Gemini vs Grok
Gemini and Grok 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 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
| Measure | Gemini | Grok |
|---|---|---|
| Stage | 🧊 Cooling | 💤 Quiet |
| Hype score | 21.5 | 9.8 |
| 7-day change | +14.9 | +5.5 |
| In hype since | not in hype now | not in hype now |
| Peak, 30 days | 77.7 on Oct 14, 2026 | 43.8 on Oct 13, 2026 |
| Stories in 7 days | 416 | 183 |
| Share of voice, 7 days | 3.5% | 1.2% |
| Sources above normal | 1 of 21 | 1 of 20 |
| 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 Grok the dashed one.
| Day | Gemini | Grok |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 2026 | 21.5 | 9.8 |
| Oct 28, 2026 | 31.7 | 1.9 |
| Oct 27, 2026 | 5.1 | 4.2 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | 1.9 | 1.7 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | 6.1 | 3.4 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | 6.7 | 4.3 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | 6.7 | 19.9 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | 11.9 | 17.5 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | 7.1 | 15.6 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | 3 | 2.5 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 14.7 | 3.3 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | 43.1 | 8 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | 42.1 | 23 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | 77.7 | 15.2 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | 42.6 | 43.8 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | 1 | 8.7 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | 1.5 | 11.5 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.1 | 2.2 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | 5.6 | 14.6 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | 25.7 | 12.2 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | 23.7 | 8.3 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | 15 | 4.2 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | 11 | 7.3 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.6 | 0 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | 16.3 | 17.9 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | 60.6 | 6.9 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 37.9 | 9.1 |
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):
- Models — 68% of Gemini’s stories, 35% of Grok’s
- Agents — 25% of Gemini’s stories, 65% of Grok’s
- Usage & adoption — 18% of Gemini’s stories, 19% of Grok’s
- Protocols & infra — 11% of Gemini’s stories, 8.3% of Grok’s
- Companies & business — 7.9% of Gemini’s stories, 8.3% of Grok’s
Gemini: stories behind it
- Gemini 4 Carbon — Reddit (r/singularity) · Oct 28 · score 1,593 · 525 comments
- Alphabet introducing Gemini 4 Carbon, next frontier model. — Reddit (r/GeminiAI) · Oct 28 · score 1,288 · 254 comments
- Gemini 4 Carbon Annonced — Reddit (r/GeminiAI) · Oct 28 · score 616 · 80 comments
- Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 — Hacker News (artificialanalysis.ai) · Oct 29 · score 336 · 245 comments
- Gemini is censoring Joe Biden in election-related results — Hacker News (twitter.com) · Oct 28 · score 13 · 2 comments
Grok: stories behind it
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Top House Democrats demand Trump preserve conversations with Grok — Hacker News (politico.com) · Oct 30 · score 4 · 0 comments
- : 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