learning reward-based learning rlhf +3 more 79 41 20 -19.4% --
WebMCP Concept WebMCP 77 10 6 +63.8% --
Loop engineering Concept agent loops agentic loops loop engineering +4 more 71 48 38 -48.9% --
Agent sandbox Concept ai agent sandbox sandboxed agent runtime agent container +6 more 65 21 12 +38.3% --
Cost per task Concept cost per task cost per successful task intelligence per dollar +5 more 64 45 24 -20.0% --
TPUs Concept tensor processing unit tpu tpus +3 more 49 6 5 -76.2% --
Edge Computing Concept edge computing edge function edge runtime +1 more 33 17 10 -19.5% --
MLX Concept mlx mlx framework apple silicon ml +2 more 24 10 5 -25.0% --
Web search for AI agents Concept web search for ai agents ai search api agentic retrieval +8 more 16 13 12 -36.0% --
AI Coding Agent Pricing Concept ai coding subscription llm coding pricing ai coding agent pricing +8 more 6 3 2 +20.0% --
Token engineering Concept tokenbudgeting token cost optimization token spend control +3 more 4 4 3 0% --
Domain-specific model Concept domain-specific model narrow-domain model domain-specific language model +7 more 1 1 1 -- --
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