--- title: "Models — AI theme on Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/themes/models as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # Models [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Themes](https://abovethefog.app/themes.md) › 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](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude.md) — 1,546 stories (the 7 days before: 772) 2. [OpenAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openai.md) — 1,092 stories (the 7 days before: 716) 3. [GPT-6 Astra](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gpt6.md) — 883 stories (the 7 days before: 481) 4. [Anthropic](https://abovethefog.app/topics/anthropic.md) — 748 stories (the 7 days before: 474) 5. [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md) — 716 stories (the 7 days before: 547) 6. [ChatGPT](https://abovethefog.app/topics/chatgpt.md) — 663 stories (the 7 days before: 430) 7. [Qwen](https://abovethefog.app/topics/qwen.md) — 594 stories (the 7 days before: 598) 8. [Jev](https://abovethefog.app/topics/jev.md) — 562 stories (the 7 days before: 313) 9. [Local inference](https://abovethefog.app/topics/local_inference.md) — 420 stories (the 7 days before: 415) 10. [Gemini](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gemini.md) — 413 stories (the 7 days before: 446) 11. [Grok](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok.md) — 354 stories (the 7 days before: 159) 12. [Meta Muse](https://abovethefog.app/topics/meta_muse.md) — 347 stories (the 7 days before: 73) Also in this theme: [MiMo](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mimo.md), [Cursor](https://abovethefog.app/topics/cursor.md), [AGI - superintelligence](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agi.md), [Decision models](https://abovethefog.app/topics/decision_models.md), [Physical AI - humanoids](https://abovethefog.app/topics/physical_ai.md), [GLM](https://abovethefog.app/topics/glm.md), [MiMo-V2.6](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mimo_v2_6.md), [Nvidia](https://abovethefog.app/topics/nvidia.md), [Hermes Agent](https://abovethefog.app/topics/hermes_agent.md), [Recursive self-improvement](https://abovethefog.app/topics/recursive_self_improvement.md), [LMArena](https://abovethefog.app/topics/lmarena.md), [Mark Zuckerberg](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mark_zuckerberg.md), [DeepSeek](https://abovethefog.app/topics/deepseek.md), [World models](https://abovethefog.app/topics/world_models.md), [Google DeepMind](https://abovethefog.app/topics/google_deepmind.md), [Demis Hassabis](https://abovethefog.app/topics/demis_hassabis.md), [TypeSafe AI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/typesafe_ai.md), [Vibe coding](https://abovethefog.app/topics/vibe_coding.md), [Open-weight models](https://abovethefog.app/topics/open_weights.md), [Hugging Face](https://abovethefog.app/topics/hugging_face.md), [Foundry](https://abovethefog.app/topics/foundry.md), [Strands](https://abovethefog.app/topics/strands.md), [Antigravity](https://abovethefog.app/topics/antigravity.md), [Gemma](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gemma.md), [MiniMax](https://abovethefog.app/topics/minimax.md), [OpenClaw](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openclaw.md), [Elon Musk](https://abovethefog.app/topics/elon_musk.md), [Perplexity](https://abovethefog.app/topics/perplexity.md), [GPT-5.6 Sol - Terra - Luna](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gpt56.md), [Claude Cowork](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude_cowork.md), [Muse Spark](https://abovethefog.app/topics/muse_spark.md), [GitHub Copilot](https://abovethefog.app/topics/github_copilot.md), [Grok Bot](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok_bot.md), [OpenRouter](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openrouter.md), [DeepSeek Harness](https://abovethefog.app/topics/deepseek_harness.md), [AGENTS.md](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agents_md.md), [OpenAI Codex](https://abovethefog.app/topics/codex.md), [Grok Build](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok_build.md), [LangChain](https://abovethefog.app/topics/langchain.md), [OpenCode](https://abovethefog.app/topics/opencode.md), [Safe Superintelligence](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ssi.md), [Sakana AI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sakana.md), [SpaceXAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/spacexai.md), [Thinking Machines Lab](https://abovethefog.app/topics/thinking_machines.md), [AI IPOs](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_ipos.md), [AI in math](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_math.md), [AI slowdown](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_slowdown.md), [Agent harness](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agent_harness.md), [Claude Fable - Mythos 5.1](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude_fable_mythos.md), [Hunyuan](https://abovethefog.app/topics/hunyuan.md), [Kimi](https://abovethefog.app/topics/kimi.md), [Llama](https://abovethefog.app/topics/llama.md), [Mistral AI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mistral.md), [Banana](https://abovethefog.app/topics/banana.md), [Sora](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sora.md), [Stop the AI Race protest](https://abovethefog.app/topics/stop_ai_race.md). ## 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 | Source | Stories in 7 days | Share | |---|---:|---:| | Reddit | 2,893 | 43% | | Google News (RSS) | 1,620 | 24% | | DEV Community (dev.to) | 646 | 9.6% | | Mastodon (fediverse) | 441 | 6.5% | | Hacker News | 301 | 4.5% | | Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) | 210 | 3.1% | | arXiv (cs.CL / cs.AI / cs.LG) | 132 | 1.9% | | Hugging Face Daily Papers | 107 | 1.6% | ## Top stories on Sep 27 1. [GPT6-Luna comes out on top in Puppy Kill Bench.](https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1wr8r6g/) — Reddit (r/OpenAI) · Sep 27 · score 1,693 · 118 comments 2. [42x Faster Prompt Lookup Drafting in llama.cpp](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wr5ylm/) — Reddit (r/LocalLLaMA) · Sep 27 · score 607 · 172 comments 3. [OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868202) — Hacker News (theguardian.com) · Sep 27 · score 58 · 118 comments 4. [Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own?](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/science/anthropic-biology-enzyme-mestre.html) — Mastodon (fediverse) (The New York Times) · Sep 27 · score 266 5. [Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867775) — 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](https://dev.to/dj29/chain-of-thought-faithfulness-toggling-reasoning-mode-made-one-model-5x-more-likely-to-follow-39b3) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#devchallenge) · Sep 27 · score 32 · 16 comments ## Stories per day, last 30 days | Day | Stories | |---|---:| | Sep 27, 2026 | 573 | | Sep 26, 2026 | 659 | | Sep 25, 2026 | 905 | | Sep 24, 2026 | 977 | | Sep 23, 2026 | 1,227 | | Sep 22, 2026 | 1,447 | | Sep 21, 2026 | 969 | | Sep 20, 2026 | 585 | | Sep 19, 2026 | 540 | | Sep 18, 2026 | 1,049 | | Sep 17, 2026 | 999 | | Sep 16, 2026 | 723 | | Sep 15, 2026 | 608 | | Sep 14, 2026 | 622 | | Sep 13, 2026 | 419 | | Sep 12, 2026 | 453 | | Sep 11, 2026 | 619 | | Sep 10, 2026 | 611 | | Sep 9, 2026 | 550 | | Sep 8, 2026 | 560 | | Sep 7, 2026 | 462 | | Sep 6, 2026 | 393 | | Sep 5, 2026 | 467 | | Sep 4, 2026 | 627 | | Sep 3, 2026 | 775 | | Sep 2, 2026 | 664 | | Sep 1, 2026 | 592 | | Aug 31, 2026 | 417 | | Aug 30, 2026 | 312 | | Aug 29, 2026 | 333 | [Open Models in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#theme=models) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)