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Hacker News mentions increased 250% over the last 30 days. Hacker News is discussion volume, not adoption.
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54 company pages · updated May 29, 2026
AI Infrastructure: 680.7M/30d downloads and 165.9K public importing repos across 54 company pages.
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All research in this category →Hacker News mentions increased 250% over the last 30 days. Hacker News is discussion volume, not adoption.
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As of May 18
AWS Bedrock
Hacker News mentions increased 57.7% over the last 30 days. Hacker News is discussion volume, not adoption.
As of May 18
Cerebras
Hacker News mentions increased 36.7% over the last 30 days. Hacker News is discussion volume, not adoption.
Overview
AgentOps: Hacker News mentions increased 250% over the last 30 days. Hugging Face is another strong current data point in the category.
Trend charts start at May 22, 2026 when historical category data is available.
Trends
Historical Hacker News discussion recorded for this category over time.
HN Mentions grew from 1,723 to 1,876 (+8.9%) over the last 30 days.
Source: Algolia HN Search API | Methodology | CC-BY-NC 4.0
| Date | hn mentions |
|---|---|
| Feb 16, 2026 | 1,723 |
| Mar 18, 2026 | 2,115 |
| Apr 17, 2026 | 2,215 |
| May 17, 2026 | 1,936 |
| May 22, 2026 | 1,876 |
Cumulative disclosed funding raised by companies in this category over time.
Total Funding grew from $12.9B to $48.3B (+275.3%) over the last 30 days.
Source: Public records | Methodology | CC-BY-NC 4.0
| Date | funding |
|---|---|
| Feb 16, 2026 | $12.9B |
| Mar 18, 2026 | $48.3B |
| Apr 17, 2026 | $48.3B |
| May 17, 2026 | $48.3B |
| May 22, 2026 | $48.3B |
Company pages
Company pages with current public data in this category. The full table shows each metric.
#1 of 54 in AI Infrastructure
Open-source ML platform hosting models, datasets, and Spaces
Hugging Face: 142.6M/30d downloads; 33.0K importing repositories.
Qdrant: 27.8M/30d downloads; 1.9K importing repositories.
#3 of 54 in AI Infrastructure
Open-source vector database. GraphQL and REST APIs for AI search.
Weaviate: 131.9M/30d downloads; 2.9K importing repositories.
Weights & Biases: 25.6M/30d downloads; 9.3K importing repositories.
#5 of 54 in AI Infrastructure
Open-source LLM observability platform. Monitor and debug AI applications.
Langfuse: 26.9M/30d downloads; 4 importing repositories.
#6 of 54 in AI Infrastructure
Open-source vector database. Embeddings database for AI applications.
Chroma: 14.9M/30d downloads; 6.5K importing repositories.
LanceDB: 10.2M/30d downloads; 453 importing repositories.
#8 of 54 in AI Infrastructure
Fast inference for LLMs. Hardware-accelerated AI inference platform.
Groq: 20.4M/30d downloads.
vLLM: 6.0M/30d downloads; 5 importing repositories.
Databricks: 111.7M/30d downloads; 93 importing repositories.
Category data
Default sort shows category position inside AI Infrastructure. The availability row shows how many company pages currently have each metric. Unavailable means no public data is shown for that company metric.
Metric availability
Company pages with data shown
| Hugging Face Open-source ML platform hosting models, datasets, and Spaces | #1 | 85 | 142.6M | 33.0K | 7 | $394M |
| Qdrant Open-source vector similarity search engine. Fast and scalable. | #2 | 81 | 27.8M | 1.9K | 1 | $30M |
| Weaviate Open-source vector database. GraphQL and REST APIs for AI search. | #3 | 81 | 131.9M | 2.9K | 0 | $67M |
| Weights & Biases ML experiment tracking and model management platform. | #4 | 80 | 25.6M | 9.3K | 0 | $250M |
| Langfuse Open-source LLM observability platform. Monitor and debug AI applications. | #5 | 78 | 26.9M | 4 | 1 | $5M |
| Chroma Open-source vector database. Embeddings database for AI applications. | #6 | 77 | 14.9M | 6.5K | 0 | $18M |
| LanceDB Serverless vector database built on Lance columnar format | #7 | 72 | 10.2M | 453 | 0 | $10M |
| Groq Fast inference for LLMs. Hardware-accelerated AI inference platform. | #8 | 72 | 20.4M | 0 | 1 | $1.7B |
| vLLM Fast LLM inference engine. High-throughput serving for LLMs. | #9 | 71 | 6.0M | 5 | 2 | Unavailable |
| Databricks Data and AI platform, creator of MLflow and Dolly | #10 | 71 | 111.7M | 93 | 2 | $20.0B |
| Modal Cloud platform for running AI workloads. Serverless ML infrastructure. | #11 | 70 | 46.8M | 179 | 0 | $23M |
| Fal.ai Fast AI inference API. Run Stable Diffusion and other models at scale. | #12 | 67 | 6.6M | 0 | 1 | $23M |
| Milvus Open-source vector database. Scalable similarity search engine. | #13 | 67 | 6.5M | 2.2K | 0 | $113M |
| MLflow Open-source platform for the ML lifecycle including experiment tracking and model registry | #14 | 67 | 36.2M | 5.1K | 0 | Unavailable |
| Replicate Platform to run and deploy ML models via API. | #15 | 67 | 3.1M | 1.7K | 1 | $98M |
| Fireworks AI Fast and efficient generative AI inference platform | #16 | 61 | 5.3M | 1 | 0 | $77M |
| Browserbase Headless browser infrastructure for AI agents and web automation | #17 | 59 | 3.7M | 0 | 0 | $28M |
| E2B Cloud sandboxes for securely executing AI-generated code | #18 | 59 | 7.4M | 2 | 1 | $12M |
| Lightning AI Deep learning framework and AI development platform | #19 | 58 | 5.5M | 903 | 0 | $59M |
| Pinecone Vector database for AI applications. Powers semantic search and RAG. | #20 | 57 | 4.1M | 7.8K | 0 | $138M |
