--- title: "Elon Musk — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/elon_musk as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # Elon Musk (👤 People) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › Elon Musk Elon Musk is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 1 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 1 point 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 10 to Sep 14 (peak 46 on Sep 14). Elon Musk, owner of SpaceX/SpaceXAI (Grok, Cursor) and CEO of Tesla. First seen on Reddit · 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:** 1.4 / 100 · −4.5 in 1 day · +1.4 in 7 days - **In hype since:** not in hype now - **Peak, 30 days:** 46.2 on Sep 14, 2026 - **Category:** 👤 People - **Sources above normal:** 0 of 24 scoring it (0 independent families) - **Stories in 7 days:** 278 - **Share of voice:** 1.4% 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 | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | Bluesky | trending | 0.2 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 40% | | Mastodon (fediverse) | tag uses | 64 | 52 | 1.2× | no | 40% | | Wikipedia | pageviews | 16,251 | 16,033 | 1× | no | 20% | | Reddit | posts | 3 | 2 | 1.3× | no | 0% | | Cerebral Valley (AI events) | events | 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. [UPDATE: All recent polls have Talarico ahead of Paxton in the #Texas U.S. Senate race We're tracking all major polls in the U.S. Senate race to give Texans a fuller picture of where this race is head…](https://bsky.app/profile/whodat35.bsky.social/post/3mw54v4gjkk2v) — Bluesky (texastribune.org) · Sep 22 · score 6,306 · 310 comments 2. [Elon Musk: xAI Will Keep Accelerating And Will Surpass Anthropic And OpenAI Within 6 Months](https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1wp9xji/) — Reddit (r/singularity) · Sep 24 · score 371 · 510 comments 3. [The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ \(Exclusive\)](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/elon-musk-documentary-trailer-rejected-tiktok-youtube-1236710259/) — Mastodon (fediverse) (The Hollywood Reporter) · Sep 25 · score 1,181 4. [Musk, the Movie](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872766) — HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) (bleeckerstreetmedia.com) · Sep 28 · score 185 · 140 comments 5. [On Ezra Klein’s Podcast With Jensen Huang](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/on-ezra-kleins-podcast-with-jensen) — AI newsletters (RSS) (Zvi) · Sep 25 · score 135 · 50 comments 6. [Sources: YouTube, TikTok, and Meta's Instagram and Facebook declined to run paid ads for Alex Gibney's Musk documentary, citing “political content”](https://www.techmeme.com/260926/p12#a260926p12) — Techmeme (The Hollywood Reporter) · Sep 26 · score 9 · 23 comments 7. [Elon Musk Film Hit with Censorship](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868677) — Hacker News (thedailybeast.com) · Sep 27 · score 28 · 3 comments 8. [A 4-hour Elon Musk doc, a Gaza controversy and the movies to see at Mill Valley Film Festival](https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMinwFBVV95cUxPeWNmcEdFUEp0QWxRS05LcmpUUW9uRWJPNVVaZElmYV9SaW56enhBbTdvcjlfV1g3eUF1ZzhzbThxUDRHVnZRVGNqTC1KVmxOU2tMZEJRdEtyU1M2QW0yZEJzV0NqUGpQWHRZUWl2UXRieFAycDV0dEtWbTNzQkMydG1TTk1QWGNHcHdiY3pXc2R5MVI5OW01M3gzMW1NZzg?oc=5) — SF local press (RSS) (San Francisco Chronicle) · Sep 25 9. [Watch this trailer and you will be waiting with bated breath for the October 16th opening \(the day after which is a #NoKings Day of Action\). There is a reason the cowards/alleged champions of free sp…](https://zirk.us/@CindyWeinstein/117338143483347137) — Mastodon (fediverse) (zirk.us) · Sep 26 · score 58 · 1 comment 10. [Look at all the Texans that showed up AGAINST Ken Paxton! 😂😂](https://bsky.app/profile/krisbouncedx.bsky.social/post/3mw5we3l5is24) — Bluesky · Sep 23 · score 4,530 · 132 comments 11. [Yes, the fascists are gonna fash… But I naively wasn’t expecting it to be done in such an ugly, stupid, straight up criminal way. Silly me. Assuming this is what happens when #Musk ‘s Grok is tasked…](https://mstdn.social/@JugglingWithEggs/117315705421531809) — Mastodon (fediverse) (mstdn.social) · Sep 22 · score 35 · 4 comments 12. [Watch the New Trailer for the Explosive Documentary on Elon Musk](https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-documentary-movie-trailer-2000816878) — Mastodon (fediverse) (Gizmodo) · Sep 24 · score 35 ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 117 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) — 49% of its stories - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 45% of its stories - [Policy & macro](https://abovethefog.app/themes/policy_macro.md) — 29% of its stories - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 17% of its stories - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 10% of its stories - Other AI — 1.7% of its stories ## Related topics - **Mentioned with:** [Sam Altman](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sam_altman.md) (93 stories), [Dario Amodei](https://abovethefog.app/topics/dario_amodei.md) (78 stories), [Grok](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok.md) (59 stories), [Mark Zuckerberg](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mark_zuckerberg.md) (40 stories), [Demis Hassabis](https://abovethefog.app/topics/demis_hassabis.md) (26 stories), [Safe Superintelligence](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ssi.md) (3 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 1.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 26, 2026 | 5.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 25, 2026 | 2.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 24, 2026 | 1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 23, 2026 | 0.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 22, 2026 | 4.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 21, 2026 | 0.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 20, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 2.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 18, 2026 | 2.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 17, 2026 | 4.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 16, 2026 | 8.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 15, 2026 | 16.8 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 14, 2026 | 46.2 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 13, 2026 | 27.7 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 12, 2026 | 32.6 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 11, 2026 | 32.2 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 10, 2026 | 34.7 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 9, 2026 | 24.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 8, 2026 | 18 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 2.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 3.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 1.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 4, 2026 | 2.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 3, 2026 | 12.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 2, 2026 | 2.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 1, 2026 | 3.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 1.2 | 💤 Quiet | [Open Elon Musk in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=elon_musk) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/elon_musk) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)