--- title: "OpenClaw — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/openclaw as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # OpenClaw (🤖 Agents) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › OpenClaw OpenClaw is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 1 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 1 point higher 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 Aug 31 to Sep 2 (peak 36 on Aug 31). OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot/Moltbot): an open-source personal AI agent that runs on your machine and acts through messaging apps; version 2.0 in Sep 2026. First seen on Mastodon (fediverse) · Sep 22 — 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:** 1.4 / 100 · −11.2 in 1 day · +1.4 in 7 days - **In hype since:** not in hype now - **Peak, 30 days:** 35.5 on Aug 31, 2026 - **Category:** 🤖 Agents - **Part of:** [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md) - **Official site:** [openclaw.ai](https://openclaw.ai) - **Sources above normal:** 0 of 26 scoring it (0 independent families) - **Stories in 7 days:** 209 - **Share of voice:** 0.4% 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 | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | Mastodon (fediverse) | tag uses | 5 | 2 | 2× | no | 100% | | DEV Community (dev.to) | items | 2 | 1 | 1.5× | no | 0% | | Hacker News | mentions | 2 | 1 | 1.5× | no | 0% | | Luma (SF AI events) | events | 2 (Sep 26) | 1 | 1.5× | no | 0% | | Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) | items | 1 | 0.4 | 1.5× | 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% | ## Stories behind it 1. [NInfer Qwen 3.8-27B uncensored on RTX 5090 175 tok/s changed my life](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLM/comments/1woxb4n/) — Reddit (r/LocalLLM) · Sep 24 · score 192 · 82 comments 2. [Launch HN: Coverage Cat \(YC S22\) – Umbrella insurance via your personal agent](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804931) — Hacker News (coveragecat.com) · Sep 22 · score 54 · 32 comments 3. [ufo-ai/ufo-core: Business agent operating system](https://github.com/ufo-ai/ufo-core) — GitHub (ufo-ai) · Sep 27 · score 79 4. [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 5. [Speaking of boycotts, #Omarchy is an open-source Linux distribution created by David Heinemeier Hansson \(#DHH\), the coder behind Ruby on Rails. DHH has also been infected by the billionaire virus tha…](https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/117316492818758544) — Mastodon (fediverse) (mefi.social) · Sep 22 · score 38 · 1 comment 6. [Nat Friedman says Meta built Muse “from scratch” but was “heavily inspired” by OpenClaw, as users compare the two, including calling Muse “OpenClaw for normies”](https://www.techmeme.com/260922/p49#a260922p49) — Techmeme (TechCrunch) · Sep 22 · score 4 · 18 comments 7. [OpenClaw & Friends Meetup](https://luma.com/oah05xax) — Luma (SF AI events) (OpenClaw) · score 38 8. [A Config Flag Told Me Telegram Was Off. My Gateway Log Said Otherwise.](https://dev.to/rello1/a-config-flag-told-me-telegram-was-off-my-gateway-log-said-otherwise-l22) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 27 · score 0 · 2 comments 9. [AI Builders Berlin](https://lu.ma/berlin-oct20) — Cerebral Valley (AI events) (Other) 10. [#Meta #Muse kopiert #OpenClaw Ideen: #AIAgent stark vom #OpenSource Vorbild "inspiriert".](https://loops.video/v/ikZ3s6mYTY) — Mastodon (fediverse) (loops.video) · Sep 25 · score 5 · 1 comment 11. [Why didn’t Claude or OpenAI come up with the Muse and its approachable consumer packaging? They have all the ingredients.](https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1wr2zqt/) — Reddit (r/OpenAI) · Sep 26 · score 8 · 55 comments 12. [« Early adopters of #Meta ’s #Muse have been speculating that the reason the #AI works so well is because it’s #OpenClaw under the hood, wrapped in a more consumer-friendly package. Meta now says tho…](https://mastodon.online/@clarinette/117317137879671658) — Mastodon (fediverse) (mastodon.online) · Sep 22 · score 5 · 0 comments ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 162 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes): - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 72% of its stories - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 40% of its stories - [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 17% of its stories - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 15% of its stories - [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 11% of its stories - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 9.9% of its stories ## Related topics - **Related to:** [Agent Skills](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agent_skills.md) - **Competes with:** [DeepSeek Harness](https://abovethefog.app/topics/deepseek_harness.md), [Grok Bot](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok_bot.md), [Hermes Agent](https://abovethefog.app/topics/hermes_agent.md), [Instinct](https://abovethefog.app/topics/instinct.md), [Meta Muse](https://abovethefog.app/topics/meta_muse.md) - **Part of:** [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md) - **Mentioned with:** [Local inference](https://abovethefog.app/topics/local_inference.md) (23 stories), [Antigravity](https://abovethefog.app/topics/antigravity.md) (9 stories), [Meta Superintelligence Labs](https://abovethefog.app/topics/meta_msl.md) (5 stories), [LangGraph](https://abovethefog.app/topics/langgraph.md) (4 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 1.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 26, 2026 | 12.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 25, 2026 | 6.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 24, 2026 | 13 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 23, 2026 | 4.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 22, 2026 | 15.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 21, 2026 | 1.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 20, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 0.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 18, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 17, 2026 | 3.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 16, 2026 | 2.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 15, 2026 | 0.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 14, 2026 | 3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 13, 2026 | 1.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 12, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 11, 2026 | 0.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 10, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 9, 2026 | 0.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 8, 2026 | 3.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 1.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 1.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 4, 2026 | 3.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 3, 2026 | 3.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 2, 2026 | 26.6 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 1, 2026 | 27.7 | 🔥 Hot | | Aug 31, 2026 | 35.5 | 🚀 Rising | | Aug 30, 2026 | 1.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 10.8 | 💤 Quiet | [Open OpenClaw in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=openclaw) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openclaw) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)