--- title: "Demis Hassabis — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/demis_hassabis as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # Demis Hassabis (👤 People) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › Demis Hassabis Demis Hassabis is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 4 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 9 points lower than 7 days before. Its attention is within the normal range across the monitored sources. Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind and 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry. 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:** 3.6 / 100 · +2.8 in 1 day · −9.2 in 7 days - **In hype since:** not in hype now - **Peak, 30 days:** 23.7 on Sep 15, 2026 - **Category:** 👤 People - **Sources above normal:** 0 of 25 scoring it (0 independent families) - **Stories in 7 days:** 12 - **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 | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | Wikipedia | pageviews | 1,965 | 1,628 | 1.2× | no | 100% | | Reddit | posts | 1 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | 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 | 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. [Did Demis Hassabis make the wrong bet in the AI race?](https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1wou11v/) — Reddit (r/singularity) · Sep 24 · score 77 · 63 comments 2. [Politics Gets Interested In Those Trying Not To Die](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/politics-gets-interested-in-those) — AI newsletters (RSS) (Zvi) · Sep 22 · score 82 · 17 comments 3. [Bloomberg: Google DeepMind Exodus Sparks VC Frenzy for AI’s Next Big Thing. This link goes to a gift article. “For years, Alphabet Inc.’s London research lab was a destination of choice for top AI re…](https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/26/bloomberg-google-deepmind-exodus-sparks-vc-frenzy-for-ais-next-big-thing/) — Mastodon (fediverse) (rbfirehose.com) · Sep 26 · score 1 · 0 comments 4. [AI’s “humble beginnings” to a tool for scientific discovery: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis at AI Impact Summit 2026](https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi2gFBVV95cUxOXy1lT2UxQnVCRHlQWXFfc0VFaVUzVkUtbXJHOURqXzVkdTU3TTFCNVRoMzFLa0kwbFRObW05OFduaVhZNVNjQVNMM2lSWXQtenhwb3lpRDh6bjRZY29ZSGNMQXMxQ0hHV3NkbTVlUjM4VGsxZXY0OEFnQXpVbjlqcElnV3BvM1Fnbmc5akVxUC1LcGFHVmZlRUlKeWdNcUw0cTM5MnQ2blRZeVFlM2JFLTMybmtzN1VMSksxX09SbTlxa0piY0k4eXB6RWZFRDkyd2YzVzNMa240QQ?oc=5) — Google News (RSS) (DD News) · Sep 24 5. [An AI@GSB Special: Demis Hassabis Thinks We’re in the ‘Foothills of the Singularity’](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/an-ai-gsb-special-demis-hassabis-thinks-were-in/id1725380194?i=1000791237150&uo=4) — Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) (If/Then) · Sep 23 6. [Decoding the AI Slowdown: What It Actually Means for Your Business Strategy](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/decoding-the-ai-slowdown-what-it-actually-means-for/id1788998405?i=1000791263144&uo=4) — Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) (AI First with Adam and Andy) · Sep 23 7. [Demis Hassabis: Solving the Future \(5+ Hour Biography\)](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/demis-hassabis-solving-the-future-5-hour-biography/id1833127242?i=1000791748291&uo=4) — Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) (Bedtime Biographies for Sleepy Time) · Sep 26 8. [Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, Andrew Ng, Fei-Fei Li, Demis Hassabis, Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Dario Amodei, Jensen Huang, Sebastian Thrun, Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Ray Kurzweil, Elon Musk publishes a joint paper on growing cannabis \[D\]](https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1wq2bec/) — Reddit (r/MachineLearning) · Sep 25 9. [I think Gemini search engine ai is probably the best ai when it comes to expressing its opinion](https://www.reddit.com/r/GeminiAI/comments/1wq9nto/) — Reddit (r/GeminiAI) · Sep 25 10. [How Google lost its AI lead in 7 months \(and why 1B users is hiding a massive problem\)](https://www.reddit.com/r/GeminiAI/comments/1wrpcez/) — Reddit (r/GeminiAI) · Sep 27 ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 7 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) — 43% of its stories - [Policy & macro](https://abovethefog.app/themes/policy_macro.md) — 43% of its stories - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 29% of its stories - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 29% of its stories - Other AI — 14% of its stories ## Related topics - **Mentioned with:** [Anthropic](https://abovethefog.app/topics/anthropic.md) (33 stories), [Sam Altman](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sam_altman.md) (29 stories), [Elon Musk](https://abovethefog.app/topics/elon_musk.md) (26 stories), [Dario Amodei](https://abovethefog.app/topics/dario_amodei.md) (25 stories), [AI slowdown](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_slowdown.md) (17 stories), [AGI - superintelligence](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agi.md) (13 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 3.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 26, 2026 | 0.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 25, 2026 | 4.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 24, 2026 | 10.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 23, 2026 | 11.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 22, 2026 | 11.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 21, 2026 | 11.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 20, 2026 | 12.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 13.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 18, 2026 | 16.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 17, 2026 | 21.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 16, 2026 | 19.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 15, 2026 | 23.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 14, 2026 | 19.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 13, 2026 | 17.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 12, 2026 | 17.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 11, 2026 | 13.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 10, 2026 | 11.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 9, 2026 | 10.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 8, 2026 | 3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 1.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 8.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 8.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 4, 2026 | 1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 3, 2026 | 2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 2, 2026 | 1.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 1, 2026 | 1.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | [Open Demis Hassabis in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=demis_hassabis) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/demis_hassabis) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)