An OpenAI flagship lost 38% of its daily usage in three days — then set three straight all-time highs
Everyone publishes AI model leaderboards. Almost nobody publishes the day-level curve — and the curve is where the actual story is. At whatstrending.ai we snapshot every model's daily request count from OpenRouter's usage feed into a database, once a day, INSERT OR IGNORE — a row can never be revised after the fact. We're 78 days in. Here is what openai/gpt-5.6-luna did over the last two weeks:…
OpenAI's flagship model GPT-5.6-Luna experienced a significant drop in daily usage, losing 38% in just three days. The model then went on to set three consecutive all-time high usage records within the same week. This volatility, as shown by the day-level curve of usage data, is far more pronounced than what is typically reflected in monthly aggregate rankings.
The data was collected through a daily snapshot of OpenRouter's usage feed for OpenAI's models, stored in an append-only database, ensuring accuracy and preventing revisions.
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