--- title: "OpenAI — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/openai as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # OpenAI (🏢 Companies) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › OpenAI 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](https://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. | Source | Metric | Latest | Normal | × normal | Above normal | Share of score | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | Bluesky | trending | 0.6 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | yes | 60% | | Wikipedia | pageviews | 7,511 | 6,290 | 1.2× | no | 17% | | SF local press (RSS) | items | 2 | 0 | — | no | 10% | | HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) | frontpage hours | 28.4 | 15.7 | 1.8× | no | 4.7% | | GitHub | new repos | 335 | 303 | 1.1× | no | 3.4% | | Mastodon (fediverse) | tag uses | 156 | 139 | 1.1× | no | 2% | | Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) | items | 13 | 11.5 | 1.1× | no | 1.3% | | Hacker News | mentions | 22 | 20.5 | 1.1× | no | 0.5% | ## Stories behind it 1. [They are playing in our faces](https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3mwgnt2ovss2n) — Bluesky · Sep 26 · score 8,670 · 210 comments 2. [gpt-6-luna-max enters the text Arena leaderboard at #158](https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text) — LMArena (leaderboard) (openai) · Sep 25 · score 4,792 3. [What will be announced at OpenAI DevDay 2026?](https://manifold.markets/Bayesian/what-will-be-announced-at-openai-de) — Manifold Markets (@Bayesian) · Sep 27 · score 3,529 4. [GPT-6 Sol and Luna](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805509) — Hacker News (openai.com) · Sep 22 · score 1,776 · 855 comments 5. [GPT-6 Sol and Luna](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805509) — 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](https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1wqmxk3/) — 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.](https://github.com/Niko1221/Strata) — 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…](https://social.coop/@GuerillaOntologist/117315098768708344) — Mastodon (fediverse) (social.coop) · Sep 22 · score 368 · 5 comments 9. [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 10. [Rethinking Agents: Special Edition — What Happens When AI Starts Building With You?](https://luma.com/bpvmjt7c) — Luma (SF AI events) (Stanford Entrepreneurs) · score 120 11. [Codex is down, confirmed by OpenAI](https://community.openai.com/t/codex-is-down-confirmed-by-openai/1400811) — 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](https://www.techmeme.com/260923/p38#a260923p38) — 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](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 43% of its stories - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 35% of its stories - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 30% of its stories - [Policy & macro](https://abovethefog.app/themes/policy_macro.md) — 25% of its stories - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 13% of its stories - [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 5.7% of its stories Payment rails its stories name: - [PSPs & fintechs](https://abovethefog.app/themes/psp_fintech.md) — 4 stories - [ACP](https://abovethefog.app/themes/acp.md) — 2 stories - [x402](https://abovethefog.app/themes/x402.md) — 1 story - [AP2](https://abovethefog.app/themes/ap2.md) — 1 story ## Related topics - **Related to:** [AI IPOs](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_ipos.md), [AI in math](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_math.md) - **Competes with:** [Anthropic](https://abovethefog.app/topics/anthropic.md), [Google DeepMind](https://abovethefog.app/topics/google_deepmind.md), [Meta Superintelligence Labs](https://abovethefog.app/topics/meta_msl.md), [Mistral AI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mistral.md), [SpaceXAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/spacexai.md), [Thinking Machines Lab](https://abovethefog.app/topics/thinking_machines.md) - **Key people:** [Sam Altman](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sam_altman.md) - **Mentioned with:** [Hugging Face](https://abovethefog.app/topics/hugging_face.md) (404 stories), [Agent security incidents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agent_security.md) (371 stories), [AI slowdown](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_slowdown.md) (119 stories), [Dario Amodei](https://abovethefog.app/topics/dario_amodei.md) (119 stories), [Safe Superintelligence](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ssi.md) (6 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 15.1 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 26, 2026 | 18.4 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 25, 2026 | 38.7 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 24, 2026 | 52.7 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 23, 2026 | 55.1 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 22, 2026 | 50.2 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 21, 2026 | 42.3 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 20, 2026 | 9.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 13.7 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 18, 2026 | 51.7 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 17, 2026 | 66.3 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 16, 2026 | 26.9 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 15, 2026 | 28.7 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 14, 2026 | 39.6 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 13, 2026 | 24.6 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 12, 2026 | 27.6 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 11, 2026 | 65.3 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 10, 2026 | 78.7 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 9, 2026 | 85.6 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 8, 2026 | 86.1 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 7, 2026 | 56.3 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 6, 2026 | 25.3 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 5, 2026 | 37.7 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 4, 2026 | 72.1 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 3, 2026 | 82.8 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 2, 2026 | 22.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 1, 2026 | 10.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 19.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 11.3 | 💤 Quiet | [Open OpenAI in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=openai) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openai) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)