| OpenRouter Unified API for multiple AI models. Access GPT-4, Claude, Llama in one place. | #21 | 56 | 2.1M | 0 | 0 | Unavailable |
| Together AI Open-source model inference platform. Fast and cost-effective. | #22 | 54 | 6.1M | 20 | 0 | $534M |
| Arize AI ML and LLM observability platform for monitoring and evaluation | #23 | 54 | 853.3K | 4 | 0 | $61M |
| Baseten ML model serving platform with GPU infrastructure for inference | #24 | 52 | 808.4K | 5 | 1 | $60M |
| Outlines (dottxt) Structured text generation ensuring LLM outputs follow schemas | #25 | 50 | 1.7M | 1 | 0 | $3M |
| Roboflow Computer vision platform for dataset management and model deployment | #26 | 50 | 4.9M | 37 | 0 | $22M |
| H2O.ai Open-source machine learning platform for enterprise AI applications | #27 | 48 | 219.3K | 393 | 0 | $241M |
| RunPod GPU cloud platform for AI inference and training workloads | #28 | 48 | 1.0M | 18 | 0 | $20M |
| Portkey AI gateway for routing and observing calls across LLM providers | #29 | 48 | 1.2M | 3 | 0 | $3M |
| Lepton AI AI inference platform for deploying models with minimal code | #30 | 45 | 769.2K | 1 | 0 | $10M |
| DataRobot Enterprise AI platform for automated machine learning and deployment | #31 | 44 | 397.7K | 34 | 0 | $984M |
| Comet ML ML experiment management platform for tracking and comparing models | #32 | 44 | 808.9K | 378 | 0 | $57M |
| Tecton Feature platform for building real-time ML applications | #33 | 42 | 1.7M | 3 | 0 | $160M |
| MindsDB AI tables platform bringing ML models inside existing databases | #34 | 38 | 32.9K | 75 | 0 | $51M |
| Neptune AI Experiment tracking and model registry for ML teams | #35 | 38 | 157.1K | 39 | 0 | $10M |
| BentoML Open-source platform for building and deploying ML model services | #36 | 37 | 181.9K | 499 | 0 | $9M |
| Scale AI Data labeling and AI infrastructure platform | #37 | 35 | 144.7K | 5 | 0 | $15.9B |
| Cleanlab Data quality tools for finding and fixing errors in ML datasets | #38 | 34 | 61.8K | 19 | 0 | $30M |
| Snorkel AI Data-centric AI platform for programmatic data labeling and curation | #39 | 31 | 63.3K | 65 | 0 | $138M |
| Lamini Fine-tuning platform for LLMs. Train custom models on your data. | #40 | 27 | 46 | 0 | 0 | $25M |
| Helicone LLM observability platform. Monitor AI applications in production. | #41 | 26 | 19.6K | 2 | 0 | $500K |
| Humanloop LLM operations platform for prompt management and evaluation | #42 | 25 | 15.9K | 1 | 0 | $8M |
| Contextual AI Enterprise platform for building specialized RAG agents, founded by the creators of RAG. | #43 | 22 | 410 | 1 | 0 | Unavailable |
| Predibase Fine-tuning platform for deploying specialized language models | #44 | 20 | 6.9K | 1 | 0 | $28M |
| Gretel AI Synthetic data platform for privacy-safe AI model training | #45 | 15 | 8.4K | 2 | 0 | $66M |
| Dataiku Collaborative data science and ML platform for enterprise teams | #46 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 0 | $847M |
| AWS Bedrock Amazon's managed service for accessing foundation models via API | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | 80.4K | 1 | Unavailable |
| CoreWeave GPU cloud infrastructure provider specializing in AI and HPC workloads. | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | 1 | $2.6B |
| Hugging Face (Gradio) Open-source Python library for building ML demos | Unavailable | Unavailable | 14.4M | 11.9K | 0 | $394M |
| Lambda GPU cloud platform and on-premise infrastructure for training and serving ML models. | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | 5 | Unavailable |
| Robust Intelligence AI security platform for model validation and real-time threat protection. Acquired by Cisco 2024. | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | 0 | Unavailable |
| SambaNova AI chip and systems company building custom silicon for enterprise | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | 0 | $1.1B |
| Text Generation Inference Production-ready LLM serving. Optimized inference for Hugging Face models. | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | 1 | Unavailable |
| Wiz Cloud security platform using AI for threat detection and posture management. | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | 0 | Unavailable |
Rows link to company pages. Methodology explains downloads, public code usage, hiring, and funding.
Questions
Current company pages in AI Infrastructure include Hugging Face (#1 of 54 in AI Infrastructure), Qdrant (#2 of 54 in AI Infrastructure), and Weaviate (#3 of 54 in AI Infrastructure). Company pages include downloads, code usage, hiring, and funding data.
Across 54 company pages, current public data shows 680.7M package downloads per month, 42.3K known dependents, 165.9K public importing repos, and 26 recent hiring mentions. Data availability varies by company, so detail pages show what is present for each one.
AI Infrastructure AI companies disclose $46.4B in combined funding across 45 companies with known rounds.
The current data includes 1.6K Hacker News mentions across 39 companies in AI Infrastructure. Discussion is context, not the lead metric.
Notable data points: Hugging Face shows the most downloads, AWS Bedrock shows the most code usage, and Hugging Face shows the most hiring visibility. The full table shows whether the category is concentrated or broad.
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