Every AI topic on the radar
Above the Fog’s AI hype radar tracks 96 topics. On Sep 27, 2026: 7 in hype (rising or hot), 12 cooling and 77 quiet.
Sorted by hype score. The hype score (0–100) says how far above normal the attention on a topic is across the monitored sources; the stage says where it is in its hype.
| Topic | Category | Stage | Hype score | 7-day change | In hype since |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jev | Models | 🔥 Hot | 72.1 | −27.9 | Sep 12, 2026 |
| Meta Muse | Agents | 🔥 Hot | 57.9 | +15 | Sep 8, 2026 |
| AI agents | Concepts | 🔥 Hot | 47.1 | +18.1 | Sep 8, 2026 |
| Jensen Huang | People | 🔥 Hot | 35.8 | −6.6 | Sep 20, 2026 |
| Dario Amodei | People | 🧊 Cooling | 35.3 | +12.5 | — |
| MiMo | Models | 🔥 Hot | 30.8 | +28.2 | Sep 27, 2026 |
| Cursor | Agents | 🔥 Hot | 29.3 | −9.3 | Sep 20, 2026 |
| Agent security incidents | Concepts | 🧊 Cooling | 28.2 | −1.2 | — |
| AGI - superintelligence | Concepts | 🔥 Hot | 26.6 | +9.3 | Sep 21, 2026 |
| Decision models | Concepts | 🧊 Cooling | 26 | −19.4 | — |
| Siri AI | Agents | 🧊 Cooling | 25.9 | −11.2 | — |
| Anthropic | Companies | 🧊 Cooling | 23 | +21.2 | — |
| Physical AI - humanoids | Concepts | 💤 Quiet | 22.5 | +20.1 | — |
| GLM | Models | 💤 Quiet | 21 | +18.4 | — |
| MiMo-V2.6 | Models | 🧊 Cooling | 18.6 | +8.2 | — |
| Sam Altman | People | 🧊 Cooling | 18.1 | +3.1 | — |
| Nvidia | Companies | 💤 Quiet | 17.1 | +11.7 | — |
| SF AI scene | San Francisco | 💤 Quiet | 17 | +1.5 | — |
| Hermes Agent | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 16.9 | +15.3 | — |
| Recursive self-improvement | Concepts | 💤 Quiet | 16.8 | −2.5 | — |
| Instinct | Agents | 🧊 Cooling | 15.3 | −8.8 | — |
| OpenAI | Companies | 🧊 Cooling | 15.1 | +5.7 | — |
| LMArena | Products | 🧊 Cooling | 14.8 | +1.6 | — |
| Mark Zuckerberg | People | 🧊 Cooling | 14.2 | +9.6 | — |
| DeepSeek | Models | 💤 Quiet | 12.6 | +8.9 | — |
| Meta Superintelligence Labs | Companies | 💤 Quiet | 12.1 | +3 | — |
| Claude | Models | 🧊 Cooling | 11.8 | +11 | — |
| Local inference | Products | 💤 Quiet | 10 | +8.2 | — |
| Data centers - compute | Concepts | 💤 Quiet | 9.9 | +4.6 | — |
| x402 | Concepts | 💤 Quiet | 9.9 | −17.3 | — |
| World models | Concepts | 💤 Quiet | 8.3 | +8.3 | — |
| Gemini | Models | 💤 Quiet | 5.4 | +4 | — |
| Google DeepMind | Companies | 💤 Quiet | 5.2 | −9.2 | — |
| Model Context Protocol | Products | 💤 Quiet | 4.5 | −6.4 | — |
| Daniel Lurie | San Francisco | 💤 Quiet | 3.7 | +3.7 | — |
| Demis Hassabis | People | 💤 Quiet | 3.6 | −9.2 | — |
| Claude Code | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 3.3 | −0.5 | — |
| Cognition | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 3 | +2 | — |
| Agent Skills | Products | 💤 Quiet | 2.9 | +1.9 | — |
| SF AI hackathons and events | San Francisco | 💤 Quiet | 2.9 | +2.9 | — |
| Browser Use - browser agents | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 2.8 | +0.6 | — |
| TypeSafe AI | Companies | 💤 Quiet | 2.8 | −41.9 | — |
| Vibe coding | Concepts | 💤 Quiet | 2.7 | +2.7 | — |
| Open-weight models | Concepts | 💤 Quiet | 2.6 | −12.1 | — |
| Hugging Face | Companies | 💤 Quiet | 2.3 | +1 | — |
| Foundry | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 2.2 | +2 | — |
| ChatGPT | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 2.1 | −11 | — |
| Strands | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 2 | −14.7 | — |
| Grok | Models | 💤 Quiet | 2 | −0.1 | — |
