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Gemini vs GPT-6 Astra

Gemini and GPT-6 Astra side by side on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar, on Oct 29, 2026: Gemini is 🧊 Cooling with a hype score of 22 and GPT-6 Astra is 💤 Quiet with 11. 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

MeasureGeminiGPT-6 Astra
Stage🧊 Cooling💤 Quiet
Hype score21.511.2
7-day change+14.9−2.3
In hype sincenot in hype nownot in hype now
Peak, 30 days77.7 on Oct 14, 202651.7 on Oct 8, 2026
Stories in 7 days416217
Share of voice, 7 days3.5%2%
Sources above normal1 of 211 of 18
Category🧠 Models🧠 Models

Hype score, last 30 days

Both hype scores by day, newest first; on the page’s chart, Gemini is the solid line and GPT-6 Astra the dashed one.

DayGeminiGPT-6 Astra
Oct 29, 202621.511.2
Oct 28, 202631.713.5
Oct 27, 20265.11.6
Oct 26, 20261.910.6
Oct 25, 202600
Oct 24, 202600
Oct 23, 20266.113.6
Oct 22, 20266.713.6
Oct 21, 20266.716
Oct 20, 202611.914.3
Oct 19, 20267.11.8
Oct 18, 202630
Oct 17, 202614.70
Oct 16, 202643.11.1
Oct 15, 202642.12.4
Oct 14, 202677.72.1
Oct 13, 202642.614.5
Oct 12, 202616.3
Oct 11, 20261.50.7
Oct 10, 20261.18.8
Oct 9, 20265.64.5
Oct 8, 202625.751.7
Oct 7, 202623.733.5
Oct 6, 2026151.3
Oct 5, 2026111.1
Oct 4, 202600
Oct 3, 20261.68.7
Oct 2, 202616.313.6
Oct 1, 202660.618.7
Sep 30, 202637.938.2

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):

Gemini: stories behind it

  1. Gemini 4 Carbon — Reddit (r/singularity) · Oct 28 · score 1,593 · 525 comments
  2. Alphabet introducing Gemini 4 Carbon, next frontier model. — Reddit (r/GeminiAI) · Oct 28 · score 1,288 · 254 comments
  3. Gemini 4 Carbon Annonced — Reddit (r/GeminiAI) · Oct 28 · score 616 · 80 comments
  4. Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 — Hacker News (artificialanalysis.ai) · Oct 29 · score 336 · 245 comments
  5. Gemini is censoring Joe Biden in election-related results — Hacker News (twitter.com) · Oct 28 · score 13 · 2 comments

GPT-6 Astra: stories behind it

  1. GPT-6 Astra painted this on a real robot arm, then filmed and edited it, all from one chat — Reddit (r/singularity) · Oct 28 · score 806 · 186 comments
  2. SELECT GPT 6 SOL IN THE MODEL PICKER TO USE CHAT MODE — Reddit (r/ChatGPT) · Oct 28 · score 76 · 32 comments
  3. Analysis Intelligence Index v5, featuring 2 new benchmarks and 3 upgrades. For the first time, the majority of the Index is built on private datasets. GPT 6.1 Terra >>> Argon — Reddit (r/codex) · Oct 28 · score 67 · 25 comments
  4. GPT-6.1 Terra's price cut, recomputed for a cache-heavy agent session — Hacker News (theainewsreport.com) · Oct 27 · score 5 · 0 comments
  5. GPT-6.1 Terra now available in Microsoft Foundry — Hacker News (techcommunity.microsoft.com) · Oct 27 · score 3 · 0 comments

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