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Top Gainers

2026 (projected)
Topic Mentions Forecast YoY Change
OpenClaw 7,448 (6,020 recorded) +6433.3%
Token engineering 61 (49 recorded) +2950.0%
Agent sandbox 330 (267 recorded) +2900.0%
Cost per task 589 (476 recorded) +2165.4%
Loop engineering 904 (731 recorded) +1605.7%

Top Declines

2026 (projected)
Topic Mentions Forecast YoY Change
Reinforcement learning 1,325 (1,071 recorded) -29.0%
Edge Computing 570 (461 recorded) -21.9%
AI Model Fine-tuning 6,831 (5,521 recorded) -6.6%
Data Pipeline 6,497 (5,251 recorded) -5.2%
Zero Trust 2,079 (1,680 recorded) -4.6%

All Tracked Topics

Filter Data
Topic Keywords Mentions Posts Companies Forecast YoY Change
MCP Concept mcp model context protocol 89,927 (72,681 recorded) 9,840 (7,953 recorded) 413 +115.9%
LLM Concept llm large language model llms +1 more 79,962 (64,627 recorded) 15,054 (12,167 recorded) 447 +44.8%
Real-time Concept real-time realtime real time +2 more 70,214 (56,748 recorded) 17,162 (13,871 recorded) 440 +16.6%
AI Agents Concept ai agent ai agents agentic ai +2 more 67,383 (54,460 recorded) 16,455 (13,299 recorded) 446 +103.4%
Observability Concept observability o11y tracing +1 more 42,274 (34,167 recorded) 9,662 (7,809 recorded) 406 +74.4%
Voice AI Concept voice ai voice agent voice agents +7 more 31,682 (25,606 recorded) 3,447 (2,786 recorded) 169 +192.4%
Vector Search Concept vector search vector database vector db +3 more 24,850 (20,084 recorded) 5,464 (4,416 recorded) 352 +18.3%
Kubernetes Concept kubernetes k8s k8 +1 more 24,570 (19,858 recorded) 4,613 (3,728 recorded) 290 +32.9%
Secrets Management Concept secrets management secret management vault +1 more 20,983 (16,959 recorded) 5,134 (4,149 recorded) 324 +87.8%
AI Coding Assistant Concept copilot ai coding code assistant +2 more 18,109 (14,636 recorded) 6,152 (4,972 recorded) 376 +121.5%
RAG Concept rag retrieval augmented generation retrieval-augmented 16,950 (13,699 recorded) 3,448 (2,787 recorded) 259 +5.2%
Serverless Concept serverless lambda functions as a service +1 more 12,076 (9,760 recorded) 3,541 (2,862 recorded) 285 +18.4%
Platform Engineering Concept platform engineering internal developer platform idp +1 more 11,246 (9,089 recorded) 3,356 (2,712 recorded) 260 +134.5%
OpenTelemetry Concept opentelemetry otel open telemetry 8,767 (7,086 recorded) 1,730 (1,398 recorded) 190 +40.2%
OpenClaw Concept openclaw clawdbot moltbot +2 more 7,448 (6,020 recorded) 866 (700 recorded) 168 +6433.3%
AI Model Fine-tuning Concept fine-tuning fine tuning finetuning +4 more 6,831 (5,521 recorded) 2,296 (1,856 recorded) 251 -6.6%
Multi-agent systems Concept multi-agent distributed agents distributed agent systems +4 more 6,595 (5,330 recorded) 2,170 (1,754 recorded) 247 +106.7%
Data Pipeline Concept data pipeline etl elt +2 more 6,497 (5,251 recorded) 2,750 (2,223 recorded) 249 -5.2%
Developer Experience Concept developer experience dx devx +1 more 6,180 (4,995 recorded) 3,526 (2,850 recorded) 317 +0.4%
AI Guardrails Concept ai guardrails ai safety responsible ai +6 more 4,707 (3,804 recorded) 2,024 (1,636 recorded) 208 +21.6%
Agent Evaluations Concept agent evals agent evaluation trajectory evals +2 more 2,369 (1,915 recorded) 919 (743 recorded) 124 +186.1%
Harness engineering Concept harness engineering agent harness engineering agent behavior +5 more 2,154 (1,741 recorded) 1,560 (1,261 recorded) 222 +416.5%
Subagents Concept subagents agent delegation agent fan-out +3 more 2,108 (1,704 recorded) 782 (632 recorded) 183 +1374.1%
Zero Trust Concept zero trust zero-trust ztna 2,079 (1,680 recorded) 887 (717 recorded) 130 -4.6%
Reinforcement learning Concept reinforcement learning reward-based learning rlhf +3 more 1,325 (1,071 recorded) 721 (583 recorded) 130 -29.0%
Local AI Concept local ai models on-device ai private ai +6 more 951 (769 recorded) 515 (416 recorded) 98 +185.6%
Loop engineering Concept agent loops agentic loops loop engineering +4 more 904 (731 recorded) 542 (438 recorded) 139 +1605.7%
TPUs Concept tensor processing unit tpu tpus +3 more 901 (728 recorded) 144 (116 recorded) 37 +68.4%
Cloud agents Concept cloud agents server-side agents managed ai agents +4 more 783 (633 recorded) 322 (260 recorded) 88 +1350.0%
Cost per task Concept cost per task cost per successful task intelligence per dollar +5 more 589 (476 recorded) 339 (274 recorded) 94 +2165.4%
Edge Computing Concept edge computing edge function edge runtime +1 more 570 (461 recorded) 298 (241 recorded) 83 -21.9%
WebMCP Concept WebMCP 401 (324 recorded) 51 (41 recorded) 20 --
Agent sandbox Concept ai agent sandbox sandboxed agent runtime agent container +6 more 330 (267 recorded) 144 (116 recorded) 48 +2900.0%
MLX Concept mlx mlx framework apple silicon ml +2 more 327 (264 recorded) 72 (58 recorded) 15 +395.5%
Web search for AI agents Concept web search for ai agents ai search api agentic retrieval +8 more 273 (221 recorded) 125 (101 recorded) 49 +295.7%
Agent Plugins Concept agent plugins specification agent plugins v1 agent plugins 1.0 +5 more 129 (104 recorded) 22 (18 recorded) 12 --
AI Coding Agent Pricing Concept ai coding subscription llm coding pricing ai coding agent pricing +8 more 115 (93 recorded) 47 (38 recorded) 21 +505.3%
Token engineering Concept tokenbudgeting token cost optimization token spend control +3 more 61 (49 recorded) 36 (29 recorded) 17 +2950.0%
Domain-specific model Concept domain-specific model narrow-domain model domain-specific language model +7 more 22 (18 recorded) 16 (13 recorded) 10 +69.2%
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