--- title: "Anthropic — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/anthropic as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # Anthropic (🏢 Companies) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › Anthropic Anthropic is 🧊 Cooling on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 23 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 21 points higher than 7 days before. Its last hype episode ran from Sep 22 to Sep 25 and peaked at 57 on Sep 23. Anthropic, maker of Claude and Claude Code; an SF AI lab focused on safety, with an IPO in the works. First seen on Hacker News · Sep 13 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the last 14 days. Why this stage: left the hype 2 days ago; peak 57 on Sep 23. - **Stage:** 🧊 Cooling — past its peak, or just left the hype - **Hype score:** 23 / 100 · +6.9 in 1 day · +21.2 in 7 days - **In hype since:** not in hype now - **Peak, 30 days:** 89.5 on Sep 10, 2026 - **Category:** 🏢 Companies - **Official site:** [anthropic.com](https://anthropic.com) - **Sources above normal:** 1 of 29 scoring it (1 independent family) - **Stories in 7 days:** 2,107 - **Share of voice:** 3.2% 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 | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | Hacker News | mentions | 20 | 8 | 2.3× | yes | 49% | | Tech press (RSS) | items | 6 | 2 | 2.3× | no | 18% | | Luma (SF AI events) | events | 14 (Sep 26) | 9 | 1.5× | no | 11% | | Cerebral Valley (AI events) | events | 7 (Sep 26) | 3 | 2× | no | 11% | | Reddit | posts | 68 | 61.5 | 1.1× | no | 3.7% | | Manifold Markets | new markets | 2 | 0 | — | no | 3.7% | | HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) | frontpage hours | 1.7 | 0 | — | no | 1.8% | | GitHub | new repos | 98 | 91 | 1.1× | no | 1.7% | ## Stories behind it 1. [anthropics/claude-plugins-official: Official, Anthropic-managed directory of high quality Claude Code Plugins.](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official) — GitHub Trending (anthropics) · score 36,754 2. [claude-fable-5-high enters the text Arena leaderboard at #8](https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text) — LMArena (leaderboard) (anthropic) · Sep 25 · score 36,462 3. [Claude Opus 5.5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803892) — Hacker News (anthropic.com) · Sep 22 · score 1,804 · 1,129 comments 4. [Claude Opus 5.5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803892) — HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) (anthropic.com) · Sep 22 · score 1,683 · 1,025 comments 5. [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 6. [THEY FUCKING COOKED YO! Opus 5.5 is a massive upgrade.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wnt4d3/) — Reddit (r/ClaudeCode) · Sep 23 · score 1,454 · 187 comments 7. [Niko1221/Strata: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next \(125B MoE\) on a 8GB+ NVIDIA GPU: one-click install for Windows / Linux. Strata inference engine, OpenAI/Anthropic API on localhost, optional image input.](https://github.com/Niko1221/Strata) — GitHub (Niko1221) · Sep 24 · score 990 8. [RE: https://mastodon.social/@Carl\_Zimmer/117345065655681591 “The Anthropic scientists \[..\] said that their A.I. had taken “the first steps of a biological discovery on its own.”” \[Mario Rodríguez Mes…](https://front-end.social/@SaraSoueidan/117347353081013904) — Mastodon (fediverse) (front-end.social) · Sep 28 · score 414 · 11 comments 9. [Claude 5.5 Sonnet is live and it’s roughly Opus 5.5 but cheaper www.anthropic.com/claude-sonne...](https://bsky.app/profile/timkellogg.me/post/3mwlwkr2lsc2c) — Bluesky · Sep 28 · score 145 · 14 comments 10. [Claude Opus 5.5 Should Raise Your Ambitions](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/claude-opus-55-should-raise-your) — AI newsletters (RSS) (Zvi) · Sep 26 · score 118 · 27 comments 11. [Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5, its first model since Dario Amodei's “pace the frontier” essay, and says it has enhanced safeguards to combat risky behavior](https://www.techmeme.com/260922/p37#a260922p37) — Techmeme (The Verge) · Sep 22 · score 26 · 72 comments 12. [Rethinking Agents: Special Edition — What Happens When AI Starts Building With You?](https://luma.com/bpvmjt7c) — Luma (SF AI events) (Stanford Entrepreneurs) · score 120 ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 2,312 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) — 50% of its stories - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 37% of its stories - [Policy & macro](https://abovethefog.app/themes/policy_macro.md) — 31% of its stories - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 22% of its stories - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 9.3% of its stories - [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 5.5% of its stories Payment rails its stories name: - [Stablecoins / crypto](https://abovethefog.app/themes/stablecoins_crypto.md) — 1 story ## Related topics - **Related to:** [AI IPOs](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_ipos.md), [Model Context Protocol](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mcp.md) - **Competes with:** [OpenAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openai.md), [Google DeepMind](https://abovethefog.app/topics/google_deepmind.md), [Meta Superintelligence Labs](https://abovethefog.app/topics/meta_msl.md), [SpaceXAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/spacexai.md), [Mistral AI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mistral.md), [Thinking Machines Lab](https://abovethefog.app/topics/thinking_machines.md) - **Key people:** [Dario Amodei](https://abovethefog.app/topics/dario_amodei.md) - **Mentioned with:** [AI slowdown](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_slowdown.md) (163 stories), [Sam Altman](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sam_altman.md) (132 stories), [Recursive self-improvement](https://abovethefog.app/topics/recursive_self_improvement.md) (60 stories), [SF AI scene](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sf_ai_scene.md) (47 stories), [Demis Hassabis](https://abovethefog.app/topics/demis_hassabis.md) (33 stories), [AI in math](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_math.md) (18 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 23 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 26, 2026 | 16.1 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 25, 2026 | 34.2 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 24, 2026 | 36.3 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 23, 2026 | 57.2 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 22, 2026 | 51.9 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 21, 2026 | 14.2 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 20, 2026 | 1.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 4.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 18, 2026 | 62.1 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 17, 2026 | 53.3 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 16, 2026 | 52.9 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 15, 2026 | 57.2 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 14, 2026 | 80.8 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 13, 2026 | 54.2 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 12, 2026 | 56.5 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 11, 2026 | 76.7 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 10, 2026 | 89.5 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 9, 2026 | 87.6 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 8, 2026 | 23.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 3.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 1.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 12.8 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 4, 2026 | 17.9 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 3, 2026 | 41.7 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 2, 2026 | 45 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 1, 2026 | 52.9 | 🚀 Rising | | Aug 31, 2026 | 21.5 | 🧊 Cooling | | Aug 30, 2026 | 3.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 10.1 | 🧊 Cooling | [Open Anthropic in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=anthropic) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/anthropic) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)