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DeepSeek (AI)

AI Tools · first detected 8 Aug 2026 · scored 6 Oct 2026

Trend score

39/100

Opportunity

9/100

Confidence

63%

Trend, 30 days

Why this score

  • +Wikipedia views up 226× against its 4-week median
  • −Flat week over week
  • −Already covered heavily (saturation 45%)
  • ·Not scored on arXiv (source unavailable); weights rebalanced
How this score was calculated
ComponentValueWeightPoints
Attention growth100%0.40+40.0
Coverage growth0%0.00+0.0
Cross-source breadth33%0.27+8.9
Acceleration5%0.20+1.0
Freshness0%0.13+0.0
Saturation (subtracted)45%0.25−11.3
Trend score (0–100)38.6

Opportunity = trend 38.6 × (1 − saturation 45%) × stage weight 0.4 × niche relevance 1 = 8.5

Saturation parts: volume 56%, time elevated 57%, mainstream 0%. Spike ratio = mean of the last 3 days ÷ median of days 4–31. A source counts as spiking at ≥ 1.5× and robust z ≥ 2.

SourceSpikeRobust zWeek over weekSpiking
wikipedia226.33×152.04%yes

Full method: methodology. Rising means rising now; it is not a prediction that a topic will go viral.

Signals by source

Wikipedia views

235/day

2026-09-07 → 2026-10-06 · fetched 7 Oct, 12:50 UTC

New arXiv papers

4/day

2026-09-07 → 2026-10-06 · fetched 7 Oct, 11:45 UTC · not used in today's score

Attention data: Wikipedia pageviews via the Wikimedia Analytics API · Research data: arXiv (thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability) · Data as of 7 Oct, 12:50 UTC

Licences and terms
  • Attention data: Wikipedia pageviews via the Wikimedia Analytics API: CC0 (pageview data)
  • Research data: arXiv (thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability): Metadata CC0

Why it's rising

Observed (measured data)

  • Wikipedia: 226.3× its 4-week median (about 226.3 a day recently, against 1 before).

Interpretation (our reading, not a fact)

Interpretation: recent headlines (few so far) suggest renewed interest, but the data shows attention, not the reason behind it.

Written by AI from the stored evidence on this page (mock:claude-sonnet-5-5), 7 Oct 2026.

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