--- title: "Grok — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # Grok (🧠 Models) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › Grok Grok is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 2 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. Its last hype episode in the 30-day window ran from Sep 21 to Sep 22 (peak 57 on Sep 22). Grok, SpaceXAI's (formerly xAI) family of models and chatbot, integrated into X. First seen on Wikipedia · Sep 14 — 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:** 2 / 100 · −8.7 in 1 day · −0.1 in 7 days - **In hype since:** not in hype now - **Peak, 30 days:** 57.3 on Sep 22, 2026 - **Category:** 🧠 Models - **Made by:** [SpaceXAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/spacexai.md) - **Official site:** [grok.com](https://grok.com) - **Sources above normal:** 0 of 26 scoring it (0 independent families) - **Stories in 7 days:** 930 - **Share of voice:** 1.6% 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 | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | Mastodon (fediverse) | tag uses | 8 | 5 | 1.5× | no | 57% | | Reddit | posts | 62 | 57 | 1.1× | no | 42% | | Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) | items | 3 | 1.9 | 1.4× | no | 1.5% | | Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | items | 16 | 15.2 | 1.1× | no | 0% | | Bluesky | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Cerebral Valley (AI events) | events | 1 (Sep 26) | 1 | 1× | 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. [grok-4.7-xhigh enters the text Arena leaderboard at #148](https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text) — LMArena (leaderboard) (xai) · Sep 25 · score 4,114 2. [Elon Musk admits Grok isn’t as good as Anthropic’s Claude](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wqzu96/) — Reddit (r/ClaudeAI) · Sep 26 · score 730 · 124 comments 3. [AI #187: Coming Into Play](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-187-coming-into-play) — AI newsletters (RSS) (Zvi) · Sep 24 · score 56 · 39 comments 4. [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 5. [Cookies & Careers with SpaceXAI Engineering 🍪](https://luma.com/rh46cluu) — Luma (SF AI events) (Nithya Appannagaari) · score 40 6. [MiMo-V2.6-Pro ties Grok 4.7 \(xHigh\) and beats GLM-5.3 \(Max\) on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, making it the benchmark's top-scoring open-weight model](https://www.techmeme.com/260921/p56#a260921p56) — Techmeme (VentureBeat) · Sep 22 · score 2 · 8 comments 7. [blixvip/html-anime: Prompt an anime. A shot-sheet harness and skills so Claude, Codex, Cursor, or Grok can draw it in code.](https://github.com/blixvip/html-anime) — GitHub (blixvip) · Sep 27 · score 15 8. [Grok Bot: multi-GB review video undeliverable; still+AAC goes silent in QuickTime](https://forum.cursor.com/t/grok-bot-multi-gb-review-video-undeliverable-still-aac-goes-silent-in-quicktime/172600) — Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) (Cursor Forum) · Sep 22 · score 0 · 7 comments 9. [Errand – open-source Grok Bot and Muse alternative, built in a week](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803044) — Hacker News (runta.com) · Sep 22 · score 4 · 2 comments 10. [Grok 4.7: The Model Is Weak, the Driveway Is the Moat](https://dev.to/max_quimby/grok-47-the-model-is-weak-the-driveway-is-the-moat-2n2h) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 24 · score 2 · 1 comment 11. [Grok 4.7 pairs coding gains with the same affordable pricing — but high token consumption threatens real-world ROI](https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi4AFBVV95cUxQeUZwSlRrRE9PZHp4QlUxemlQekZzelhmYm9Vd1h6VG1CSC1mSEpEUkdxUFdweF9BZTQ0amJIc290X2NfSWdoRWlsSVlOOEY3ZV94SGpKME5SeFhWZWt3VmNpRExhMlFUSlktSzRsdENpS1RFMXJWQmRGVW04cDhRZGljdlV5cVRaRG51Q3lqbnRZZ3lTSmtkU2QzZGZ6aU5SYk9iQzFKdEp1VWRhTV9JWHFiRHNDclVTcURVS2ZkNjBNU3EzREJvbDFKNjlzaHFmLTlYNFNsVjgtYWlNVmtnUQ?oc=5) — Tech press (RSS) (venturebeat.com) · Sep 21 12. [Founder-led Sales Night - Grok Bot x Stage2 Capital](https://partiful.com/e/nu8YJ4BILlhMZjmD3pbF) — Cerebral Valley (AI events) (San Francisco, CA) ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 605 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) — 61% of its stories - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 50% of its stories - [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 15% of its stories - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 9.3% of its stories - [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 6.5% of its stories - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 5% of its stories Payment rails its stories name: - [Stablecoins / crypto](https://abovethefog.app/themes/stablecoins_crypto.md) — 1 story ## Related topics - **Competes with:** [ChatGPT](https://abovethefog.app/topics/chatgpt.md), [Claude](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude.md), [Gemini](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gemini.md), [GPT-6 Astra](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gpt6.md) - **Made by:** [SpaceXAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/spacexai.md) - **Related to:** [Grok Bot](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok_bot.md), [Grok Build](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok_build.md) - **Mentioned with:** [Cursor](https://abovethefog.app/topics/cursor.md) (225 stories), [Elon Musk](https://abovethefog.app/topics/elon_musk.md) (59 stories), [Kimi](https://abovethefog.app/topics/kimi.md) (22 stories), [Sora](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sora.md) (3 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 26, 2026 | 10.7 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 25, 2026 | 2.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 24, 2026 | 13.1 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 23, 2026 | 15.4 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 22, 2026 | 57.3 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 21, 2026 | 40.9 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 20, 2026 | 2.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 2.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 18, 2026 | 4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 17, 2026 | 14.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 16, 2026 | 4.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 15, 2026 | 7.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 14, 2026 | 13 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 13, 2026 | 4.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 12, 2026 | 2.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 11, 2026 | 14.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 10, 2026 | 13.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 9, 2026 | 15.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 8, 2026 | 11.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 2.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 0.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 4, 2026 | 15.4 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 3, 2026 | 36.8 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 2, 2026 | 12.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 1, 2026 | 4.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 4.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | [Open Grok in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=grok) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)