⏰ OpenRouter Limited-Time Free Models

Two limited-time free models remain available on OpenRouter, both expiring June 29:

  • Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) — $30/M tokens input, $150/M tokens output. 1M context window. 1 day left.
  • StepFun: Step 3.5 Flash — $0.09/M tokens input, $0.30/M tokens output. 262K context. 1 day left.

New on OpenRouter

  • Sakana: Fugu Ultra — A new reasoning/vision model from Sakana AI with a 1M token context window and $5/M tokens pricing. Fugu Ultra is the flagship model in Sakana’s “one model to command them all” orchestrator architecture. The open-source reimplementation trotsky1997/OpenFugu continues to gain traction on GitHub.

🤗 Trending on Hugging Face

New models trending on Hugging Face:

Model Description
lodestones/debug-flow MIT-licensed debug flow model with 6 likes
Miiche/visualrl-lora-m3-only Visual RL LoRA adapter (safetensors)
VibeCuisine/jetson1-062626-grab-and-place-salome-act LeRobot ACT robotics policy for grab-and-place tasks
joseph-ai/Aris-209M 209M parameter Llama-based model (safetensors)
JamesResearch1216/v1-Architecture-phase05v1 Architecture phase V1 model
workspaceL/lii Lightweight model variant with 2 likes
Aqarion13/QUANTARION-EDU-AI Apache-2.0 licensed educational AI model
danielharkin21/dansAI General-purpose AI model
juergengunz/fluxer Flux workflow model with 8 likes
websfactory/Webs-Sejong-31B-v3 Large 31B model — latest version of Webs-Sejong series

⭐ GitHub Trending: AI Edition

  1. benchflow-ai/awesome-evals — A curated library of resources for building and evaluating AI agents. ⭐ 474
  2. winsznx/theeleven — Eleven autonomous AI agents opening live football prop markets on X Layer (Uniswap v4 hook). ⭐ 471
  3. trotsky1997/OpenFugu — Open reimplementation of Sakana Fugu — the “one model to command them all” LLM orchestrator. ⭐ 251
  4. Pluviobyte/video-production-skills — Reusable AI video production skills library for creation, recreation, motion design, and QA. ⭐ 232
  5. iart-ai/motion-skills — 50 open-source skills for teaching AI coding agents motion graphics, animation & video. ⭐ 213

💡 Key Trends

  1. AI Infrastructure Deals Hit New Highs — Airwallex raised $320M at an $11B valuation in Series H funding, specifically targeting financial infrastructure for a world where AI agents handle business payments. Amazon committed a fresh $13B to AI infrastructure in India. ON Semiconductor’s $7B all-stock deal for Synaptics signals a broader consolidation push around physical AI and edge computing hardware.

  2. OpenAI Delays GPT-5.6, Shuffles Leadership — OpenAI delayed its next major model, GPT-5.6, following a security request from the Trump administration. Separately, the company poached Uber India’s top executive to lead operations in what it calls its largest and fastest-growing non-US market. The moves signal growing political scrutiny on frontier model releases and renewed international expansion focus.

  3. Qualcomm Dragonfly AI Chips Head to Microsoft & Meta — Qualcomm’s Dragonfly AI accelerator chips are set to power datacenters at Microsoft and Meta, marking a significant expansion of Qualcomm’s AI infrastructure play beyond mobile and edge devices. This further diversifies the AI chip supply chain away from NVIDIA dominance.

  4. Google Expands AI Platform Play — Google launched its Interactions API as the primary interface for Gemini models and agents, giving developers a unified way to build agentic applications. Meanwhile, Google Search now stores user media uploads to train AI models — a privacy move drawing scrutiny. ElevenLabs adopted Google SynthID to watermark AI-generated audio, marking the first major voice-cloning platform to integrate the technology.

  5. Free Frontier Access Window Nears Close — Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) and Step 3.5 Flash both expire as limited-free models on OpenRouter tomorrow (June 29). Combined, these have given developers free access to ~$30/M tokens worth of frontier inference for two weeks.

Today’s Snapshot

  • New HF Models: 10
  • New OpenRouter Models: 1 (Sakana Fugu Ultra)
  • Trending GitHub Repos: 5
  • Limited-Time Free Models: 2 (both expire June 29 — 1 day left)
  • Total Items Tracked: 18
  • Notable Funding: Airwallex $320M (AI agent finance), Amazon $13B (India AI infra), ON Semi $7B (Synaptics acquisition), Patronus AI $50M (AI agent stress-testing)
  • Policy: OpenAI delays GPT-5.6 at Trump admin security request