Above the Fog

Google DeepMind vs Perplexity

Google DeepMind and Perplexity 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 Perplexity is 💤 Quiet with 9. 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 DeepMindPerplexity
Stage💤 Quiet💤 Quiet
Hype score11.29.3
7-day change−2.1+0.1
In hype sincenot in hype nownot in hype now
Peak, 30 days51.8 on Oct 14, 202617.8 on Oct 15, 2026
Stories in 7 days5015
Share of voice, 7 days0.5%0.2%
Sources above normal1 of 181 of 17
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 Perplexity the dashed one.

DayGoogle DeepMindPerplexity
Oct 29, 202611.29.3
Oct 28, 20261.32.7
Oct 27, 20262.53.3
Oct 26, 202600
Oct 25, 202600
Oct 24, 202600
Oct 23, 202613.39.2
Oct 22, 202613.39.2
Oct 21, 202613.39.2
Oct 20, 202623.48.5
Oct 19, 202622.311.4
Oct 18, 2026222.3
Oct 17, 202623.23.6
Oct 16, 20262615.8
Oct 15, 202623.717.8
Oct 14, 202651.86.6
Oct 13, 202628.714.6
Oct 12, 202615.31.1
Oct 11, 202611.40
Oct 10, 202612.61.4
Oct 9, 202625.73.3
Oct 8, 20262410.1
Oct 7, 202615.711.3
Oct 6, 20263.711
Oct 5, 202663.8
Oct 4, 20261.28.8
Oct 3, 202600
Oct 2, 20263.41.7
Oct 1, 20264.412.7
Sep 30, 20269.84.6

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

Perplexity: stories behind it

  1. Show HN: AI Knows Us – see who ChatGPT and Perplexity recommend instead of you — Hacker News (aiknowsus.com) · Oct 29 · score 4 · 2 comments
  2. How to see ChatGPT and Perplexity traffic in your WordPress analytics — DEV Community (dev.to) (#wordpress) · Oct 29 · score 1 · 1 comment
  3. We Asked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity the Same Question in 33 Categories. Here's How (and What Broke) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Oct 30 · score 0 · 0 comments
  4. Making a WordPress site readable to ChatGPT and Perplexity: HTML, content structure, and metadata — DEV Community (dev.to) (#html) · Oct 29 · score 0 · 0 comments
  5. ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity are getting election facts wrong — and a new study shows why — Google News (RSS) (Yahoo Tech) · Oct 29

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