DeepSeek 🧠 Models

DeepSeek is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 13 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 9 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 14 to Sep 17 (peak 50 on Sep 16).

Chinese AI lab and its family of open-weight models (DeepSeek V4 / V4.1 Flash).

First seen on Wikipedia · 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

12.6 / 100 · +10.4 in 1 day · +8.9 in 7 days

In hype since

not in hype now

Peak, 30 days

74 on Sep 10, 2026

Category

🧠 Models

Part of

Open-weight models

Official site

deepseek.com

Sources above normal

1 of 25 scoring it (1 independent family)

Stories in 7 days

570

Share of voice

1.2% 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.

Stories behind it

1. deepseek-v4.1-flash-max enters the text Arena leaderboard at #35 — LMArena (leaderboard) (deepseek) · Sep 25 · score 6,630
2. yetone/magpie: Every agent's model. One place. Codex on DeepSeek, Claude Code on Kimi, from the menu bar. — GitHub (yetone) · Sep 23 · score 1,576
3. The World On DeepSeek Right Now — Reddit (r/DeepSeek) · Sep 24 · score 594 · 84 comments
4. DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec) — Hacker News (arxiv.org) · Sep 26 · score 322 · 110 comments
5. DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec) — HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) (arxiv.org) · Sep 26 · score 322 · 110 comments
6. 90/30 Club Reading: DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression — Luma (SF AI events) (90/30 Club) · score 100
7. [AINews] Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro 1T-A42B: the new top Open Weights model, trained for $3M — AI newsletters (RSS) (AINews) · Sep 22 · score 57 · 0 comments
8. Sources: the Cyberspace Administration of China is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot over alleged data leaks to Anthropic via Claude and has questioned staff — Techmeme (The Information) · Sep 22 · score 2 · 5 comments
9. Can DeepSeek 4.1 Flash Replace Your $20 Coding Subscription? — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 27 · score 0 · 3 comments
10. SplitMOE- similar to deepseek-MOE `same same but different` — Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) (Hugging Face Forums) · Sep 22 · score 3 · 1 comment
11. Some first results on @Posit assistant: It's easy to set up with some subscription APIs, like #deepseek . It also works very well in that case, but it obviously costs money and karma points. Working… — Mastodon (fediverse) (mstdn.social) · Sep 24 · score 3 · 1 comment
12. DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec): Sandbox Infrastructure for Effective Agentic Training at Scale — Lobste.rs (#vibecoding) · Sep 23 · score 3 · 0 comments

Themes

What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 476 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes):

• Models — 69% of its stories
• Agents — 31% of its stories
• Usage & adoption — 21% of its stories
• Companies & business — 19% of its stories
• Protocols & infra — 16% of its stories
• Security & safety — 11% of its stories

Related topics

Part of

Open-weight models

Competes with

Qwen, Kimi, GLM, Hunyuan

Mentioned with

OpenCode (61 stories), OpenRouter (50 stories), MiniMax (27 stories), MiMo (26 stories), Muse Spark (15 stories), MiMo-V2.6 (12 stories)

Hype score, last 30 days

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