Above the Fog

ChatGPT vs Grok

ChatGPT and Grok side by side on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar, on Oct 29, 2026: ChatGPT is 🚀 Rising with a hype score of 28 and Grok is 💤 Quiet with 10. The radar’s curated relations list them as competitors.

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.

At a glance

MeasureChatGPTGrok
Stage🚀 Rising💤 Quiet
Hype score27.99.8
7-day change+20.8+5.5
In hype sinceOct 29, 2026not in hype now
Peak, 30 days37.6 on Oct 15, 202643.8 on Oct 13, 2026
Stories in 7 days579183
Share of voice, 7 days10%1.2%
Sources above normal2 of 191 of 20
Category🤖 Agents🧠 Models

Hype score, last 30 days

Both hype scores by day, newest first; on the page’s chart, ChatGPT is the solid line and Grok the dashed one.

DayChatGPTGrok
Oct 29, 202627.99.8
Oct 28, 202616.21.9
Oct 27, 202616.14.2
Oct 26, 20262.91.7
Oct 25, 202600
Oct 24, 202600
Oct 23, 20266.33.4
Oct 22, 20267.14.3
Oct 21, 202611.319.9
Oct 20, 202610.717.5
Oct 19, 202617.915.6
Oct 18, 20260.92.5
Oct 17, 20262.93.3
Oct 16, 202630.68
Oct 15, 202637.623
Oct 14, 202624.615.2
Oct 13, 202627.543.8
Oct 12, 20264.78.7
Oct 11, 20261.511.5
Oct 10, 20260.82.2
Oct 9, 202616.314.6
Oct 8, 202625.112.2
Oct 7, 202616.28.3
Oct 6, 202621.54.2
Oct 5, 20264.67.3
Oct 4, 20261.20
Oct 3, 202612.70
Oct 2, 202619.317.9
Oct 1, 20262.66.9
Sep 30, 202617.89.1

Shared themes

What the stories of both topics in the last 7 days are about, as classified by the Jev model (a story can carry several themes):

ChatGPT: stories behind it

  1. chatgpt chat and work merged — Reddit (r/codex) · Oct 28 · score 964 · 367 comments
  2. They just merged my normal ChatGPT with ChatGPT Work... — Reddit (r/ChatGPT) · Oct 28 · score 289 · 89 comments
  3. API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions — Reddit (r/OpenAI) · Oct 28 · score 100 · 19 comments
  4. She Worried About Cutting Her Medication Dose. ChatGPT Told Her to Push On — Hacker News (nytimes.com) · Oct 27 · score 71 · 27 comments
  5. Woman with epilepsy dies after taking ChatGPT medical advice — Hacker News (finance.yahoo.com) · Oct 27 · score 6 · 5 comments

Grok: stories behind it

  1. Grok Bot, Muse, Dots, Gemini, Duet: five big-tech agents in 10 weeks. An honest founder’s take on what they got right, and why I think none of them will be the last one you set up — Reddit (r/AI_Agents) · Oct 28 · score 20 · 27 comments
  2. I built a free Grok Bot alternative for macOS. You can finally try it.(really completely free) — Reddit (r/AI_Agents) · Oct 28 · score 9 · 17 comments
  3. Can your AI browser agent pass as a human? We have been testing Muse, Grok, Instinct, and Manus — Reddit (r/AI_Agents) · Oct 28 · score 1 · 9 comments
  4. Top House Democrats demand Trump preserve conversations with Grok — Hacker News (politico.com) · Oct 30 · score 4 · 0 comments
  5. : Official connector so Grok Bots can send briefs directly to Cursor agents (and receive reports back — Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) (Cursor Forum) · Oct 28 · score 0 · 1 comment

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