--- title: "SF AI scene — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/sf_ai_scene as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # SF AI scene (🌉 San Francisco) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › SF AI scene SF AI scene is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 17 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 2 points 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 Sep 11 to Sep 11 (peak 34 on Sep 11). The San Francisco and Bay Area AI scene: events, startups, lab headquarters, and AI's effect on the city. 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:** 17 / 100 · −1.2 in 1 day · +1.5 in 7 days - **In hype since:** not in hype now - **Peak, 30 days:** 34.4 on Sep 11, 2026 - **Category:** 🌉 San Francisco - **Sources above normal:** 1 of 23 scoring it (1 independent family) - **Stories in 7 days:** 135 - **Share of voice:** 1.2% 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 | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | Cerebral Valley (AI events) | events | 69 (Sep 26) | 9 | 7× | yes | 92% | | Luma (SF AI events) | events | 120 (Sep 26) | 112 | 1.1× | no | 7.5% | | Bluesky | trending | 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% | | Google Trends (Trending now) | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Hacker News | mentions | 1 | 1 | 1× | no | 0% | ## Stories behind it 1. [Intel cuts dozens of Bay Area jobs in latest layoffs](https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/1wp7q6h/) — Reddit (r/bayarea) · Sep 24 · score 564 · 104 comments 2. [SF Democratic Party stands behind.. Flock They even have two people on Flock’s payroll! Who didn’t recuse themselves from the vote! Feckless, gormless politicians https://missionlocal.org/2026/09/san…](https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/117328599133078646) — Mastodon (fediverse) (hachyderm.io) · Sep 24 · score 248 · 20 comments 3. [S.F. Democratic Party stands behind Flock surveillance cameras in vote](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49833611) — Hacker News (missionlocal.org) · Sep 24 · score 38 · 33 comments 4. [ClusterMAX 3.0: The Industry Standard GPU Cloud Rating System Returns](https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/clustermax-30-the-industry-standard) — AI newsletters (RSS) (SemiAnalysis) · Sep 23 · score 86 · 0 comments 5. [a16z invests $35M in Horowitz Andreessen Academy, an independent, unaccredited two-year alternative to college; Anthropic, Meta, and others will provide compute](https://www.techmeme.com/260922/p21#a260922p21) — Techmeme (Wall Street Journal) · Sep 22 · score 9 · 27 comments 6. [Top 12 Patient Portal Development Companies in San Francisco](https://dev.to/jameswilson185/top-12-patient-portal-development-companies-in-san-francisco-gdg) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 25 · score 1 · 0 comments 7. [#Pier39 #SanFrancisco #SeaLions #JPegsFolder](https://mastodon.social/@CStamp/117312592994996591) — Mastodon (fediverse) (mastodon.social) · Sep 22 · score 23 · 2 comments 8. [I love this beach and these rocks. One day I'll go back with someone so I can stay later. I leave just as the lighting gets really interesting. It's a bit of a walk out and along a dark, mostly deser…](https://mastodon.social/@CStamp/117350089400834837) — Mastodon (fediverse) (mastodon.social) · Sep 28 · score 21 · 2 comments 9. [Anthropic Loses to the Pentagon: The D.C. Circuit Ruling](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/comments/1wqidnw/) — Reddit (r/Anthropic) · Sep 26 · score 71 · 34 comments 10. [Anthropic eröffnet Biologie-Labor unter anderem für Medikamentenforschung Anthropic hat ein Biologie-Labor bei San Francisco eröffnet. Dort soll wohl an Medikamenten geforscht werden, auch für selten…](https://social.heise.de/@heiseonline/117320437214172486) — Mastodon (fediverse) (social.heise.de) · Sep 23 · score 8 · 2 comments 11. [San Francisco startup Andon Labs develops terrifying drone that stalks people. Its founders say it’s for safety.](https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1wpamlr/) — Reddit (r/sanfrancisco) · Sep 24 · score 38 · 21 comments 12. [Looking for contractor for electrical trenching – South Bay](https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/1wr8bnu/) — Reddit (r/bayarea) · Sep 27 · score 0 · 5 comments ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 49 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes): - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 49% of its stories - [SF scene](https://abovethefog.app/themes/sf_scene.md) — 47% of its stories - [Policy & macro](https://abovethefog.app/themes/policy_macro.md) — 22% of its stories - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 16% of its stories - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 14% of its stories - [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 6.1% of its stories ## Related topics - **Related to:** [Garry Tan](https://abovethefog.app/topics/garry_tan.md), [Instinct](https://abovethefog.app/topics/instinct.md), [Waymo - robotaxis](https://abovethefog.app/topics/waymo.md) - **Mentioned with:** [Anthropic](https://abovethefog.app/topics/anthropic.md) (47 stories), [Data centers - compute](https://abovethefog.app/topics/data_centers.md) (8 stories), [Dario Amodei](https://abovethefog.app/topics/dario_amodei.md) (6 stories), [Physical AI - humanoids](https://abovethefog.app/topics/physical_ai.md) (4 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 17 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 26, 2026 | 18.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 25, 2026 | 1.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 24, 2026 | 3.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 23, 2026 | 5.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 22, 2026 | 0.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 21, 2026 | 2.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 20, 2026 | 15.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 4.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 18, 2026 | 15.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 17, 2026 | 23.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 16, 2026 | 20.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 15, 2026 | 19.2 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 14, 2026 | 18.2 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 13, 2026 | 20.5 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 12, 2026 | 22.5 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 11, 2026 | 34.4 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 10, 2026 | 15.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 9, 2026 | 12.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 8, 2026 | 12.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 3.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 0.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 1.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 4, 2026 | 3.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 3, 2026 | 0.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 2, 2026 | 2.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 1, 2026 | 12.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 12.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 1.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 3.6 | 💤 Quiet | [Open SF AI scene in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=sf_ai_scene) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sf_ai_scene) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)