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Laya trend

Updated · Compare · Confirmed by Next Big PulseEvery source we read for this search, weighted and blended into one weekly line of overall interest, 0 to 100 of its own peak. What it's made of

Laya is still accelerating: overall interest is up +64% in a year and +111% in the last three months. Next Big's projection: likely to ease off over the next 12 months.

ConfidenceHow sure the Pulse is over its last 13 weeks. Medium confidence: sources from more than one company carry the line lately, not all of them steady. Every label
Medium
StageRegular: neither exploding nor peaked: rising slower, holding, or not yet doubled. Every label
Regular
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. Real: hunger and Heat both up over the last three months: people are shown it and go looking for it. In our replay, searches with both rising were still higher a year later 94% of the time, against 75% for any search. Every label
Both rising
Next Big Pulse.
laya: weekly interest over three years, +64% in a year.

Three things to know

  1. Laya is tracked on the Next Big Pulse, +64% in a year, about 11K searches a month in the US.
  2. Hunger + Heat: real, people are shown it and go looking for it.
  3. Near its peak: at 100% of its two-year peak; searches at this point were higher a year later 76% of the time, against 73% for any search.

What is laya?

Laya refers here to an open-source GitHub project, NandhaKishorM/laya, describing itself as a non-autoregressive "System 1" decision engine: it returns typed choices, scores and yes/no decisions over text in a single forward pass, in over 100 languages, with a router picking a checkpoint per request. It gathered more than 23,000 stars within a week, and its topics link it to the Jev typed-decision model. In practice developers use it for fast classification and routing without text generation. The word "laya" also has unrelated meanings, so search volume should be read with care. Typed decision models are an emerging developer tooling area.

Behind the rise

Rising around it: the related search laya jev (Breakout).

Where the line turned

  1. 1Turned down Sep 2024. Web mentions moved first, 1 week before the next source.
  2. 2Turned down Jan 2025. YouTube search moved first, 2 weeks before the next source.

Things that happened around the rise, never a claim of what caused it.

Latest news about laya

The newest coverage we read for it, -13% on a month ago.

Searches a month
11K
The Pulse now, US, between 9K and 13K
Rise so far
Near its peak
At 100% of its 2-year peak, climbing 6 weeks. Searches here were higher a year on 76% of the time (any search 73%)
Shelf life
9 to 63 weeks
How long past rises like this one lasted: median 23 weeks, from 3,914 rises. History, not a forecast
Overall interest, a year
+64%
from 8K to 11K searches a month (rough)
Last 3 months
+111%
accelerating, +5.7K a month (rough)
Next 12 months
Easing off
Next Big's projection, -16%
Stage
Regular
holding level
Trend score
70/100
Worth building on, from eight parts: how it's made is below the numbers
Peaks
All year
no seasonal peak
A click is worth
$6.38
what advertisers pay
Ranking difficulty
45/100
takes a good page

Searches a month added are rough: right direction about 3 times in 4, size within ×2 (check 14a). What that means.

How the trend score is made
The trend score, part by part
PartReadingWeightPoints
Growth over a year49/10025%12.3
The last weeks98/10015%14.7
Fits a business (judged in review)70/10015%10.5
Interest now100/10010%10.0
Kept rising0/10010%0.0
What a click is worth100/10010%10.0
Posts about it91/10010%9.1
Searches a month75/1005%3.7
Before adjustments100%70.2
Trend score70/100

How worth building on a search is, not how big it is. Every weight is on the methodology.

What's next for laya

Direction
Accelerating, +111% over the last 3 months.
Next 12 months
Next Big's projection: likely to ease off (-16%).

The next wave inside it

Searches rising fastest alongside laya. Breakout means more than five thousand percent.

  1. laya jevBreakout
  2. why did i get marriedBreakout
  3. laya evansBreakout
  4. why did i get married againBreakout
  5. why did i get married again castBreakout
  6. everett osborneBreakout
  7. armani greerBreakout
  8. iman laya pahlaviBreakout

Is laya really trending?

Real: people are shown it and go looking for it. Of the searches read this way over the last two years, 50% were searched more half a year later, against 61% of all searches (201 cases).

  1. Hungerwhat people go looking for+127% in 3 monthsFrom Google web search, YouTube search, Bing searches, Wikipedia views
  2. Heatwhat the crowd is shown, unasked+64% in 3 monthsFrom news coverage (GDELT), web mentions, Bluesky posts a week

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.

Is laya still growing?

Yes. Overall interest in laya is up +64% in a year, and still up +111% over the last 3 months. The line blends every source we read for it, each listed below with its own figures, and the Next Big Pulse confirms the rise.

  1. +111%in 3 monthsJun 2026 to this week
  2. +64%in 1 yearSep 2025 to this week
  3. +77%in 2 yearsSep 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 laya by US state, against the busiest state.

