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What’s trending in AI —

On Oct 16, 2026, Above the Fog’s AI hype radar scored 102 topics across 34 sources. 25 topics are in hype now (rising or hot), 15 cooling and 62 quiet.

Data note: 10 of the last 14 days were not collected live. No collection ran on Oct 3–Oct 12, 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 Oct 27.

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. Muse Spark — 🚀 Rising · hype score 81 · +81 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 12
  2. Vibe coding — 🚀 Rising · hype score 64.4 · +44.3 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 12
  3. Gemini Argon — 🚀 Rising · hype score 62.9 · +61.5 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
  4. Nvidia — 🚀 Rising · hype score 60.3 · +47.8 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 14
  5. Claude Code — 🚀 Rising · hype score 58.2 · +41.8 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
  6. Local inference — 🚀 Rising · hype score 56.7 · +50.4 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 14
  7. Claude — 🔥 Hot · hype score 55.4 · +23.1 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
  8. Open-weight models — 🚀 Rising · hype score 54.1 · +48.7 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 15
  9. Elon Musk — 🚀 Rising · hype score 51.9 · +33 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 12
  10. Gemini — 🔥 Hot · hype score 48 · +42.5 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
  11. AI agents — 🚀 Rising · hype score 44.9 · +28.9 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 14
  12. RTX Spark — 🚀 Rising · hype score 43.1 · +12.7 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 15
  13. Cursor — 🔥 Hot · hype score 42.6 · +15.2 in 7 days · in hype since Sep 20
  14. NVIDIA Nemotron — 🚀 Rising · hype score 42 · +40.8 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 15
  15. Waymo - robotaxis — 🚀 Rising · hype score 40.4 · +29 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 16
  16. Gemma — 🚀 Rising · hype score 37.4 · +3.6 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 6
  17. DeepSeek — 🔥 Hot · hype score 33.4 · +5 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 12
  18. Model Context Protocol — 🔥 Hot · hype score 33.2 · +20.4 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
  19. ChatGPT — 🔥 Hot · hype score 32 · +16.1 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
  20. AGI - superintelligence — 🚀 Rising · hype score 29.6 · +6.3 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 16
  21. OpenAI — 🚀 Rising · hype score 29.5 · +18 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 14
  22. Meta Superintelligence Labs — 🔥 Hot · hype score 28.8 · +26.4 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
  23. Physical AI - humanoids — 🚀 Rising · hype score 28.4 · +28.2 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 15
  24. Qwen — 🔥 Hot · hype score 26.2 · +14.7 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 16
  25. Hermes Agent — 🔥 Hot · hype score 25.7 · +11.5 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 11

Cooling

  1. Anthropic — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 37.5 · +16.2 in 7 days
  2. OpenCode — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 29.5 · +18.3 in 7 days
  3. Antigravity — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 27.4 · +14.8 in 7 days
  4. Google DeepMind — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 26.1 · −2.2 in 7 days
  5. Jev — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 24 · −40.8 in 7 days
  6. OpenRouter — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 19.8 · −20.2 in 7 days
  7. OpenAI Codex — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 19.4 · +4.2 in 7 days
  8. Siri AI — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 15.9 · +3 in 7 days
  9. Strands Agents — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 15.9 · +13.6 in 7 days
  10. Grok Bot — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 15.3 · −17.4 in 7 days

Biggest moves this week

  1. Muse Spark — +81 in 7 days, now 81 (🚀 Rising)
  2. Gemini Argon — +61.5 in 7 days, now 62.9 (🚀 Rising)
  3. Local inference — +50.4 in 7 days, now 56.7 (🚀 Rising)
  4. Open-weight models — +48.7 in 7 days, now 54.1 (🚀 Rising)
  5. Nvidia — +47.8 in 7 days, now 60.3 (🚀 Rising)

Themes today

Data note: Oct 14 is only 83% classified. Share of each day's items classified: Oct 14 83%. Theme counts for those days are low, so the week-over-week trends lean toward “fading”.

Stories kept by the radar on Oct 16, 2026, by theme (a story can carry several themes):

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