--- title: "DeepSeek — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/deepseek as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # DeepSeek (🧠 Models) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › DeepSeek 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](https://abovethefog.app/topics/open_weights.md) - **Official site:** [deepseek.com](https://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. | Source | Metric | Latest | Normal | × normal | Above normal | Share of score | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) | frontpage hours | 18.1 | 0 | — | yes | 100% | | Cerebral Valley (AI events) | events | 1 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Luma (SF AI events) | events | 1 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) | items | 2 | 1.9 | 1.1× | no | 0% | | Bluesky | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | 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. [deepseek-v4.1-flash-max enters the text Arena leaderboard at #35](https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text) — 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.](https://github.com/yetone/magpie) — GitHub (yetone) · Sep 23 · score 1,576 3. [The World On DeepSeek Right Now](https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepSeek/comments/1wp3ci4/) — Reddit (r/DeepSeek) · Sep 24 · score 594 · 84 comments 4. [DeepSeek Elastic Compute \(DSec\)](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859112) — Hacker News (arxiv.org) · Sep 26 · score 322 · 110 comments 5. [DeepSeek Elastic Compute \(DSec\)](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859112) — 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](https://luma.com/yficwuy6) — 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](https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-xiaomi-mimo-v26-pro-1t-a42b) — 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](https://www.techmeme.com/260922/p15#a260922p15) — Techmeme (The Information) · Sep 22 · score 2 · 5 comments 9. [Can DeepSeek 4.1 Flash Replace Your $20 Coding Subscription?](https://dev.to/jagostoni/can-deepseek-41-flash-replace-your-20-coding-subscription-4fg5) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 27 · score 0 · 3 comments 10. [SplitMOE- similar to deepseek-MOE \`same same but different\`](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/splitmoe-similar-to-deepseek-moe-same-same-but-different/180682) — 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…](https://mstdn.social/@JorisMeys/117325074139906855) — Mastodon (fediverse) (mstdn.social) · Sep 24 · score 3 · 1 comment 12. [DeepSeek Elastic Compute \(DSec\): Sandbox Infrastructure for Effective Agentic Training at Scale](https://lobste.rs/s/3hbty3/deepseek_elastic_compute_dsec_sandbox) — 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](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 69% of its stories - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 31% of its stories - [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 21% of its stories - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 19% of its stories - [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 16% of its stories - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 11% of its stories ## Related topics - **Part of:** [Open-weight models](https://abovethefog.app/topics/open_weights.md) - **Competes with:** [Qwen](https://abovethefog.app/topics/qwen.md), [Kimi](https://abovethefog.app/topics/kimi.md), [GLM](https://abovethefog.app/topics/glm.md), [Hunyuan](https://abovethefog.app/topics/hunyuan.md) - **Mentioned with:** [OpenCode](https://abovethefog.app/topics/opencode.md) (61 stories), [OpenRouter](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openrouter.md) (50 stories), [MiniMax](https://abovethefog.app/topics/minimax.md) (27 stories), [MiMo](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mimo.md) (26 stories), [Muse Spark](https://abovethefog.app/topics/muse_spark.md) (15 stories), [MiMo-V2.6](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mimo_v2_6.md) (12 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 12.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 26, 2026 | 2.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 25, 2026 | 1.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 24, 2026 | 7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 23, 2026 | 13.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 22, 2026 | 6.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 21, 2026 | 7.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 20, 2026 | 3.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 1.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 18, 2026 | 20.5 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 17, 2026 | 30.7 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 16, 2026 | 49.8 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 15, 2026 | 31.5 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 14, 2026 | 49.3 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 13, 2026 | 13.6 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 12, 2026 | 23.7 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 11, 2026 | 46.6 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 10, 2026 | 74 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 9, 2026 | 49.4 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 8, 2026 | 5.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 0.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 4, 2026 | 0.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 3, 2026 | 1.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 2, 2026 | 4.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 1, 2026 | 1.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 0.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 2.1 | 💤 Quiet | [Open DeepSeek in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=deepseek) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/deepseek) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)