Developer tooling+20.6%
1.5B/wkTools
Analytics
Where AI is moving: research, developer adoption and money, side by side for each field.
Where AI is moving: research, developer adoption and money, side by side for each field.
Each signal against the 90 days before. What's leading compares each field with the same signal across everything ByteTrail tracks ("all"), so a market-wide swing doesn't make every field look alike. Papers compare 16-day halves: paper history doesn't reach back further yet.
| Field | Papers | Downloads | Raised | Rounds | What's leading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robotics | 32 n/a | — | $11.9B | 220 +61.8% | Money-led funding rounds +62% (all: +16%) |
| Inference & serving | 670 −15.8% | 1.9B −41.2% | $12.4B | 70 +40.0% | Money-led funding rounds +40% (all: +16%) |
| Voice AI | 245 −25.8% | — | $998.6M | 29 +38.1% | Money-led funding rounds +38% (all: +16%) |
| Agents | 1,188 +1.0% | 7.1B +3.0% | $5.3B | 148 +3.5% | Research-led papers +1% (all: -10%) |
| Databases | 1 n/a | — | $1.9B | 91 +19.7% | In line funding rounds +20% (all: +16%) |
| Frontier LLMs | 1,049 −6.3% | 8.9B −11.1% | $3.1B | 25 −21.9% | In line papers -6% (all: -10%), downloads -11% (all: +7%), funding rounds -22% (all: +16%) |
| Developer tooling | 3 n/a | — | $11.8B | 164 +12.3% | In line funding rounds +12% (all: +16%) |
| DevOps & cloud | 0 n/a | — | $11.8B | 164 +12.3% | In line funding rounds +12% (all: +16%) |
| Training & fine-tuning | 64 n/a | 4.8B −7.8% | — | — | Lagging downloads -8% (all: +7%) |
| Evals | 108 n/a | 4.8B −7.8% | — | — | Lagging downloads -8% (all: +7%) |
| Code models | 24 n/a | 460.1M −8.0% | $1.5B | 23 −8.0% | Lagging downloads -8% (all: +7%), funding rounds -8% (all: +16%) |
| Small LLMs | 12 n/a | 1.9B −41.2% | $3.1B | 25 −21.9% | Lagging downloads -41% (all: +7%), funding rounds -22% (all: +16%) |
| RAG | 15 n/a | 942.1M −33.7% | — | — | Lagging downloads -34% (all: +7%) |
| Vector databases | 0 n/a | 942.1M −33.7% | — | — | Lagging downloads -34% (all: +7%) |
Downloads: PyPI, npm and crates.io for the field's Stacks tools. Raised: rounds in the field's Market sector. News attention comes once news is tagged by field.
| Agents | Voice AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 27 | — | — |
| Aug 3 | — | — |
| Aug 10 | — | — |
| Aug 17 | — | — |
| Aug 24 | — | — |
| Aug 31 | — | — |
| Sep 7 | — | — |
| Sep 14 | — | — |
| Sep 21 | 439 | 163 |
| Sep 28 | 687 | 147 |
| Oct 5 | 502 | 123 |
| Oct 12 | 594 | 105 |
| Agents | |
|---|---|
| Jul 27 | 649M |
| Aug 3 | 656M |
| Aug 10 | 647.2M |
| Aug 17 | 674.3M |
| Aug 24 | 481.3M |
| Aug 31 | 446.1M |
| Sep 7 | 424M |
| Sep 14 | 464.1M |
| Sep 21 | 524.3M |
| Sep 28 | 581.4M |
| Oct 5 | 545.6M |
| Oct 12 | 460.8M |
| Agents | Voice AI | |
|---|---|---|
| May | $1.2B | $50.7M |
| Jun | $1.1B | $258.3M |
| Jul | $2.6B | $235.7M |
| Aug | $614.7M | $434.7M |
| Sep | $2.9B | $388.8M |
| Oct | $1.2B | $60.1M |