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title: "AI topics — hype scores and stages · Above the Fog"
canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics
as_of: 2026-09-27
updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z
---

# Every AI topic on the radar

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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](https://abovethefog.app/topics/jev.md) | Models | 🔥 Hot | 72.1 | −27.9 | Sep 12, 2026 |
| [Meta Muse](https://abovethefog.app/topics/meta_muse.md) | Agents | 🔥 Hot | 57.9 | +15 | Sep 8, 2026 |
| [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md) | Concepts | 🔥 Hot | 47.1 | +18.1 | Sep 8, 2026 |
| [Jensen Huang](https://abovethefog.app/topics/jensen_huang.md) | People | 🔥 Hot | 35.8 | −6.6 | Sep 20, 2026 |
| [Dario Amodei](https://abovethefog.app/topics/dario_amodei.md) | People | 🧊 Cooling | 35.3 | +12.5 | — |
| [MiMo](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mimo.md) | Models | 🔥 Hot | 30.8 | +28.2 | Sep 27, 2026 |
| [Cursor](https://abovethefog.app/topics/cursor.md) | Agents | 🔥 Hot | 29.3 | −9.3 | Sep 20, 2026 |
| [Agent security incidents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agent_security.md) | Concepts | 🧊 Cooling | 28.2 | −1.2 | — |
| [AGI - superintelligence](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agi.md) | Concepts | 🔥 Hot | 26.6 | +9.3 | Sep 21, 2026 |
| [Decision models](https://abovethefog.app/topics/decision_models.md) | Concepts | 🧊 Cooling | 26 | −19.4 | — |
| [Siri AI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/siri_ai.md) | Agents | 🧊 Cooling | 25.9 | −11.2 | — |
| [Anthropic](https://abovethefog.app/topics/anthropic.md) | Companies | 🧊 Cooling | 23 | +21.2 | — |
| [Physical AI - humanoids](https://abovethefog.app/topics/physical_ai.md) | Concepts | 💤 Quiet | 22.5 | +20.1 | — |
| [GLM](https://abovethefog.app/topics/glm.md) | Models | 💤 Quiet | 21 | +18.4 | — |
| [MiMo-V2.6](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mimo_v2_6.md) | Models | 🧊 Cooling | 18.6 | +8.2 | — |
| [Sam Altman](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sam_altman.md) | People | 🧊 Cooling | 18.1 | +3.1 | — |
| [Nvidia](https://abovethefog.app/topics/nvidia.md) | Companies | 💤 Quiet | 17.1 | +11.7 | — |
| [SF AI scene](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sf_ai_scene.md) | San Francisco | 💤 Quiet | 17 | +1.5 | — |
| [Hermes Agent](https://abovethefog.app/topics/hermes_agent.md) | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 16.9 | +15.3 | — |
| [Recursive self-improvement](https://abovethefog.app/topics/recursive_self_improvement.md) | Concepts | 💤 Quiet | 16.8 | −2.5 | — |
| [Instinct](https://abovethefog.app/topics/instinct.md) | Agents | 🧊 Cooling | 15.3 | −8.8 | — |
| [OpenAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openai.md) | Companies | 🧊 Cooling | 15.1 | +5.7 | — |
| [LMArena](https://abovethefog.app/topics/lmarena.md) | Products | 🧊 Cooling | 14.8 | +1.6 | — |
| [Mark Zuckerberg](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mark_zuckerberg.md) | People | 🧊 Cooling | 14.2 | +9.6 | — |
| [DeepSeek](https://abovethefog.app/topics/deepseek.md) | Models | 💤 Quiet | 12.6 | +8.9 | — |
| [Meta Superintelligence Labs](https://abovethefog.app/topics/meta_msl.md) | Companies | 💤 Quiet | 12.1 | +3 | — |
| [Claude](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude.md) | Models | 🧊 Cooling | 11.8 | +11 | — |
| [Local inference](https://abovethefog.app/topics/local_inference.md) | Products | 💤 Quiet | 10 | +8.2 | — |
| [Data centers - compute](https://abovethefog.app/topics/data_centers.md) | Concepts | 💤 Quiet | 9.9 | +4.6 | — |
| [x402](https://abovethefog.app/topics/x402.md) | Concepts | 💤 Quiet | 9.9 | −17.3 | — |
| [World models](https://abovethefog.app/topics/world_models.md) | Concepts | 💤 Quiet | 8.3 | +8.3 | — |
| [Gemini](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gemini.md) | Models | 💤 Quiet | 5.4 | +4 | — |
| [Google DeepMind](https://abovethefog.app/topics/google_deepmind.md) | Companies | 💤 Quiet | 5.2 | −9.2 | — |
