--- title: "Claude — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # Claude (🧠 Models) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › Claude Claude is 🧊 Cooling on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 12 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 11 points higher than 7 days before. Its last hype episode ran from Sep 22 to Sep 26 and peaked at 65 on Sep 22. Anthropic's family of models and AI assistant (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku, Fable, Mythos), including the Claude app. First seen on Wikipedia · Sep 14 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the last 14 days. Why this stage: left the hype 1 day ago; peak 65 on Sep 22. - **Stage:** 🧊 Cooling — past its peak, or just left the hype - **Hype score:** 11.8 / 100 · −13.6 in 1 day · +11 in 7 days - **In hype since:** not in hype now - **Peak, 30 days:** 65.2 on Sep 22, 2026 - **Category:** 🧠 Models - **Made by:** [Anthropic](https://abovethefog.app/topics/anthropic.md) - **Official site:** [claude.ai](https://claude.ai) - **Sources above normal:** 1 of 26 scoring it (1 independent family) - **Stories in 7 days:** 5,288 - **Share of voice:** 8.2% 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 | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | Reddit | posts | 513 | 372 | 1.4× | yes | 96% | | Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | items | 3 | 1 | 2× | no | 3.7% | | Manifold Markets | new markets | 1 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Hacker News | mentions | 25 | 24 | 1× | no | 0% | | Bluesky | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Google Trends (Trending now) | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Hugging Face Daily Papers | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | LMArena (leaderboard) | trending | 1 (Sep 26) | 1 | 1× | no | 0% | ## Stories behind it 1. [zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill: Reverse Engineering / Authorized Penetration Testing / Security Research Skill Router Pack AI-powered routing + On-demand toolchain bootstrapping + Self-evolving knowledge base Supports Claude Code, Kiro, Cursor, Cline, and other AI coding clients 逆向/渗透/安全技能路由包 - AI 自动路由 +](https://github.com/zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill) — GitHub Trending (zhaoxuya520) · score 37,920 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. [I built my own Monarch-style finance dashboard with Opus 5.5 for less than $20](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wr140j/) — Reddit (r/ClaudeAI) · Sep 26 · score 2,220 · 262 comments 6. [yetone/magpie: Every agent's model. One place. Codex on DeepSeek, Claude Code on Kimi, from the menu bar.](https://github.com/yetone/magpie) — GitHub (yetone) · Sep 23 · score 1,576 7. [Will Anthropic release Claude Sonnet 5.5 by October 15, 2026?](https://manifold.markets/Terminator2/will-anthropic-release-claude-sonne-QzqQORZUPu) — Manifold Markets (@Terminator2) · Sep 27 · score 1,442 8. [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 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. [Your API's newest users are agents...](https://dev.to/nikolas_dimitroulakis_d23/we-described-our-api-twice-once-for-humans-once-for-agents-4e4g) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 25 · score 62 · 11 comments ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 4,040 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes): - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 47% of its stories - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 44% of its stories - [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 39% of its stories - [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 18% of its stories - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 8.4% of its stories - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 6% of its stories Payment rails its stories name: - [x402](https://abovethefog.app/themes/x402.md) — 3 stories - [Stablecoins / crypto](https://abovethefog.app/themes/stablecoins_crypto.md) — 3 stories - [PSPs & fintechs](https://abovethefog.app/themes/psp_fintech.md) — 1 story ## Related topics - **Competes with:** [ChatGPT](https://abovethefog.app/topics/chatgpt.md), [Gemini](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gemini.md), [Grok](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok.md) - **Made by:** [Anthropic](https://abovethefog.app/topics/anthropic.md) - **Related to:** [Claude Code](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude_code.md), [Claude Cowork](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude_cowork.md), [Siri AI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/siri_ai.md) - **Mentioned with:** [OpenAI Codex](https://abovethefog.app/topics/codex.md) (1,295 stories), [OpenCode](https://abovethefog.app/topics/opencode.md) (151 stories), [AGENTS.md](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agents_md.md) (105 stories), [Agent Skills](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agent_skills.md) (87 stories), [Kimi](https://abovethefog.app/topics/kimi.md) (85 stories), [Gemini CLI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gemini_cli.md) (58 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 11.8 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 26, 2026 | 25.4 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 25, 2026 | 39.5 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 24, 2026 | 51.8 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 23, 2026 | 56.7 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 22, 2026 | 65.2 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 21, 2026 | 14.2 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 20, 2026 | 0.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 1.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 18, 2026 | 36.4 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 17, 2026 | 24.7 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 16, 2026 | 19 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 15, 2026 | 22.2 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 14, 2026 | 28.1 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 13, 2026 | 15.4 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 12, 2026 | 17.3 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 11, 2026 | 40.1 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 10, 2026 | 37.8 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 9, 2026 | 37.4 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 8, 2026 | 18.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 1.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 2.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 4, 2026 | 18.6 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 3, 2026 | 34.8 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 2, 2026 | 37.7 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 1, 2026 | 20.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 7.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 4.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | [Open Claude in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=claude) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)