--- title: "Kimi — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/kimi as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # Kimi (🧠 Models) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › Kimi Kimi is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 0 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 2 points lower 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 Sep 14 to Sep 14 (peak 32 on Sep 14). Kimi models (K2, K3) from Chinese startup Moonshot AI; open-weight, strong at code and agents. First seen on Google News (RSS) · 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:** 0 / 100 · 0 in 1 day · −1.9 in 7 days - **In hype since:** not in hype now - **Peak, 30 days:** 32 on Sep 14, 2026 - **Category:** 🧠 Models - **Part of:** [Open-weight models](https://abovethefog.app/topics/open_weights.md) - **Official site:** [kimi.com](https://kimi.com) - **Sources above normal:** 0 of 26 scoring it (0 independent families) - **Stories in 7 days:** 90 - **Share of voice:** 0.3% 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 | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | Hacker News | mentions | 1 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Mastodon (fediverse) | tag uses | 2 | 1 | 1.5× | no | 0% | | Reddit | posts | 8 | 7 | 1.1× | 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% | | GitHub Trending | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Google Trends (Trending now) | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | ## Stories behind it 1. [yetone/magpie: Every agent's model. One place. Codex on DeepSeek, Claude Code on Kimi, from the menu bar.](https://github.com/yetone/magpie) — GitHub (yetone) · Sep 23 · score 1,576 2. [DeepSeek and Moonshot AI face Beijing's probe over potential data leaks to Anthropic](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wnv85k/) — Reddit (r/LocalLLaMA) · Sep 23 · score 307 · 92 comments 3. [The Chinese AI Infrastructure Boom: Introducing the SemiAnalysis China Datacenter Model](https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/the-chinese-ai-infrastructure-boom) — AI newsletters (RSS) (SemiAnalysis) · Sep 25 · score 126 · 0 comments 4. [Show HN: Training a model to identify AI web content from structure alone](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49800566) — Hacker News (arxiv.org) · Sep 22 · score 73 · 26 comments 5. [Complex KDA: Understanding and Enhancing the Expressivity of Kimi Delta Attention](https://huggingface.co/papers/2609.24797) — Hugging Face Daily Papers (hf-papers) · Sep 22 · score 11 · 2 comments 6. [Sources: the Cyberspace Administration of China is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot over alleged data leaks to Anthropic via Claude and has questioned staff](https://www.techmeme.com/260922/p15#a260922p15) — Techmeme (The Information) · Sep 22 · score 2 · 5 comments 7. [We Got 91% With Kimi. Repeatable 91% Is the Hard Part.](https://dev.to/robimbeault/we-got-91-with-kimi-repeatable-91-is-the-hard-part-4bj7) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 24 · score 1 · 3 comments 8. [Messing with #openclaw but finding it easy to crash the gateway asking the agent to make config changes. Also, am I late to the party and should be using something different as my PA? kimi-k2.6 as LL…](https://fosstodon.org/@halfpint/117327518271860815) — Mastodon (fediverse) (fosstodon.org) · Sep 24 · score 1 · 1 comment 9. [China Probes DeepSeek, Moonshot Over Potential Data Leaks to Anthropic](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/china-probes-deepseek-moonshot-potential-data-leaks-anthropic) — Tech press (RSS) (The Information) · Sep 22 10. [SWE-Prometheus: Measuring Engineering Governance Improvements in Real-World Repositories](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.29465) — arXiv (cs.CL / cs.AI / cs.LG) (cs.AI) · Sep 24 11. [Apple just ran a 1T parameter model on four Mac Studios from one wall outlet](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLM/comments/1wnwdww/) — Reddit (r/LocalLLM) · Sep 23 · score 192 · 106 comments 12. [Vibe coding Minecraft: January this year vs. today](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wo08y5/) — Reddit (r/ClaudeAI) · Sep 23 · score 156 · 23 comments ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 89 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) — 66% of its stories - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 30% of its stories - [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 13% of its stories - [Policy & macro](https://abovethefog.app/themes/policy_macro.md) — 13% of its stories - [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 12% of its stories - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 12% of its stories ## Related topics - **Competes with:** [DeepSeek](https://abovethefog.app/topics/deepseek.md), [GLM](https://abovethefog.app/topics/glm.md), [Hunyuan](https://abovethefog.app/topics/hunyuan.md), [Qwen](https://abovethefog.app/topics/qwen.md) - **Part of:** [Open-weight models](https://abovethefog.app/topics/open_weights.md) - **Mentioned with:** [Claude](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude.md) (85 stories), [Gemini](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gemini.md) (29 stories), [MiniMax](https://abovethefog.app/topics/minimax.md) (22 stories), [Grok](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok.md) (22 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 26, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 25, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 24, 2026 | 1.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 23, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 22, 2026 | 3.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 21, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 20, 2026 | 1.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 1.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 18, 2026 | 1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 17, 2026 | 15.2 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 16, 2026 | 22.1 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 15, 2026 | 16.3 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 14, 2026 | 32 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 13, 2026 | 23.4 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 12, 2026 | 24.3 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 11, 2026 | 30.4 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 10, 2026 | 12.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 9, 2026 | 23.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 8, 2026 | 19.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 1.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 4, 2026 | 3.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 3, 2026 | 18.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 2, 2026 | 1.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 1, 2026 | 13.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 8.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 0.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 1.2 | 💤 Quiet | [Open Kimi in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=kimi) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/kimi) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)