Aigc trend
Aigc is past its fastest climb: overall interest is up +299% in a year but down 12% in the last three months. Next Big's projection: likely to keep rising over the next 12 months.
- Data qualityHow well its sources carry the Pulse's line over the last 13 weeks. Medium data quality: sources from more than one company carry the line lately, not all of them steady. Every label
- Medium
- StageExploding: interest at least doubled over about two years and still sits at 70% or more of its peak. Every label
- Exploding
- VerdictThe Pulse's verdict on Hunger and Heat. Hunger is how many people search for it; Heat is how much people post and see about it. Steady: hunger level and Heat not up: searches holding level. Every label
- Steady
Cooling since September 27, 2026: its Pulse has been down 10% or more over three months every week since. It still passes our check, but it's off the lists of what's rising.
Four things to know
- Aigc is exploding on the Next Big Pulse, +299% in a year.
- Hunger + Heat: steady, searches holding level.
- Off its peak: at 80% of its two-year peak; searches at this point were higher a year later 73% of the time, against 73% for any search.
- Cooling since September 27, 2026: down 10% or more over three months, every week since.
What is aigc?
AIGC is an ambiguous abbreviation whose rising searches are mostly about AI-generated content, the term used widely in China and Asia for text, images, video and audio made by generative AI. People search it to learn what it means, to check work with AIGC detectors used by Chinese universities, to reduce a paper's AIGC score and to find AIGC apps. Smaller meanings are an AIGC portrait feature on Infinix phones and the Alderney gambling regulator's approved casinos. In practice the searchers are students, creators and marketers. Demand for detection, rewriting and creation tools around AI content is real and international.
Behind the rise
Rising around it: the related search foyege aigc (Breakout).
Where the line turned
- 1Turned up Oct 2024. Web mentions moved first.
- 2Turned up Oct 2025. Google web search moved first.
- 3Turned up Feb 2026. Google web search moved first.
Things that happened around the rise, never a claim of what caused it.
- Searches a month
- Thin data
- No Google Ads figure, so no searches a month (an estimate from another search engine's count failed its check); a Google Ads figure would make it firm.
- Rise so far
- Off its peak
- At 80% of its 2-year peak. Searches here were higher a year on 73% of the time (any search 73%)
- Overall interest, a year
- +299%
- Next Big Pulse
- Last 3 months
- -12%
- within its own noise, so flat
- Next 6 months
- +99%
- Next Big's projection, +33% to +249%
- Stage
- Exploding
- growing faster each month
- Trend score
- 45/100
- Worth building on, from eight parts: how it's made is below the numbers
- Peaks
- All year
- no seasonal peak
How the trend score is made
| Part | Reading | Weight | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Growth over a year | 67/100 | 25% | 16.7 |
| The last weeks | 43/100 | 15% | 6.5 |
| Fits a business (judged in review) | 70/100 | 15% | 10.5 |
| Interest now | 71/100 | 10% | 7.1 |
| Kept rising | 0/100 | 10% | 0.0 |
| What a click is worth | no reading, counted as average | 10% | 4.0 |
| Posts about it | no reading, counted as average | 10% | 3.0 |
| Searches a month | no reading, counted as average | 5% | 2.0 |
| Before adjustments | 100% | 49.8 | |
| Adjustment | ×0.9: a noisy line | ||
| Trend score | 45/100 | ||
How worth building on a search is, not how big it is. Every weight is on the methodology.
What's next for aigc
- Direction
- Cooling; level over the last 3 months (-12%, within its own noise).
- Next 6 months
- Next Big's projection: +99% in six months, likely between +33% and +249%.
- Next 12 months
- Next Big's projection: likely to keep rising (+28%).
- What it opens
- Offer writing support and originality-check explainers for students and researchers worried about AI-text detection, with clear guidance on citing and disclosing AI use.
The next wave inside it
Searches rising fastest alongside aigc. Breakout means more than five thousand percent.
- foyege aigcBreakout
- aigc visual creation+3,500%
- 知 网 aigc 检测+140%
- what is aigc+110%
Is aigc really trending?
Steady: searches holding level. Of the searches read this way over the last two years, 66% were searched more half a year later, against 63% of all searches (1,403 cases).
- Hungerwhat people go looking forlevel over 3 monthsFrom Google web search, YouTube search, web popularity
- Heatwhat the crowd is shown, unaskedlevel over 3 monthsFrom web mentions
Real when people are shown it and go looking for it; Early when the crowd is shown it first; Hype when it's shown and not sought; Quiet demand when searches rise with little talk. How the two sides are read.
How popular is aigc, and is it still growing?
Yes. Overall interest in aigc is up +299% in a year, and roughly level over the last 3 months (-12%). The line blends every source we read for it, each listed below with its own figures, and the Next Big Pulse confirms the rise.
- -12%in 3 months, within its own noise, so flatJul 2026 to this week
- +299%in 1 yearOct 2025 to this week
- +713%in 2 yearsOct 2024 to this week
Each figure compares overall interest at the end of the window with its start.
Who searches for it, and why
Most people search it to learn about it.
Where it's searched most
Interest in aigc by US state, against the busiest state.
- California100
- Washington71
- Oregon38
- Utah33
- Kansas33
- Vermont33
- Nevada33
- District of Columbia33
- Virginia28
- Massachusetts28
What people ask about aigc
Questions
- how to remove aigc watermark
- how to remove aigc watermark vivo
Best
- best aigc
- best aigc app
Compared
- aigc vs generative ai
- aigc vs ugc
- aigc vs llm
What's built around it
The apps, code and videos aigc already has: where the market is, and where it isn't yet.
Sources
The chart is the Next Big Pulse: every source with a weekly or monthly reading for aigc, blended into one line of overall interest. A trend counts only when independent sources confirm the rise, each read against what every other search we track did there.
- Google web search49%since Oct 2021
- Web popularity20%since Oct 2021
- Web mentions17%since Oct 2022
- YouTube search14%since Apr 2023
Data quality: medium, sources from more than one company carry the line lately, not all of them steady. The last 2 weeks rest on fewer sources: they aren't in web mentions yet. How the grade works
| Source | Rose with it | This search, in a year | The typical search there |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bing searches | Rose | More than for the typical search there. Named, not quoted: its licence. | |
| Wikipedia views | No rise above typical | ||
| Bluesky posts | No rise above typical | ||
| Hacker News mentions | No rise above typical | ||
| Research papers | Rose | +103%848 → 1,724 papers a year | +23%the typical search there |
| New York Times articles | No rise above typical | ||
The same search on Google Trends · How we read every source
Projections are Next Big's forecasts from public search data. They aren't financial, investment, trading or medical advice.
Questions
Is aigc still popular in 2026?
Yes. Overall interest in aigc is up +299% on a year ago, and roughly level over the last three months (-12%).
When do searches for aigc peak?
It doesn't follow a season. Its busiest week in five years was in June 2026.
Will aigc keep growing?
Next Big's projection says it's likely to keep rising over the next 12 months (+28%): +99% in six months, likely between +33% and +249%. It's a forecast from public search data, not advice.
What's rising alongside aigc?
The searches rising fastest with it are foyege aigc, aigc visual creation and 知 网 aigc 检测: often the next wave inside a trend.
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