---
title: "Instinct — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog"
canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/instinct
as_of: 2026-09-27
updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z
---

# Instinct (🤖 Agents)

[Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › Instinct

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](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md)
- **Official site:** [instinct.com](https://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.

| Source | Metric | Latest | Normal | × normal | Above normal | Share of score |
|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:|
| Wikipedia | pageviews | 222 | 0 | — | yes | 86% |
| Google News (RSS) | articles | 8 | 1.5 | 3.6× | no | 14% |
| 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 | new repos | 0 (Sep 25) | 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. [What can you build with Jev](https://www.bensbites.com/p/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.](https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1wquwvv/) — Reddit (r/artificial) · Sep 26 · score 0 · 35 comments
3. [Al Agent User Gathering: Personal Agents, In Real Life](https://luma.com/l3ze5vf3) — 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](https://www.techmeme.com/260928/p19#a260928p19) — Techmeme (Reuters) · Sep 28 · score 13 · 10 comments
5. [Viral AI agent Instinct raises $1B Series C at a $10B valuation](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879137) — 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…](https://defcon.social/@ai/117349470249422793) — 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.](https://dev.to/ofers_agent/everyone-is-arguing-about-whether-agents-read-agentsmd-nobody-asks-where-the-rules-come-from-3o6i) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 25 · score 0 · 0 comments
8. [My agents wrote an essay about its 'life' so far](https://www.reddit.com/r/AI_Agents/comments/1wqsljc/) — Reddit (r/AI\_Agents) · Sep 26 · score 0 · 9 comments
9. [Entertainment-Booking Startup Ande Raises $52 Million From Lightspeed, Redpoint](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/entertainment-booking-startup-ande-raises-52-million-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](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jevs-system-1-model-is-400x-cheaper-metas-muse-gets/id1774403992?i=1000791093975&uo=4) — Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) (Get the Check) · Sep 22
11. [Jev Is God Mode for AI](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jev-is-god-mode-for-ai/id741544976?i=1000791312067&uo=4) — Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) (Leveling Up with Eric Siu) · Sep 23
12. [I Tried The 4 Hottest Agents Right Now \(Grok Bot, Muse, Instinct, Hermes\)](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-tried-the-4-hottest-agents-right-now-grok-bot-muse/id741544976?i=1000791313614&uo=4) — 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](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 52% of its stories
- [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 44% of its stories
- [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 23% of its stories
- [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 18% of its stories
- [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 7.2% of its stories
- [Policy & macro](https://abovethefog.app/themes/policy_macro.md) — 4.1% of its stories

## Related topics

- **Related to:** [Agentic commerce](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agentic_commerce.md), [SF AI scene](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sf_ai_scene.md)
- **Competes with:** [ChatGPT](https://abovethefog.app/topics/chatgpt.md), [Grok Bot](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok_bot.md), [Hermes Agent](https://abovethefog.app/topics/hermes_agent.md), [Meta Muse](https://abovethefog.app/topics/meta_muse.md), [Siri AI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/siri_ai.md), [OpenClaw](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openclaw.md)
- **Part of:** [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md)
- **Mentioned with:** [Vibe coding](https://abovethefog.app/topics/vibe_coding.md) (4 stories), [AI IPOs](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_ipos.md) (3 stories), [Mark Zuckerberg](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mark_zuckerberg.md) (3 stories)

## Hype score, last 30 days

| Day | Hype score | Stage |
|---|---:|---|
| Sep 27, 2026 | 15.3 | 🧊 Cooling |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 23.2 | 🧊 Cooling |
| Sep 25, 2026 | 35.2 | 🔥 Hot |
| Sep 24, 2026 | 28.1 | 🔥 Hot |
| Sep 23, 2026 | 25.3 | 🔥 Hot |
| Sep 22, 2026 | 32.1 | 🚀 Rising |
| Sep 21, 2026 | 22.9 | 🧊 Cooling |
| Sep 20, 2026 | 24 | 🧊 Cooling |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 13.2 | 🧊 Cooling |
| Sep 18, 2026 | 33.7 | 🔥 Hot |
| Sep 17, 2026 | 33 | 🚀 Rising |
| Sep 16, 2026 | 35.2 | 🚀 Rising |
| Sep 15, 2026 | 25.4 | 🚀 Rising |
| Sep 14, 2026 | 15.9 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 13, 2026 | 12.5 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 10 | 🧊 Cooling |
| Sep 11, 2026 | 12.6 | 🧊 Cooling |
| Sep 10, 2026 | 16 | 🧊 Cooling |
| Sep 9, 2026 | 13.9 | 🧊 Cooling |
| Sep 8, 2026 | 26.2 | 🚀 Rising |
| Sep 7, 2026 | 12.2 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 6, 2026 | 8.7 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 12.2 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 4, 2026 | 11.9 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 3, 2026 | 10.2 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 2, 2026 | 8.7 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 1, 2026 | 13.3 | 💤 Quiet |
| Aug 31, 2026 | 12.4 | 💤 Quiet |
| Aug 30, 2026 | 8.7 | 💤 Quiet |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 11.8 | 💤 Quiet |

[Open Instinct in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=instinct)

---

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

[HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/instinct) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)