Instinct 🤖 Agents

Instinct is 🧊 Cooling on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 15 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 9 points lower than 7 days before. Its last hype episode ran from Sep 22 to Sep 25 and peaked at 35 on Sep 25.

Instinct: an invite-only personal AI agent from SF's Spear Street Technology: you text or call and it acts for you; negotiating a round at a $1B to ~$10B valuation (Sep 2026).

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: left the hype 2 days ago; peak 35 on Sep 25.

Stage

🧊 Cooling — past its peak, or just left the hype

Hype score

15.3 / 100 · −8 in 1 day · −8.8 in 7 days

In hype since

not in hype now

Peak, 30 days

35.2 on Sep 25, 2026

Category

🤖 Agents

Part of

AI agents

Official site

instinct.com

Sources above normal

1 of 25 scoring it (1 independent family)

Stories in 7 days

93

Share of voice

0.2% 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.

Stories behind it

1. What can you build with Jev — AI newsletters (RSS) (Ben's Bites) · Sep 22 · score 73 · 0 comments
2. 3.4 million people just handed Meta an agent with the keys to their inbox, calendar and bank. I'm building the version that never leaves the phone. — Reddit (r/artificial) · Sep 26 · score 0 · 35 comments
3. Al Agent User Gathering: Personal Agents, In Real Life — Luma (SF AI events) (Cheryl (Xuan) Yang) · score 44
4. AI agent startup Instinct raised a $1B Series C from Sequoia, Benchmark, and Coatue at a $10B valuation and details recent products, such as a concierge service — Techmeme (Reuters) · Sep 28 · score 13 · 10 comments
5. Viral AI agent Instinct raises $1B Series C at a $10B valuation — Hacker News (techcrunch.com) · Sep 28 · score 2 · 0 comments
6. AI agent startup Instinct has raised 1B USD in Series C funding at a 10B USD valuation, becoming one of the most valuable AI agent companies to date. The viral AI agent focuses on productivity and au… — Mastodon (fediverse) (defcon.social) · Sep 28 · score 1 · 0 comments
7. Everyone is arguing about whether agents read AGENTS.md. Nobody asks where the rules come from. — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 25 · score 0 · 0 comments
8. My agents wrote an essay about its 'life' so far — Reddit (r/AI_Agents) · Sep 26 · score 0 · 9 comments
9. Entertainment-Booking Startup Ande Raises $52 Million From Lightspeed, Redpoint — Tech press (RSS) (The Information) · Sep 22
10. Jev's System 1 model is 400x cheaper, Meta's Muse gets 900K downloads in a week, Snap's Spec — Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) (Get the Check) · Sep 22
11. Jev Is God Mode for AI — Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) (Leveling Up with Eric Siu) · Sep 23
12. I Tried The 4 Hottest Agents Right Now (Grok Bot, Muse, Instinct, Hermes) — Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) (Leveling Up with Eric Siu) · Sep 23

Themes

What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 97 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes):

• Companies & business — 52% of its stories
• Agents — 44% of its stories
• Usage & adoption — 23% of its stories
• Models — 18% of its stories
• Security & safety — 7.2% of its stories
• Policy & macro — 4.1% of its stories

Related topics

Related to

Agentic commerce, SF AI scene

Competes with

ChatGPT, Grok Bot, Hermes Agent, Meta Muse, Siri AI, OpenClaw

Part of

AI agents

Mentioned with

Vibe coding (4 stories), AI IPOs (3 stories), Mark Zuckerberg (3 stories)

Hype score, last 30 days

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