Above the Fog

Google DeepMind vs OpenAI

Google DeepMind and OpenAI side by side on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar, on Oct 29, 2026: Google DeepMind is 💤 Quiet with a hype score of 11 and OpenAI is 💤 Quiet with 16. 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

MeasureGoogle DeepMindOpenAI
Stage💤 Quiet💤 Quiet
Hype score11.216.4
7-day change−2.1−6.7
In hype sincenot in hype nownot in hype now
Peak, 30 days51.8 on Oct 14, 202671.8 on Sep 30, 2026
Stories in 7 days50496
Share of voice, 7 days0.5%5.6%
Sources above normal1 of 181 of 20
Category🏢 Companies🏢 Companies

Hype score, last 30 days

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

DayGoogle DeepMindOpenAI
Oct 29, 202611.216.4
Oct 28, 20261.36.8
Oct 27, 20262.55.5
Oct 26, 202604.7
Oct 25, 202600.4
Oct 24, 202600
Oct 23, 202613.318
Oct 22, 202613.323
Oct 21, 202613.324.7
Oct 20, 202623.414.7
Oct 19, 202622.35.7
Oct 18, 20262212.1
Oct 17, 202623.211.2
Oct 16, 20262621.3
Oct 15, 202623.728.1
Oct 14, 202651.840.2
Oct 13, 202628.711.3
Oct 12, 202615.31.4
Oct 11, 202611.40.3
Oct 10, 202612.60
Oct 9, 202625.718.1
Oct 8, 20262440.1
Oct 7, 202615.747.2
Oct 6, 20263.717.7
Oct 5, 202664.2
Oct 4, 20261.20.7
Oct 3, 202600
Oct 2, 20263.413.7
Oct 1, 20264.49.1
Sep 30, 20269.871.8

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):

Google DeepMind: stories behind it

  1. More AI researchers defect from Google DeepMind, fueling rumors of a sclerotic strategy inside the company — Reddit (r/bayarea) · Oct 28 · score 77 · 8 comments
  2. DeepMind’s Genie 4 adds native audio, live dialogue, and an LLM “director” loop. What stands out to you? — Reddit (r/LocalLLM) · Oct 28 · score 2 · 2 comments
  3. DeepMind unveils Genie 4 world model promising more realistic physics and humans — Hacker News (arstechnica.com) · Oct 27 · score 5 · 1 comment
  4. Google DeepMind launches Genie 4, a world model powered by Gemini 3.8 Flash designed to generate interactive AI simulations, in preview first to trusted testers — Techmeme (The Verge) · Oct 27
  5. How to Scale Your Model – Google DeepMind — Hacker News (jax-ml.github.io) · Oct 29 · score 2 · 0 comments

OpenAI: stories behind it

  1. Ex-OpenAI researcher: "anthropic is massively underplaying the recent security breach. i'm hearing cathedral achieved full administrator access of the slack (see every message) where literally every single research secret is contained" — Reddit (r/OpenAI) · Oct 28 · score 379 · 38 comments
  2. OpenAI brings its always-on Dots agent into text messages — Reddit (r/OpenAI) · Oct 28 · score 140 · 54 comments
  3. Epileptic woman dies after going to ChatGPT for medical advice; family files lawsuit against OpenAI — Reddit (r/OpenAI) · Oct 28 · score 0 · 35 comments
  4. OpenAI: We are doubling all usage limits for all Pro 100/200/500 tiers — Hacker News (twitter.com) · Oct 29 · score 14 · 1 comment
  5. Dueling proofs from OpenAI and Anthropic astound scientists — Hacker News (scientificamerican.com) · Oct 28 · score 3 · 4 comments

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