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Alina Fomine

Author at thehype, covering AI and the builders behind it. Alina works across media, partnerships, and ecosystem growth at /function1 – the ai conference connecting startups, founders, and global tech leaders.

ARTICLES BY Alina Fomine

Comic scene: hooded builders board a battered yellow cab tagged $0.04/M as a racer guards a black GPT Luna sports car.

OpenRouter top 5 by token volume. Every model gaining share on OpenRouter this week is either Chinese or free

Alina Fomine 25 Sep 2026 1 min read

Illustrated raven stealing star coins from vault safes labeled Cloudflare, Alibaba, and Tencent in a graffiti-covered room.

Top 5 GitHub repos by weekly star growth. Cloudflare, Alibaba and Tencent repos lead the list

Alina Fomine 24 Sep 2026 1 min read

Man holds glowing bonsai beside a giant tree carved Qwen shedding 27B digits – Ternary Bonsai compressing Qwen 3.8

Trending models on Hugging Face: Qwen 3.8 lost 622K downloads this week, its 9x-compressed fork gained 480K

Alina Fomine 22 Sep 2026 1 min read

Humanoid robot at a school desk crushing an egg, chalkboard reads NEXT? – embodied AI learning the physical world

50,000 humanoid robots by end of 2027 – a data play to build the largest embodied AI training set and teach a model how the physical world works

Alina Fomine 21 Sep 2026 1 min read

Man in a pinstripe suit waters neon vines growing a drone and AI chip in a server corridor, symbolizing AI funding rounds

Top AI investment rounds this week. Goldman Sachs backed an Italian cybersecurity startup, Samsung co-led a Dutch chip company – none of these are typical AI investors

Alina Fomine 19 Sep 2026 2 min read

Robotic claw crushing a gold coin splitting between the OpenAI and Anthropic logos above a purple construction site.

OpenAI and Anthropic are racing to a trillion-dollar IPO. One can't control its models, the other can't stop pretending it can – and the money both need to get there got more expensive

Alina Fomine 18 Sep 2026 1 min read

Man in an OpenAI-patched leather jacket holds a gold #1 trophy over a podium labeled V4, HY4, GLM and V4.1

OpenRouter top 5 by token volume this week: OpenAI is back at #1

Alina Fomine 18 Sep 2026 1 min read

Comic-style vendor with an NVIDIA badge shows a glowing gold watch beside cheap watches tagged $0.14

Nvidia says the best way to make tokens cheaper is increasing performance per watt. The market says: just use a cheaper model

Alina Fomine 17 Sep 2026 1 min read

Satellite trophy on the #1 podium among five glowing cups as SKILLS and ARCHIFY exit — top github repos of the week.

Top 5 GitHub repos by weekly star growth. gods-eye-view pulled +14.8K stars in a week – a spy satellite simulator beat every AI agent repo

Alina Fomine 17 Sep 2026 1 min read

Industrial machines labeled CHAT, DOCS and SLIDES linked by glowing pipes as Anthropic merges Claude into one product

Anthropic unified chat, Cowork, design, docs, and slides into one Claude to compete with Google Workspace. One catch: devs already have composable workflows in Claude Code, knowledge workers still don't – and that might be the harder problem to crack

Alina Fomine 16 Sep 2026 1 min read

Woman in a dark bodysuit holding a glowing Flex 2 robotic hand in a warehouse aisle stacked with rows of robot hands

Musk says the hand is 60% of the engineering difficulty of an entire humanoid. In China that part already ships by the thousand, and Xynova is building the precise end of it

Alina Fomine 16 Sep 2026 1 min read

Man at a retro CRT running Claude Code, orange cable linking his desk to a GPT server rack in a graffiti basement.

Anthropic's Claude Code runs on someone else's model spend – and the data proved it

Alina Fomine 15 Sep 2026 1 min read

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