| [Model Context Protocol](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mcp.md) | Products | 💤 Quiet | 4.5 | −6.4 | — |
| [Daniel Lurie](https://abovethefog.app/topics/daniel_lurie.md) | San Francisco | 💤 Quiet | 3.7 | +3.7 | — |
| [Demis Hassabis](https://abovethefog.app/topics/demis_hassabis.md) | People | 💤 Quiet | 3.6 | −9.2 | — |
| [Claude Code](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude_code.md) | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 3.3 | −0.5 | — |
| [Cognition](https://abovethefog.app/topics/cognition.md) | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 3 | +2 | — |
| [Agent Skills](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agent_skills.md) | Products | 💤 Quiet | 2.9 | +1.9 | — |
| [SF AI hackathons and events](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sf_hackathons.md) | San Francisco | 💤 Quiet | 2.9 | +2.9 | — |
| [Browser Use - browser agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/browser_use.md) | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 2.8 | +0.6 | — |
| [TypeSafe AI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/typesafe_ai.md) | Companies | 💤 Quiet | 2.8 | −41.9 | — |
| [Vibe coding](https://abovethefog.app/topics/vibe_coding.md) | Concepts | 💤 Quiet | 2.7 | +2.7 | — |
| [Open-weight models](https://abovethefog.app/topics/open_weights.md) | Concepts | 💤 Quiet | 2.6 | −12.1 | — |
| [Hugging Face](https://abovethefog.app/topics/hugging_face.md) | Companies | 💤 Quiet | 2.3 | +1 | — |
| [Foundry](https://abovethefog.app/topics/foundry.md) | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 2.2 | +2 | — |
| [ChatGPT](https://abovethefog.app/topics/chatgpt.md) | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 2.1 | −11 | — |
| [Strands](https://abovethefog.app/topics/strands.md) | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 2 | −14.7 | — |
| [Grok](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok.md) | Models | 💤 Quiet | 2 | −0.1 | — |
| [Antigravity](https://abovethefog.app/topics/antigravity.md) | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 1.9 | +1.4 | — |
| [Gemma](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gemma.md) | Models | 💤 Quiet | 1.9 | +1.9 | — |
| [MiniMax](https://abovethefog.app/topics/minimax.md) | Models | 💤 Quiet | 1.8 | −0.9 | — |
| [OpenClaw](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openclaw.md) | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 1.4 | +1.4 | — |
| [Elon Musk](https://abovethefog.app/topics/elon_musk.md) | People | 💤 Quiet | 1.4 | +1.4 | — |
| [Perplexity](https://abovethefog.app/topics/perplexity.md) | Companies | 💤 Quiet | 1.1 | +1.1 | — |
| [Agentic commerce](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agentic_commerce.md) | Concepts | 💤 Quiet | 1.1 | −9.1 | — |
| [GPT-5.6 Sol - Terra - Luna](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gpt56.md) | Models | 💤 Quiet | 1 | +0.2 | — |
| [GPT-6 Astra](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gpt6.md) | Models | 💤 Quiet | 0.9 | −60.2 | — |
| [Claude Cowork](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude_cowork.md) | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 0.8 | +0.8 | — |
| [AI bubble - capex](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_bubble.md) | Concepts | 💤 Quiet | 0.7 | +0.7 | — |
| [Muse Spark](https://abovethefog.app/topics/muse_spark.md) | Models | 💤 Quiet | 0.7 | −9.4 | — |
| [Y Combinator](https://abovethefog.app/topics/y_combinator.md) | San Francisco | 💤 Quiet | 0.7 | −1.5 | — |
| [GitHub Copilot](https://abovethefog.app/topics/github_copilot.md) | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 0.6 | 0 | — |
| [Grok Bot](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok_bot.md) | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 0.5 | +0.5 | — |
| [Qwen](https://abovethefog.app/topics/qwen.md) | Models | 💤 Quiet | 0.5 | −18.8 | — |
| [OpenRouter](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openrouter.md) | Products | 💤 Quiet | 0.5 | −0.8 | — |
