Jag’s AI Heat Map

Jag’s AI Heat Map is a visual dashboard that answers a narrow question: what is getting attention in AI right now? Rather than publishing articles or rankings, it aggregates mentions across English-language news and developer communities and plots the resulting entities on a single interactive canvas. The default view covers the last seven days, with a toggle for today only.

The core interaction is exploration. Scroll to zoom, drag to pan, and click any node to see details. Topics and entities are distinguished by shape, and darker shading indicates more heat. Position matters too: bigger, more central and more connected nodes are the ones being talked about most. Small markers flag items that are new this week, rising or cooling versus 24 hours earlier, while orange names signal a surge in the last six hours.

Heat is not a raw mention count. Each story contributes weight to every entity it mentions, adjusted by source and popularity signals including Hacker News points, Hugging Face upvotes and GitHub stars, and heat decays on a 24-hour half-life. A separate Articles view opens a scrollable 30-day archive grouped by source, newest first, with a red counter showing articles discovered in the past hour.

It is most useful for analysts, developers and journalists who need a fast situational read before a meeting or story, and for anyone curious which models, hardware or people are dominating discussion. Treat it as a directional signal rather than a definitive ranking, and cr