| Antigravity | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 1.9 | +1.4 | — |
| Gemma | Models | 💤 Quiet | 1.9 | +1.9 | — |
| MiniMax | Models | 💤 Quiet | 1.8 | −0.9 | — |
| OpenClaw | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 1.4 | +1.4 | — |
| Elon Musk | People | 💤 Quiet | 1.4 | +1.4 | — |
| Perplexity | Companies | 💤 Quiet | 1.1 | +1.1 | — |
| Agentic commerce | Concepts | 💤 Quiet | 1.1 | −9.1 | — |
| GPT-5.6 Sol - Terra - Luna | Models | 💤 Quiet | 1 | +0.2 | — |
| GPT-6 Astra | Models | 💤 Quiet | 0.9 | −60.2 | — |
| Claude Cowork | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 0.8 | +0.8 | — |
| AI bubble - capex | Concepts | 💤 Quiet | 0.7 | +0.7 | — |
| Muse Spark | Models | 💤 Quiet | 0.7 | −9.4 | — |
| Y Combinator | San Francisco | 💤 Quiet | 0.7 | −1.5 | — |
| GitHub Copilot | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 0.6 | 0 | — |
| Grok Bot | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 0.5 | +0.5 | — |
| Qwen | Models | 💤 Quiet | 0.5 | −18.8 | — |
| OpenRouter | Products | 💤 Quiet | 0.5 | −0.8 | — |
| DeepSeek Harness | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 0.4 | −1.9 | — |
| Vercel AI SDK | Products | 💤 Quiet | 0.4 | −1 | — |
| AGENTS.md | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 0.2 | +0.2 | — |
| OpenAI Codex | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 0.2 | −4.4 | — |
| Gemini CLI | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 0.1 | −2.1 | — |
| Grok Build | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −1.8 | — |
| LangChain | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −2.2 | — |
| LangGraph | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −1 | — |
| OpenCode | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −2.8 | — |
| Safe Superintelligence | Companies | 💤 Quiet | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sakana AI | Companies | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −1.1 | — |
| SpaceXAI | Companies | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −1.9 | — |
| Thinking Machines Lab | Companies | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −0.6 | — |
| AI IPOs | Concepts | 💤 Quiet | 0 | 0 | — |
| AI in math | Concepts | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −29.1 | — |
| AI regulation | Concepts | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −23.7 | — |
| AI slowdown | Concepts | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −43.7 | — |
| Agent harness | Concepts | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −1.3 | — |
| Claude Fable - Mythos 5.1 | Models | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −18.9 | — |
| Hunyuan | Models | 💤 Quiet | 0 | 0 | — |
| Kimi | Models | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −1.9 | — |
| Llama | Models | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −1.3 | — |
| Mistral AI | Models | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −1 | — |
| Garry Tan | People | 💤 Quiet | 0 | 0 | — |
| Banana | Products | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −14.9 | — |
| Edge0 | Products | 💤 Quiet | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sora | Products | 💤 Quiet | 0 | 0 | — |
| Dreamforce 2026 | San Francisco | 💤 Quiet | 0 | 0 | — |
| Stop the AI Race protest | San Francisco | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −10.4 | — |
| Waymo - robotaxis | San Francisco | 💤 Quiet | 0 | 0 | — |