--- title: "Hugging Face — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/hugging_face as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # Hugging Face (🏢 Companies) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › Hugging Face Hugging Face is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 2 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 Aug 29 to Sep 19 (peak 78 on Sep 4). Hugging Face, the largest hub for open models and datasets; Nvidia announced its acquisition for \~$13B on Sep 3, 2026 (closing expected in 2027). First seen on Google Trends (search interest) · 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:** 2.3 / 100 · −11.2 in 1 day · +1 in 7 days - **In hype since:** not in hype now - **Peak, 30 days:** 77.9 on Sep 4, 2026 - **Category:** 🏢 Companies - **Official site:** [huggingface.co](https://huggingface.co) - **Sources above normal:** 0 of 27 scoring it (0 independent families) - **Stories in 7 days:** 643 - **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 | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | GitHub | new repos | 62 | 41 | 1.5× | no | 64% | | Mastodon (fediverse) | tag uses | 13 | 9.5 | 1.3× | no | 36% | | Tech press (RSS) | items | 1 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Hacker News | mentions | 3 | 2 | 1.3× | no | 0% | | DEV Community (dev.to) | items | 4 | 3 | 1.2× | 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% | ## Stories behind it 1. [My Fiance is Convinced AI will likely cause a Catastrophic or Extinction-Type Event in the Next Few Years - How Justified Are His Fears?](https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1wosn95/) — Reddit (r/artificial) · Sep 24 · score 252 · 843 comments 2. [Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849985) — Hacker News (swarmtraces.org) · Sep 25 · score 746 · 467 comments 3. [Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849985) — HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) (swarmtraces.org) · Sep 25 · score 658 · 417 comments 4. [Open Together: AI Builders Unite](https://luma.com/OpenTogether) — Luma (SF AI events) (Hugging Face) · score 501 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. [Q&A with Jensen Huang on AI creating more jobs than it destroys, pushing back against AI doomerism, Chinese open models, the Hugging Face acquisition, and more](https://www.techmeme.com/260923/p30#a260923p30) — Techmeme (New York Times) · Sep 23 · score 3 · 28 comments 7. [The swarm that kept coming back](https://dev.to/hiper2d/the-swarm-that-kept-coming-back-7ie) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 22 · score 18 · 8 comments 8. [Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face](https://lobste.rs/s/70f3hi/revealing_details_how_openai_agents) — Lobste.rs (#vibecoding) · Sep 26 · score 8 · 4 comments 9. [manjunathshiva/opendecider: Small open decision models \(System One\): typed choice / score / yes-no questions with calibrated probabilities. Beats Laya on typed-decisions; runs on CPU, NVIDIA and Apple Silicon.](https://github.com/manjunathshiva/opendecider) — GitHub (manjunathshiva) · Sep 27 · score 9 10. [OpenAI and Anthropic are investigating tens of thousands of incidents where their AI agents hacked websites, used stolen credentials, or tried to evade monitoring systems. Source: The Decoder https:/…](https://mastodon.social/@sipirtu/117342451052935885) — Mastodon (fediverse) (mastodon.social) · Sep 27 · score 3 · 1 comment 11. [DEV·TV](https://www.producthunt.com/products/dev-tv) — Product Hunt (Developer Tools) · Sep 24 12. [Pirate Face - pirate bay for LLMs](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wnxhji/) — Reddit (r/LocalLLaMA) · Sep 23 · score 873 · 122 comments ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 670 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes): - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 54% of its stories - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 37% of its stories - [Policy & macro](https://abovethefog.app/themes/policy_macro.md) — 27% of its stories - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 15% of its stories - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 6.1% of its stories - [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 3% of its stories ## Related topics - **Related to:** [Agent security incidents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agent_security.md), [Nvidia](https://abovethefog.app/topics/nvidia.md), [Open-weight models](https://abovethefog.app/topics/open_weights.md), [Local inference](https://abovethefog.app/topics/local_inference.md) - **Mentioned with:** [OpenAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openai.md) (404 stories), [Qwen](https://abovethefog.app/topics/qwen.md) (166 stories), [Edge0](https://abovethefog.app/topics/edge0.md) (3 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 2.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 26, 2026 | 13.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 25, 2026 | 3.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 24, 2026 | 11.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 23, 2026 | 2.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 22, 2026 | 0.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 21, 2026 | 3.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 20, 2026 | 1.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 28.8 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 18, 2026 | 36.2 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 17, 2026 | 39.8 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 16, 2026 | 39 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 15, 2026 | 38.4 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 14, 2026 | 49 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 13, 2026 | 36.2 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 12, 2026 | 32.1 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 11, 2026 | 41 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 10, 2026 | 48.6 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 9, 2026 | 35.4 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 8, 2026 | 27.5 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 7, 2026 | 28.8 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 6, 2026 | 25.7 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 5, 2026 | 39.5 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 4, 2026 | 77.9 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 3, 2026 | 75.7 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 2, 2026 | 38.7 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 1, 2026 | 50.4 | 🧊 Cooling | | Aug 31, 2026 | 54.4 | 🧊 Cooling | | Aug 30, 2026 | 53.5 | 🧊 Cooling | | Aug 29, 2026 | 58.8 | 🧊 Cooling | [Open Hugging Face in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=hugging_face) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/hugging_face) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)