| [DeepSeek Harness](https://abovethefog.app/topics/deepseek_harness.md) | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 0.4 | −1.9 | — |
| [Vercel AI SDK](https://abovethefog.app/topics/vercel_ai_sdk.md) | Products | 💤 Quiet | 0.4 | −1 | — |
| [AGENTS.md](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agents_md.md) | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 0.2 | +0.2 | — |
| [OpenAI Codex](https://abovethefog.app/topics/codex.md) | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 0.2 | −4.4 | — |
| [Gemini CLI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gemini_cli.md) | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 0.1 | −2.1 | — |
| [Grok Build](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok_build.md) | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −1.8 | — |
| [LangChain](https://abovethefog.app/topics/langchain.md) | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −2.2 | — |
| [LangGraph](https://abovethefog.app/topics/langgraph.md) | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −1 | — |
| [OpenCode](https://abovethefog.app/topics/opencode.md) | Agents | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −2.8 | — |
| [Safe Superintelligence](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ssi.md) | Companies | 💤 Quiet | 0 | 0 | — |
| [Sakana AI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sakana.md) | Companies | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −1.1 | — |
| [SpaceXAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/spacexai.md) | Companies | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −1.9 | — |
| [Thinking Machines Lab](https://abovethefog.app/topics/thinking_machines.md) | Companies | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −0.6 | — |
| [AI IPOs](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_ipos.md) | Concepts | 💤 Quiet | 0 | 0 | — |
| [AI in math](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_math.md) | Concepts | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −29.1 | — |
| [AI regulation](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_regulation.md) | Concepts | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −23.7 | — |
| [AI slowdown](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_slowdown.md) | Concepts | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −43.7 | — |
| [Agent harness](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agent_harness.md) | Concepts | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −1.3 | — |
| [Claude Fable - Mythos 5.1](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude_fable_mythos.md) | Models | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −18.9 | — |
| [Hunyuan](https://abovethefog.app/topics/hunyuan.md) | Models | 💤 Quiet | 0 | 0 | — |
| [Kimi](https://abovethefog.app/topics/kimi.md) | Models | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −1.9 | — |
| [Llama](https://abovethefog.app/topics/llama.md) | Models | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −1.3 | — |
| [Mistral AI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mistral.md) | Models | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −1 | — |
| [Garry Tan](https://abovethefog.app/topics/garry_tan.md) | People | 💤 Quiet | 0 | 0 | — |
| [Banana](https://abovethefog.app/topics/banana.md) | Products | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −14.9 | — |
| [Edge0](https://abovethefog.app/topics/edge0.md) | Products | 💤 Quiet | 0 | 0 | — |
| [Sora](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sora.md) | Products | 💤 Quiet | 0 | 0 | — |
| [Dreamforce 2026](https://abovethefog.app/topics/dreamforce.md) | San Francisco | 💤 Quiet | 0 | 0 | — |
| [Stop the AI Race protest](https://abovethefog.app/topics/stop_ai_race.md) | San Francisco | 💤 Quiet | 0 | −10.4 | — |
| [Waymo - robotaxis](https://abovethefog.app/topics/waymo.md) | San Francisco | 💤 Quiet | 0 | 0 | — |

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Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar

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