--- title: "Cognition — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/cognition as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # Cognition (🤖 Agents) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › Cognition Cognition is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 3 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 2 points higher than 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 9 to Sep 9 (peak 26 on Sep 9). Cognition AI, owner of the Devin coding agent and the Devin Desktop editor (formerly Windsurf); valued at \~$48B in Sep 2026. First seen on Wikipedia · Sep 15 — 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:** 3 / 100 · +3 in 1 day · +2 in 7 days - **In hype since:** not in hype now - **Peak, 30 days:** 25.8 on Sep 9, 2026 - **Category:** 🤖 Agents - **Part of:** [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md) - **Official site:** [cognition.ai](https://cognition.ai) - **Sources above normal:** 0 of 27 scoring it (0 independent families) - **Stories in 7 days:** 44 - **Share of voice:** 0.1% 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 | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | Google News (RSS) | articles | 9 | 4 | 2× | no | 100% | | 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 | 1 | 1 | 1× | no | 0% | | GitHub | new repos | 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. [Thinking of cancelling Cursor Pro and switch - but which one ?](https://www.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1wpg5gt/) — Reddit (r/cursor) · Sep 24 · score 0 · 30 comments 2. [Token Optimization Techniques for AI Apps: Caps and Cost Control](https://dev.to/smartgate/token-optimization-techniques-for-ai-apps-caps-and-cost-control-21an) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#llm) · Sep 27 · score 1 · 1 comment 3. [GitHub Copilot vs Cursor vs Windsurf: The 2026 AI Coding Tool Showdown Compare GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Windsurf in 2026—features, performance, pricing, and real‑world use cases to find the best A…](https://mastodon.social/@ai_blog/117346451457491109) — Mastodon (fediverse) (mastodon.social) · Sep 28 · score 0 · 0 comments 4. [Better than cursor and windsurf](https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1wpap9k/) — Reddit (r/vibecoding) · Sep 24 · score 1 · 0 comments 5. [Gemini Advanced Download App for Android](https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiVEFVX3lxTE5hdlRhd3RhZFd6aDNyNUdUemF1RkE1WG9vWml2b1hONU5zMkZGWGExNmNiWTJtX000THBmd3c3aVlYZ2czTFRKX3dIclNtaFVYbGZXaA?oc=5) — Google News (RSS) (Học viện Nông nghiệp Việt Nam) · Sep 22 6. [Grok 4.7 is now available in Devin](https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiO0FVX3lxTE9xY3RuampfeUxRWk9ycU9hZmxXQmJoYTdTdXRxOHFSLTdnajRHR0o2elFGY0lHR0lrUlJN?oc=5) — Google News (RSS) (t.co) · Sep 21 7. [Go.AI™ Raises $85 Million Series A to Accelerate On-Prem AI Infrastructure for Regulated Industries](https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMilgFBVV95cUxNSG5rdFV4ZWx2T2NkcW45ekpaTFdsRmdBd09pMHMxajR4Rm4zd1dHSzdpX1N4ZHdfQWFHREZpN2Q0X213VWFfdWxJcVhOLVRJWE11ekdvaUFIbDc4QmpDT09KTUlZWkwwOV95QVN1WDB5dloxN3Y5QWNaZEQ4NXF5Ny1TT1RwNFZtXzQ3cTRuV0twZF8xVFE?oc=5) — Google News (RSS) (Yahoo Finance) · Sep 22 8. [Manychat AI alternatives Download App for Android](https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiU0FVX3lxTE1IVlcxbndrVU9TNmZ3a1A1eHJtTzB0dUFyWVN4c21mblZNY3pGZndoSWwya2pvM1ZweWhYSGpGZ2JkMUFWbzMzMWVTekxaNTQ0TDVR?oc=5) — Google News (RSS) (Học viện Nông nghiệp Việt Nam) · Sep 23 9. [Devin AI & SWE-2 First Impressions](https://dev.to/catalinpit/devin-ai-swe-2-first-impressions-4oo3) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 22 · score 0 · 0 comments 10. [OpenHands Beats Devin and Cline Beats Cursor on Price](https://dev.to/shaam_ai/openhands-beats-devin-and-cline-beats-cursor-on-price-1dh5) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#clinevscursor) · Sep 26 · score 0 · 0 comments 11. [Cognition's Engineers Don't Write Code By Hand Anymore — And They're the Only Ones Grading Whether That's Working](https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1wn4spv/) — Reddit (r/artificial) · Sep 22 12. [Any KSP fans vibecoding...surely it's not just me.](https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1wn098y/) — Reddit (r/vibecoding) · Sep 22 ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 36 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) — 61% of its stories - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 39% of its stories - [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 36% of its stories - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 8.3% of its stories - [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 2.8% of its stories ## Related topics - **Competes with:** [Claude Code](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude_code.md), [OpenAI Codex](https://abovethefog.app/topics/codex.md), [Cursor](https://abovethefog.app/topics/cursor.md) - **Part of:** [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md) - **Mentioned with:** [GitHub Copilot](https://abovethefog.app/topics/github_copilot.md) (4 stories), [Vibe coding](https://abovethefog.app/topics/vibe_coding.md) (3 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 26, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 25, 2026 | 14.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 24, 2026 | 4.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 23, 2026 | 1.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 22, 2026 | 0.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 21, 2026 | 2.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 20, 2026 | 1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 18, 2026 | 0.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 17, 2026 | 1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 16, 2026 | 10.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 15, 2026 | 9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 14, 2026 | 4.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 13, 2026 | 3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 12, 2026 | 11.8 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 11, 2026 | 23.4 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 10, 2026 | 23.9 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 9, 2026 | 25.8 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 8, 2026 | 24.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 12 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 8.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 4, 2026 | 3.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 3, 2026 | 13.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 2, 2026 | 24.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 1, 2026 | 1.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 1 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 1.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | [Open Cognition in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=cognition) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/cognition) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)