  1. California100
  2. District of Columbia73
  3. Missouri73
  4. Kansas70
  5. Mississippi64
  6. Louisiana64
  7. Georgia61
  8. Maryland61
  9. Nevada61
  10. New Jersey58

What people ask about laya

Best

  • best laya healthcare plan for seniors
  • best laya healthcare plan

Compared

  • laya vs philippine veterans bank
  • laya vs jev
  • laya vs lapa
  • laya vs psyco m
  • laya vs
  • laya vs za3ze3

Near me

  • laya near me
  • laya burger near me
  • laya clinic near me
  • laya healthcare near me
  • laya diagnostics near me
  • laya restaurant near me

Alternatives

  • laya simplicity alternative
  • laya simplicity alternative reviews
  • laya inspire alternative
  • laya simply connect alternative
  • laya inspire plus alternative

Apps and tools

  • laya app
  • laya app download
  • laya app login

For whom

  • laya for pooja
  • laya for fishing
  • laya for prasad

Also searched

  • laya forms
  • laya fortuner ji
  • laya and linc
  • laya and srikanth movie
  • laya and jagapathi babu new movie
  • laya and jagapathi babu movie

What's built around it

The apps, code and videos laya already has: where the market is, and where it isn't yet.

Apps, 18 in the store

  1. Cooking Madness-Kitchen FrenzyZenLife Games Pte. Ltd. · 4.8★ from 794K ratings · since 2017
  2. Azar: Chat, Meet FriendsHyperconnect LLC · 4.3★ from 102K ratings · since 2015
  3. Gaze: Live Video Chat AppVlmedia Yazilim Tanitim Bilisim Danismanlik Ic Ve Dis Ticaret Anonim Sirketi · 4.4★ from 21K ratings · since 2020
  4. Hippo - Meet New FriendsAzom LLC · 4.2★ from 11K ratings · since 2018
  5. Fachat: Chat & Community静雯 关 · 4.4★ from 2K ratings · since 2019

Open-source code, 10K repos

  1. NandhaKishorM/laya32K stars
  2. mizorewww/laya-mlx7K stars
  3. layabox/LayaAir2K stars
  4. layabox/LayaAir-v12K stars
  5. mizorewww/laya-coreml2K stars

Reference

  1. Laya378 reads in 30 days

Brands and companies behind it

Who laya names, makes it or builds it, from Wikidata, SEC EDGAR and GitHub. Each name says where it comes from.

Sources

The chart is the Next Big Pulse: every source with a weekly or monthly reading for laya, 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.

What the line for laya is made of, by its share of the last year
  • Bing searches31%since Sep 2024
  • YouTube search21%since Oct 2021
  • Google web search19%since Sep 2021
  • Wikipedia views15%since Oct 2023
  • Web mentions11%since Oct 2022
  • News coverage (GDELT)3%since Oct 2024

Confidence: medium, sources from more than one company carry the line lately, not all of them steady. How the grade works

Independent sources, and whether each rose with laya
SourceRose with itThis search, in a yearThe typical search there
Bing searchesNo rise above typical
Wikipedia viewsRose+63%24 → 38 views a week-17%the typical search there
Bluesky postsNo rise above typical
Hacker News mentionsNo rise above typical
Research papersNo rise above typical
New York Times articlesNo rise above typical
Wikipedia views of “Laya”, weekly, two years (378 in the last 30 days)
Research papers a year (OpenAlex), 357 in all
  1. 192019: 37
  2. 202020: 55
  3. 212021: 40
  4. 222022: 23
  5. 232023: 36
  6. 242024: 53
  7. 252025: 41
  8. 262026: 72

Seen in Hugging Face's trending models and spaces (2026-10-22).

Searches a month is the Pulse's reading now, in Google Ads' scale for the US; cost per click and ranking difficulty are Google Ads keyword estimates.

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.

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Cite as: Next Big Pulse for "laya", weekly overall interest, 0 to 100 of its own peak. Next Big, nextbig.io/trend/laya, as of October 22, 2026.

Questions

Is laya still popular in 2026?

Yes. Overall interest in laya is up +64% on a year ago, and +111% over the last three months.

How many people search for laya?

About 11,000 searches a month in the US, on the Next Big Pulse. It's searched most, for its size, in California.

When do searches for laya peak?

It doesn't follow a season. Its busiest week in five years was in September 2026.

Will laya keep growing?

Next Big's projection says it's likely to ease off over the next 12 months (-16%). It's a forecast from public search data, not advice.

What's rising alongside laya?

The searches rising fastest with it are laya jev, why did i get married and laya evans: often the next wave inside a trend.

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Data as of October 22, 2026. First seen September 24, 2026.