Models

Models is one of the themes Above the Fog’s AI hype radar sorts its stories into. On Sep 27, 2026, 573 kept stories were about it (34% of the day, against a 7-day average of 35%). 6,757 stories in 7 days, up 32% on the week before.

Stories on Sep 27

573

Share of the day

34%

Share, 7-day average

35%

Change vs the 7-day average

−2 percentage points

Stories in 7 days

6,757

The 7 days before

5,126

Week over week

rising (at least 25% more than the week before)

Hands-on share

34% (tutorials, show and tell, questions)

Topics in this theme

The tracked topics most present in its stories of the last 7 days:

1. Claude — 1,546 stories (the 7 days before: 772)
2. OpenAI — 1,092 stories (the 7 days before: 716)
3. GPT-6 Astra — 883 stories (the 7 days before: 481)
4. Anthropic — 748 stories (the 7 days before: 474)
5. AI agents — 716 stories (the 7 days before: 547)
6. ChatGPT — 663 stories (the 7 days before: 430)
7. Qwen — 594 stories (the 7 days before: 598)
8. Jev — 562 stories (the 7 days before: 313)
9. Local inference — 420 stories (the 7 days before: 415)
10. Gemini — 413 stories (the 7 days before: 446)
11. Grok — 354 stories (the 7 days before: 159)
12. Meta Muse — 347 stories (the 7 days before: 73)

Also in this theme: MiMo, Cursor, AGI - superintelligence, Decision models, Physical AI - humanoids, GLM, MiMo-V2.6, Nvidia, Hermes Agent, Recursive self-improvement, LMArena, Mark Zuckerberg, DeepSeek, World models, Google DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, TypeSafe AI, Vibe coding, Open-weight models, Hugging Face, Foundry, Strands, Antigravity, Gemma, MiniMax, OpenClaw, Elon Musk, Perplexity, GPT-5.6 Sol - Terra - Luna, Claude Cowork, Muse Spark, GitHub Copilot, Grok Bot, OpenRouter, DeepSeek Harness, AGENTS.md, OpenAI Codex, Grok Build, LangChain, OpenCode, Safe Superintelligence, Sakana AI, SpaceXAI, Thinking Machines Lab, AI IPOs, AI in math, AI slowdown, Agent harness, Claude Fable - Mythos 5.1, Hunyuan, Kimi, Llama, Mistral AI, Banana, Sora, Stop the AI Race protest.

Companies in its stories

The main company involved in each story, by share of the stories (21% involve none):

• OpenAI — 20%
• Other company — 20%
• Anthropic — 18%
• Meta — 6.5%
• Google — 6.3%

Kinds of stories

• News — 40%
• Show and tell — 20%
• Opinion — 20%
• Question — 8.8%
• Research — 6.8%
• Tutorial — 4.9%

Where its stories come from

Top stories on Sep 27

1. GPT6-Luna comes out on top in Puppy Kill Bench. — Reddit (r/OpenAI) · Sep 27 · score 1,693 · 118 comments
2. 42x Faster Prompt Lookup Drafting in llama.cpp — Reddit (r/LocalLLaMA) · Sep 27 · score 607 · 172 comments
3. OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue — Hacker News (theguardian.com) · Sep 27 · score 58 · 118 comments
4. Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? — Mastodon (fediverse) (The New York Times) · Sep 27 · score 266
5. Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out — HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) (tinyaiarena.com) · Sep 27 · score 117 · 45 comments
6. Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness: Toggling 'Reasoning Mode' Made One Model 5x More Likely to Follow Its Own Mistakes — DEV Community (dev.to) (#devchallenge) · Sep 27 · score 32 · 16 comments

Stories per day, last 30 days

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