--- title: "AI IPOs — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_ipos as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # AI IPOs (💡 Concepts) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › AI IPOs AI IPOs is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 0 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, about the same as 7 days before. Its attention is within the normal range across the monitored sources. Its last hype episode in the 30-day window ran from Sep 12 to Sep 14 (peak 35 on Sep 14). IPOs of AI companies, especially Anthropic's (reportedly planned for Nov 2026) and OpenAI's (pushed back to 2027). First seen on Google Trends (search interest) · Sep 13 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the last 14 days. Why this stage: within the normal range across monitored sources. - **Stage:** 💤 Quiet — within the normal range across the monitored sources - **Hype score:** 0 / 100 · 0 in 1 day · 0 in 7 days - **In hype since:** not in hype now - **Peak, 30 days:** 34.7 on Sep 14, 2026 - **Category:** 💡 Concepts - **Sources above normal:** 0 of 23 scoring it (0 independent families) - **Stories in 7 days:** 108 - **Share of voice:** 0.2% of the radar’s attention in 7 days ## Where the attention comes from “Normal” is the median of the source’s previous 14 normal days for this topic. A source is above normal when its value is at least 30% over that level and stands out from its usual day-to-day variation (z ≥ 2); the share is the part of the hype score that source explains. “× normal” is left blank when the normal level is 0. | Source | Metric | Latest | Normal | × normal | Above normal | Share of score | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | Tech press (RSS) | items | 1 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Reddit | posts | 2 | 1.5 | 1.2× | no | 0% | | Bluesky | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Cerebral Valley (AI events) | events | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | DEV Community (dev.to) | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | GitHub Trending | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Google Trends (Trending now) | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | ## Stories behind it 1. [Will Anthropic’s IPO S-1 be public by 16 October 2026?](https://manifold.markets/jim/will-anthropics-ipo-s1-be-public-by) — Manifold Markets (@jim) · Sep 23 · score 2,162 2. [16GB iPod Nano 3G Upgrade](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49826087) — Hacker News (tuckerosman.com) · Sep 24 · score 166 · 32 comments 3. [Chinese optical transceiver maker Ligent jumps 19% in its Hong Kong debut, giving it a \~$4.6B market cap, after raising \~$727M, the latest Hong Kong AI IPO](https://www.techmeme.com/260922/p9#a260922p9) — Techmeme (Bloomberg) · Sep 22 · score 4 · 1 comment 4. [LexTalk World Conference & Exhibition San Francisco 2026](https://luma.com/jpa12p0c) — Luma (SF AI events) (LexTalk World) · score 4 5. [@top\_news translated: OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs are desperate to stall their ipo launches, which will collapse the #aibubble #ai #aihype #aiscam](https://mastodon.world/@Captain_Jack_Sparrow/117322790566009556) — Mastodon (fediverse) (mastodon.world) · Sep 23 · score 3 · 0 comments 6. [A price cut with an IPO behind it! Is Anthropic competing with OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra?](https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1wo6tpx/) — Reddit (r/OpenAI) · Sep 23 · score 1 · 0 comments 7. [Anthropic releases cheaper AI model ahead of IPO](https://www.ft.com/content/0e50a3c6-9731-4b29-a21e-4e0ff89a595e?syn-25a6b1a6=1) — Google Trends (Trending now) (Financial Times) · Sep 22 8. [Smart Ring Maker Oura, Backers Seek $2.2B in US IPO](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49796292) — Hacker News (bloomberg.com) · Sep 22 · score 24 · 11 comments 9. [FYI: Claude gains 540% in visits with 0.46% from paid traffic, Similarweb finds: Six-month retention for new claude.ai users rose to 45% from 25% ahead of Anthropic's planned IPO. The open question i…](https://mastodon.social/@ppcland/117349654860941200) — Mastodon (fediverse) (mastodon.social) · Sep 28 · score 2 · 0 comments 10. [Anthropic/OpenAI sound alarm on AI safety and seek to shape how to control it](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869486) — Hacker News (apnews.com) · Sep 27 · score 7 · 3 comments 11. [Anthropic’s founders seek voting control ahead of IPO](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/anthropics-founders-seek-voting-control-ahead-of-ipo/) — Tech press (RSS) (TechCrunch) · Sep 25 12. [Why Oura May Not Be the Healthiest IPO](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/oura-may-healthiest-ipo) — Tech press (RSS) (The Information) · Sep 27 ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 103 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes): - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 96% of its stories - [Policy & macro](https://abovethefog.app/themes/policy_macro.md) — 22% of its stories - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 20% of its stories - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 5.8% of its stories - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 3.9% of its stories - [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 1% of its stories ## Related topics - **Related to:** [AI bubble - capex](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_bubble.md), [Anthropic](https://abovethefog.app/topics/anthropic.md), [OpenAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openai.md) - **Mentioned with:** [Dario Amodei](https://abovethefog.app/topics/dario_amodei.md) (24 stories), [Sam Altman](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sam_altman.md) (24 stories), [AI slowdown](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_slowdown.md) (17 stories), [Instinct](https://abovethefog.app/topics/instinct.md) (3 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 26, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 25, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 24, 2026 | 2.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 23, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 22, 2026 | 9.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 21, 2026 | 12.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 20, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 1.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 18, 2026 | 3.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 17, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 16, 2026 | 2.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 15, 2026 | 17.6 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 14, 2026 | 34.7 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 13, 2026 | 12.3 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 12, 2026 | 31.4 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 11, 2026 | 9.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 10, 2026 | 10.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 9, 2026 | 0.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 8, 2026 | 21.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 1.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 8.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 2.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 4, 2026 | 4.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 3, 2026 | 0.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 2, 2026 | 11.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 1, 2026 | 0.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 2.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | [Open AI IPOs in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=ai_ipos) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_ipos) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)