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title: "Garry Tan — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog"
canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/garry_tan
as_of: 2026-09-27
updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z
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# Garry Tan (👤 People)

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Garry Tan is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 0 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, about the same as 7 days before. Its attention is within the normal range across the monitored sources.

Garry Tan, CEO of Y Combinator and an influential voice in SF politics; in Sep 2026 argued that US open-weight labs should 'distill' frontier models.

First seen on HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) · 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:** 0 / 100 · 0 in 1 day · 0 in 7 days
- **In hype since:** not in hype now
- **Peak, 30 days:** 18.5 on Sep 11, 2026
- **Category:** 👤 People
- **Sources above normal:** 0 of 23 scoring it (0 independent families)
- **Stories in 7 days:** 0
- **Share of voice:** 0% 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 (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% |
| Hacker News | mentions | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% |
| Hugging Face Daily Papers | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% |
| HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) | frontpage hours | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% |

## Stories behind it

No story is linked to this topic in the window.

## Related topics

- **Related to:** [SF AI scene](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sf_ai_scene.md), [Open-weight models](https://abovethefog.app/topics/open_weights.md)

## Hype score, last 30 days

| Day | Hype score | Stage |
|---|---:|---|
| Sep 27, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 25, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 24, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 23, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 22, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 21, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 20, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 18, 2026 | 1.3 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 17, 2026 | 1.8 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 16, 2026 | 1.2 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 15, 2026 | 1.4 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 14, 2026 | 3.1 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 13, 2026 | 12.4 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.2 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 11, 2026 | 18.5 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 10, 2026 | 2.3 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 9, 2026 | 0.8 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 8, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 7, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 6, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 4, 2026 | 1.1 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 3, 2026 | 1.2 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 2, 2026 | 2.4 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 1, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Aug 31, 2026 | 1.3 | 💤 Quiet |
| Aug 30, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |

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Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar

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