GitHub Star Records Shrink from Years to About an Hour, a16z Data Shows

GitHub data pulled by a16z partner Sarah Tuo shows the time for projects to reach 20,000 stars has shrunk exponentially, from years before 2023 to about 13 days for AutoGPT and roughly a day for Grok-1, with the fastest star record now under an hour.

2026-08-18 ~ 2026-08-18 · 2 related posts

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