Hype Radar — Above the Fog: what is happening in AI

Hype Radar

What’s trending in AI —

On Oct 29, 2026, Above the Fog’s AI hype radar scored 107 topics across 34 sources. 10 topics are in hype now (rising or hot), 5 cooling and 92 quiet.

Data note: 7 of the last 14 days were not collected live. No collection ran on Oct 22–Oct 28, or a later run refilled those days at once. Every hype score is measured against the 14 days before it and those days are thin, so the scores, the stages and the week-over-week theme trends may read higher than they are until they leave that window on Nov 12.

Storylines today

Topics in hype today that the radar’s curated relations link (made by, part of, related to), read together. Each storyline starts with the topic the others are made by or part of, or with the higher-scored of two related topics; the story in the news behind each is under In hype now:

In hype now

  1. Mistral AI — 🚀 Rising · hype score 48.4 · +23.3 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 29
  2. Qwen — 🚀 Rising · hype score 42.2 · +33.6 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 29
  3. Claude Code — 🚀 Rising · hype score 36.4 · +29 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 29
  4. Local inference — 🚀 Rising · hype score 32 · +10.9 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 29
  5. Google Cloud — 🚀 Rising · hype score 28.4 · −10.7 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 29
  6. OpenCode — 🚀 Rising · hype score 28.1 · −8.5 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 28
  7. ChatGPT — 🚀 Rising · hype score 27.9 · +20.8 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 29
  8. Nvidia — 🚀 Rising · hype score 26.3 · +11.3 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 29
  9. Model Context Protocol — 🚀 Rising · hype score 25.7 · +13.3 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 29
  10. Cursor — 🚀 Rising · hype score 25.2 · +20.2 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 29

Cooling

  1. Anthropic — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 31.2 · +22.3 in 7 days
  2. LMArena — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 22.7 · +22.7 in 7 days
  3. Gemini — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 21.5 · +14.9 in 7 days
  4. AI IPOs — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 12.6 · +1 in 7 days
  5. AI bubble - capex — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 11.1 · +10 in 7 days

Biggest moves this week

  1. Qwen — +33.6 in 7 days, now 42.2 (🚀 Rising)
  2. Claude Code — +29 in 7 days, now 36.4 (🚀 Rising)
  3. Gemma — +24.3 in 7 days, now 24.3 (💤 Quiet)
  4. Open-weight models — +23.5 in 7 days, now 23.6 (💤 Quiet)
  5. Mistral AI — +23.3 in 7 days, now 48.4 (🚀 Rising)

Themes today

Data note: 7 of the last 7 days are only partly classified. Share of each day's items classified: Oct 23 14% · Oct 24 31% · Oct 25 31% · Oct 26 23% · Oct 27 24% · Oct 28 51% · Oct 29 74%. Theme counts for those days are low, so the week-over-week trends lean toward “fading”.

Stories kept by the radar on Oct 29, 2026, by theme (a story can carry several themes):

  • Models — 345 stories (32% of the day) · 345 in 7 days · fading week over week
  • Agents — 343 stories (32% of the day) · 343 in 7 days · fading week over week
  • Protocols & infra — 339 stories (32% of the day) · 339 in 7 days · fading week over week
  • Usage & adoption — 230 stories (22% of the day) · 230 in 7 days · fading week over week
  • Business & policy — 202 stories (19% of the day) · 202 in 7 days · fading week over week
  • SF scene — 2 stories (0.2% of the day) · 2 in 7 days · fading week over week

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