How DeepGrove launched Maple-Preview on X
283K views, ranked 1325 of the 1981 launches we track. It was saved at well above the usual rate, which is the signal that matters more than reach for anything with a considered purchase behind it.
We introduce Maple-Preview, an open-source 20B-A1B ternary-weight reasoning LLM, SOTA in its weight class. It solves IMO-level problems and runs at 200+ tokens/s on a Mac Mini M4, 5–16× faster than efficient models like Gemma 4, Qwen3.5, and gpt-oss.
How it compares
A launch means nothing against no one. These are the launches it is actually comparable to, and where this one sits among them.
| Compared with | Launches | Median views | This one | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product news the same kind of announcement | 769 | 805K | 0.4x | 535 |
| under 5K followers accounts of a similar size | 627 | 227K | 1.2x | 283 |
| Every launch all of them, for scale | 1981 | 688K | 0.4x | 1325 |
What this launch shows
DeepGrove posted this from an account with 2K followers and reached 149.4 times that many people. Accounts of that size usually reach 161.4 times their following, so this is in the normal range.
It ranks 283 of 627 launches from accounts that size. Against every launch in the directory it is below the median of 688K views, at rank 1325 of 1981.
Saves led. 2K people bookmarked it, 55.1 per 10,000 views against a directory median of 11.7.
A bookmark is a plan to come back, and it tracks signups and demo requests more closely than a like does. The rest: 128 replies, 71 quotes, 237 reposts.
The post opens with “We introduce Maple-Preview, an open-source 20B-A1B ternary-weight reasoning LLM, SOTA in its weight class”. It carries an image and no video. 92% of launches in the directory carry a video, so this is the rarer choice, and the few image launches that travelled did it on the strength of the image.
The copy runs 41 words, about the usual length for a launch post here, where the median is 41. The body carries a link, so the post had somewhere to send the reader and paid a little reach for it.
It went out on a Tuesday. Launches posted on a Tuesday have a median of 651K views in the directory, and Friday is the strongest day at 880K.
Launching a product on X from a small account covers this: an account with 2K followers has to earn every view from outside its own following. For the next one, read attributing signups to a launch: a save rate this high is the number to follow into the product.
Giving people something to reply to is the guide for it: the conversation is what carried this one. Every launch we track in Frontier Lab is on that vertical's directory page.
Questions about this launch
When did DeepGrove launch Maple-Preview?
DeepGrove posted the launch on X on 4 August 2026.
How many views did the Maple-Preview launch post get?
282,602 views at the last read, ranked 1325 of the 1981 AI launches Doomers tracks, 149 times the account's following.
Who posted the Maple-Preview launch?
@deepgrove_ai, which has 2K followers.
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