--- title: "Jensen Huang — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/jensen_huang as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # Jensen Huang (👤 People) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › Jensen Huang Jensen Huang is 🔥 Hot on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 36 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 7 points lower than 7 days before. It has been in hype for 8 days, since Sep 20, and peaked at 53 on Sep 25. Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia. First seen on Techmeme · Sep 17 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the run-up to this hype episode. Why this stage: in hype for 8 days; 36 vs peak 53 on Sep 25. - **Stage:** 🔥 Hot — in hype and holding up - **Hype score:** 35.8 / 100 · −1.3 in 1 day · −6.6 in 7 days - **In hype since:** Sep 20, 2026 (8 days) - **Peak, 30 days:** 52.7 on Sep 25, 2026 - **Category:** 👤 People - **Sources above normal:** 2 of 25 scoring it (2 independent families) - **Stories in 7 days:** 160 - **Share of voice:** 0.9% 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 | 7,415 | 3,959 | 1.9× | yes | 51% | | Google Trends (search interest) | search interest | 18.7 (Sep 25) | 3.4 | 4.5× | yes | 49% | | Reddit | posts | 1 | 0 | — | 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% | | DEV Community (dev.to) | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | GitHub Trending | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | ## Stories behind it 1. [jensen huang wealth tax comments](https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=jensen+huang+wealth+tax+comments&geo=US&date=now%207-d) — Google Trends (Trending now) (Google Trends US) · Sep 22 · score 5,000 2. [Jensen Huang: "We all need to hope it's an engineering problem. If it's not an engineering problem, it's not solvable."](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mwlcvgybkh2g) — Bluesky · Sep 28 · score 2,104 · 362 comments 3. [NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang: “Now, if they say \[that their models aren’t safe\] … then I think the answer is that we have to shut the labs down.”](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/comments/1wogbfs/) — Reddit (r/Anthropic) · Sep 23 · score 419 · 144 comments 4. [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 5. [Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.'](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879032) — Hacker News (cnbc.com) · Sep 28 · score 72 · 77 comments 6. [Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.'](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879032) — HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) (cnbc.com) · Sep 28 · score 72 · 77 comments 7. [Jensen Huang talks about AI and climate change like a supervillain](https://www.theverge.com/tech/1000140/jensen-huang-nvidia-ai-energy-climate-change-supervillain) — Mastodon (fediverse) (The Verge) · Sep 24 · score 94 8. [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 9. [A tech bros proud of the fact he doesn't know where he lives, the women is his life manage that. Misogynistic losers who can't even find their own house, and world leaders are in thrall to them? http…](https://mastodon.social/@Lazarou/117332009943288858) — Mastodon (fediverse) (mastodon.social) · Sep 25 · score 15 · 3 comments 10. [To paraphrase Tom Wolfe, we are witnesses one of the great unexplained phenomena of modern astronomy: namely that the dark night of AI-Job-Replacement is always descending on the humanities and yet l…](https://bsky.app/profile/bretdevereaux.bsky.social/post/3mwc6adcfbs2i) — Bluesky · Sep 24 · score 723 · 14 comments 11. [NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang: “Now, if they say \[that their models aren’t safe\] … then I think the answer is that we have to shut the labs down.”](https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1wogcgf/) — Reddit (r/ChatGPT) · Sep 23 · score 332 · 89 comments 12. [@davidho What he says is not only "Marvel supervillain", it's pure fascist #TESCREAL death-cult. Unfortuntely, the article remains with comic metaphors instead of naming loud enough the fascism behin…](https://mastodon.online/@NatureMC/117331406209914010) — Mastodon (fediverse) (mastodon.online) · Sep 25 · score 9 · 0 comments ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 139 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes): - [Policy & macro](https://abovethefog.app/themes/policy_macro.md) — 78% of its stories - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 65% of its stories - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 36% of its stories - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 9.3% of its stories - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 1.4% of its stories - [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 1.4% of its stories ## Related topics - **Mentioned with:** [Sam Altman](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sam_altman.md) (33 stories), [Dario Amodei](https://abovethefog.app/topics/dario_amodei.md) (32 stories), [Mark Zuckerberg](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mark_zuckerberg.md) (30 stories), [AI regulation](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_regulation.md) (16 stories), [Demis Hassabis](https://abovethefog.app/topics/demis_hassabis.md) (11 stories), [AI bubble - capex](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_bubble.md) (7 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 35.8 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 26, 2026 | 37.1 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 25, 2026 | 52.7 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 24, 2026 | 44.4 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 23, 2026 | 45.4 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 22, 2026 | 34.4 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 21, 2026 | 24.2 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 20, 2026 | 42.4 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 19, 2026 | 13.5 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 18, 2026 | 20.8 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 17, 2026 | 48.4 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 16, 2026 | 51.6 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 15, 2026 | 49 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 14, 2026 | 30.6 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 13, 2026 | 15.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 12, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 11, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 10, 2026 | 9.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 9, 2026 | 0.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 8, 2026 | 4.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 14.9 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 6, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 1.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 4, 2026 | 12.1 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 3, 2026 | 31.5 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 2, 2026 | 3.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 1, 2026 | 12.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 4.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 3.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 11.9 | 🧊 Cooling | [Open Jensen Huang in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=jensen_huang) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/jensen_huang) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)