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What’s trending in AI —

On Oct 21, 2026, Above the Fog’s AI hype radar scored 106 topics across 34 sources. 9 topics are in hype now (rising or hot), 9 cooling and 88 quiet.

Data note: 5 of the last 14 days were not collected live. No collection ran on Oct 8–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.

In hype now

  1. Claude — 🚀 Rising · hype score 65 · −1.8 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 19
  2. DeepSeek — 🔥 Hot · hype score 64.9 · +45.2 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 12
  3. Elon Musk — 🔥 Hot · hype score 59.5 · +28.1 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 12
  4. Local inference — 🚀 Rising · hype score 42.6 · −3.3 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 21
  5. AI agents — 🚀 Rising · hype score 42.4 · +6.5 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 19
  6. Google Cloud — 🔥 Hot · hype score 39.8 · +9.2 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 19
  7. MiniMax — 🔥 Hot · hype score 39.6 · +37.5 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 19
  8. Data centers - compute — 🚀 Rising · hype score 35.5 · +12.5 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 21
  9. Mistral AI — 🚀 Rising · hype score 25.8 · +7.6 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 19

Cooling

  1. OpenCode — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 25 · −0.7 in 7 days
  2. Model Context Protocol — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 18 · −13.9 in 7 days
  3. Nvidia — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 15.7 · −16 in 7 days
  4. Claude Code — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 14.6 · −39.2 in 7 days
  5. AGI - superintelligence — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 14 · −4.5 in 7 days
  6. Waymo - robotaxis — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 13.9 · −10.6 in 7 days
  7. Vibe coding — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 12.7 · −43.8 in 7 days
  8. Muse Spark — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 11.8 · −1.2 in 7 days
  9. DeepSeek Harness — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 10.3 · −3.6 in 7 days

Biggest moves this week

  1. Gemini — −71 in 7 days, now 6.7 (💤 Quiet)
  2. Gemini Argon — −49.1 in 7 days, now 9.4 (💤 Quiet)
  3. DeepSeek — +45.2 in 7 days, now 64.9 (🔥 Hot)
  4. Anthropic — −44.6 in 7 days, now 7.8 (💤 Quiet)
  5. Vibe coding — −43.8 in 7 days, now 12.7 (🧊 Cooling)

Themes today

Data note: Oct 20 is only 83% classified. Share of each day's items classified: Oct 20 83%. Theme counts for those days are low, so the week-over-week trends lean toward “fading”.

Stories kept by the radar on Oct 21, 2026, by theme (a story can carry several themes):

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