--- title: "Sora — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/sora as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # Sora (🧩 Products) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › Sora Sora is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 0 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, about the same as 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 17 to Sep 17 (peak 29 on Sep 17). Sora, OpenAI's video generator: the app was shut down in Apr 2026 and the API goes offline on Sep 24, 2026. 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 · 0 in 7 days - **In hype since:** not in hype now - **Peak, 30 days:** 29 on Sep 17, 2026 - **Category:** 🧩 Products - **Made by:** [OpenAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openai.md) - **Official site:** [sora.com](https://sora.com) - **Sources above normal:** 0 of 24 scoring it (0 independent families) - **Stories in 7 days:** 17 - **Share of voice:** 0.2% 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 | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | 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% | | 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 | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Hugging Face Daily Papers | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | ## Stories behind it 1. [I used Opus 5.5 and Astra to create this AI version of Pac-Man.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wpj2vr/) — Reddit (r/ClaudeAI) · Sep 25 · score 60 · 25 comments 2. [What Is Jev AI? A Practical Guide to System One and Executable Decisions](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858257) — Hacker News (huggingface.co) · Sep 26 · score 1 · 0 comments 3. [Sora 2 vs Veo 3.1 vs Kling 3.0: OpenAI Exits Sept 24 \[2026\]](https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMickFVX3lxTFAxZ1p4Y0hOaVhWN0xWbEJqdlBiVTZVZzAzYy14MEwzWnZ5al81R1FxR3g3M3ZBbVNqblR2T1Vqb2YxVGpZWEFxaFNKcUtwTm0tZXExTE44YUtBWGd3MXc1R2ZVbTh4MkdUMlAySTU0Y2tWZw?oc=5) — Google News (RSS) (tech-insider.org) · Sep 22 4. [Bye Sora. You burned through millions of OpenAI’s cash, but thanks for all the laughs](https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1wopv5f/) — Reddit (r/OpenAI) · Sep 24 · score 1 · 3 comments 5. [I used Opus 5.5 and Astra to build this AI version of Pac-Man.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wphsk2/) — Reddit (r/ClaudeAI) · Sep 25 · score 1 · 1 comment 6. [What is Sora 2’s Content Moderation System?](https://dev.to/mayacollins1/what-is-sora-2s-content-moderation-system-4bdd) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 22 · score 0 · 0 comments 7. [Animating a Still Image with Sora: API Workflow, Prompts, and Failure Modes](https://dev.to/sophiewarren1/animating-a-still-image-with-sora-api-workflow-prompts-and-failure-modes-59o0) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 22 · score 0 · 0 comments 8. [Building Short Videos with Sora 2’s Native Audio](https://dev.to/ryancole1/building-short-videos-with-sora-2s-native-audio-2n92) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 22 · score 0 · 0 comments 9. [Generative AI video tools suck for technical explainers, so I built a pipeline that turns prompts into code-rendered Shorts with React, KaTeX, and local neural TTS](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLM/comments/1wnvt43/) — Reddit (r/LocalLLM) · Sep 23 · score 0 · 1 comment ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 16 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) — 56% of its stories - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 19% of its stories - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 12% of its stories - [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 12% of its stories - Other AI — 12% of its stories ## Related topics - **Made by:** [OpenAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openai.md) - **Mentioned with:** [Gemini](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gemini.md) (5 stories), [Grok](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok.md) (3 stories), [Nvidia](https://abovethefog.app/topics/nvidia.md) (3 stories), [GPT-6 Astra](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gpt6.md) (3 stories), [OpenAI Codex](https://abovethefog.app/topics/codex.md) (3 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 26, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 25, 2026 | 11.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 24, 2026 | 4.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 23, 2026 | 0.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 22, 2026 | 8.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 21, 2026 | 3.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 20, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 18, 2026 | 13.1 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 17, 2026 | 29 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 16, 2026 | 19.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 15, 2026 | 19.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 14, 2026 | 21.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 13, 2026 | 14.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 12, 2026 | 13.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 11, 2026 | 5.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 10, 2026 | 11.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 9, 2026 | 5.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 8, 2026 | 6.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 1.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 0.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 4, 2026 | 3.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 3, 2026 | 3.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 2, 2026 | 3.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 1, 2026 | 0.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 4.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 0.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | [Open Sora in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=sora) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sora) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)