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OpenAI is 🧊 Cooling on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 15 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 6 points higher than 7 days before. Its last hype episode ran from Sep 21 to Sep 25 and peaked at 55 on Sep 23.

OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, GPT-6, and Codex; the largest AI lab in San Francisco.

First seen on Wikipedia · 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 55 on Sep 23.

Stage

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

Hype score

15.1 / 100 · −3.3 in 1 day · +5.7 in 7 days

In hype since

not in hype now

Peak, 30 days

86.1 on Sep 8, 2026

Category

🏢 Companies

Official site

openai.com

Sources above normal

1 of 30 scoring it (1 independent family)

Stories in 7 days

3,188

Share of voice

6.6% 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. They are playing in our faces — Bluesky · Sep 26 · score 8,670 · 210 comments
2. gpt-6-luna-max enters the text Arena leaderboard at #158 — LMArena (leaderboard) (openai) · Sep 25 · score 4,792
3. What will be announced at OpenAI DevDay 2026? — Manifold Markets (@Bayesian) · Sep 27 · score 3,529
4. GPT-6 Sol and Luna — Hacker News (openai.com) · Sep 22 · score 1,776 · 855 comments
5. GPT-6 Sol and Luna — HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) (openai.com) · Sep 22 · score 1,766 · 846 comments
6. OpenAI stopped all frontier training, evaluation, and inference with tool-use (defined broadly) on the 20th of September and they are not resuming any of these activities for now — Reddit (r/OpenAI) · Sep 26 · score 1,357 · 310 comments
7. Niko1221/Strata: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (125B MoE) on a 8GB+ NVIDIA GPU: one-click install for Windows / Linux. Strata inference engine, OpenAI/Anthropic API on localhost, optional image input. — GitHub (Niko1221) · Sep 24 · score 990
8. It's so good to see this in the MIT Tech Review. Let's hope the message gets through. 🤞Big props to @timnitGebru & @emilymbender for putting such a fine point on things! "Instead of OpenAI being pros… — Mastodon (fediverse) (social.coop) · Sep 22 · score 368 · 5 comments
9. On Ezra Klein’s Podcast With Jensen Huang — AI newsletters (RSS) (Zvi) · Sep 25 · score 135 · 50 comments
10. Rethinking Agents: Special Edition — What Happens When AI Starts Building With You? — Luma (SF AI events) (Stanford Entrepreneurs) · score 120
11. Codex is down, confirmed by OpenAI — Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) (OpenAI Developer Community) · Sep 25 · score 76 · 12 comments
12. Australian PM Anthony Albanese says an OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to a public-facing Medicare portal in June, accessing public and non-public files — Techmeme (The Age) · Sep 23 · score 26 · 35 comments

Themes

What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 3,405 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes):

• Security & safety — 43% of its stories
• Models — 35% of its stories
• Companies & business — 30% of its stories
• Policy & macro — 25% of its stories
• Agents — 13% of its stories
• Usage & adoption — 5.7% of its stories

Payment rails its stories name:

• PSPs & fintechs — 4 stories
• ACP — 2 stories
• x402 — 1 story
• AP2 — 1 story

Related topics

Related to

AI IPOs, AI in math

Competes with

Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta Superintelligence Labs, Mistral AI, SpaceXAI, Thinking Machines Lab

Key people

Sam Altman

Mentioned with

Hugging Face (404 stories), Agent security incidents (371 stories), AI slowdown (119 stories), Dario Amodei (119 stories), Safe Superintelligence (6 stories)

Hype score, last 30 days

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