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Top Gainers

2026 (projected)
Topic Mentions Forecast YoY Change
OpenClaw 7,670 (6,682 recorded) +6628.1%
Agent sandbox 372 (324 recorded) +3281.8%
Token engineering 57 (50 recorded) +2750.0%
Cost per task 614 (535 recorded) +2174.1%
Loop engineering 900 (784 recorded) +1598.1%

Top Declines

2026 (projected)
Topic Mentions Forecast YoY Change
Reinforcement learning 1,375 (1,198 recorded) -27.5%
Edge Computing 564 (491 recorded) -22.7%
Data Pipeline 6,264 (5,457 recorded) -8.8%
AI Model Fine-tuning 6,928 (6,036 recorded) -8.6%
Zero Trust 2,018 (1,758 recorded) -7.5%

All Tracked Topics

Filter Data
Topic Keywords Mentions Posts Companies Forecast YoY Change
MCP Concept mcp model context protocol 93,096 (81,108 recorded) 10,300 (8,974 recorded) 420 +120.1%
LLM Concept llm large language model llms +1 more 79,825 (69,546 recorded) 15,138 (13,189 recorded) 452 +42.9%
AI Agents Concept ai agent ai agents agentic ai +2 more 70,639 (61,543 recorded) 16,944 (14,762 recorded) 452 +106.9%
Real-time Concept real-time realtime real time +2 more 68,559 (59,731 recorded) 16,944 (14,762 recorded) 451 +13.4%
Observability Concept observability o11y tracing +1 more 41,308 (35,989 recorded) 9,629 (8,389 recorded) 415 +69.6%
Voice AI Concept voice ai voice agent voice agents +7 more 32,120 (27,984 recorded) 3,508 (3,056 recorded) 176 +190.9%
Vector Search Concept vector search vector database vector db +3 more 24,542 (21,382 recorded) 5,412 (4,715 recorded) 361 +15.4%
Secrets Management Concept secrets management secret management vault +1 more 22,934 (19,981 recorded) 5,364 (4,673 recorded) 341 +105.1%
Kubernetes Concept kubernetes k8s k8 +1 more 19,982 (17,409 recorded) 4,771 (4,157 recorded) 301 +7.3%
AI Coding Assistant Concept copilot ai coding code assistant +2 more 18,340 (15,978 recorded) 6,237 (5,434 recorded) 383 +124.0%
RAG Concept rag retrieval augmented generation retrieval-augmented 16,505 (14,380 recorded) 3,373 (2,939 recorded) 268 +1.6%
Serverless Concept serverless lambda functions as a service +1 more 12,606 (10,983 recorded) 3,595 (3,132 recorded) 293 +23.6%
Platform Engineering Concept platform engineering internal developer platform idp +1 more 11,438 (9,965 recorded) 3,459 (3,014 recorded) 273 +138.2%
OpenTelemetry Concept opentelemetry otel open telemetry 9,008 (7,848 recorded) 1,783 (1,553 recorded) 198 +44.1%
OpenClaw Concept openclaw clawdbot moltbot +2 more 7,670 (6,682 recorded) 876 (763 recorded) 175 +6628.1%
AI Model Fine-tuning Concept fine-tuning fine tuning finetuning +4 more 6,928 (6,036 recorded) 2,346 (2,044 recorded) 260 -8.6%
Multi-agent systems Concept multi-agent distributed agents distributed agent systems +4 more 6,367 (5,547 recorded) 2,136 (1,861 recorded) 252 +98.7%
Data Pipeline Concept data pipeline etl elt +2 more 6,264 (5,457 recorded) 2,672 (2,328 recorded) 256 -8.8%
Developer Experience Concept developer experience dx devx +1 more 5,889 (5,131 recorded) 3,466 (3,020 recorded) 325 -4.4%
AI Guardrails Concept ai guardrails ai safety responsible ai +6 more 5,099 (4,442 recorded) 2,055 (1,790 recorded) 218 +31.5%
Agent Context Engineering Concept agent context context engineering agent context engineering +2 more 2,562 (2,232 recorded) 1,007 (877 recorded) 203 +116.6%
Agent Evaluations Concept agent evals agent evaluation trajectory evals +2 more 2,313 (2,015 recorded) 923 (804 recorded) 132 +176.0%
Harness engineering Concept harness engineering agent harness engineering agent behavior +5 more 2,133 (1,858 recorded) 1,550 (1,350 recorded) 233 +409.1%
Subagents Concept subagents agent delegation agent fan-out +3 more 2,084 (1,816 recorded) 803 (700 recorded) 192 +1289.3%
Zero Trust Concept zero trust zero-trust ztna 2,018 (1,758 recorded) 857 (747 recorded) 133 -7.5%
Reinforcement learning Concept reinforcement learning reward-based learning rlhf +3 more 1,375 (1,198 recorded) 761 (663 recorded) 136 -27.5%
TPUs Concept tensor processing unit tpu tpus +3 more 943 (822 recorded) 154 (134 recorded) 40 +75.9%
Cloud agents Concept cloud agents server-side agents managed ai agents +4 more 914 (796 recorded) 356 (310 recorded) 99 +1592.6%
Loop engineering Concept agent loops agentic loops loop engineering +4 more 900 (784 recorded) 545 (475 recorded) 144 +1598.1%
Local AI Concept local ai models on-device ai private ai +6 more 847 (738 recorded) 536 (467 recorded) 105 +152.8%
Cost per task Concept cost per task cost per successful task intelligence per dollar +5 more 614 (535 recorded) 363 (316 recorded) 104 +2174.1%
Edge Computing Concept edge computing edge function edge runtime +1 more 564 (491 recorded) 333 (290 recorded) 86 -22.7%
WebMCP Concept WebMCP 388 (338 recorded) 52 (45 recorded) 23 --
Agent sandbox Concept ai agent sandbox sandboxed agent runtime agent container +6 more 372 (324 recorded) 158 (138 recorded) 51 +3281.8%
MLX Concept mlx mlx framework apple silicon ml +2 more 339 (295 recorded) 73 (64 recorded) 16 +413.6%
Web search for AI agents Concept web search for ai agents ai search api agentic retrieval +8 more 306 (267 recorded) 130 (113 recorded) 52 +343.5%
Agent Plugins Concept agent plugins specification agent plugins v1 agent plugins 1.0 +5 more 124 (108 recorded) 24 (21 recorded) 13 --
AI Coding Agent Pricing Concept ai coding subscription llm coding pricing ai coding agent pricing +8 more 115 (100 recorded) 47 (41 recorded) 22 +505.3%
Token engineering Concept tokenbudgeting token cost optimization token spend control +3 more 57 (50 recorded) 34 (30 recorded) 18 +2750.0%
Domain-specific model Concept domain-specific model narrow-domain model domain-specific language model +7 more 21 (18 recorded) 15 (13 recorded) 10 +61.5%
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