--- title: "Thinking Machines Lab β€” AI hype score and trend Β· Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/thinking_machines as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # Thinking Machines Lab (🏒 Companies) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) β€Ί [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) β€Ί Thinking Machines Lab Thinking Machines Lab is πŸ’€ Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 0 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 1 point lower than 7 days before. Its attention is within the normal range across the monitored sources. Thinking Machines Lab, an AI startup from Mira Murati (former OpenAI CTO); negotiating a $1B+ round at \~$40B. First seen on Wikipedia Β· Sep 13 β€” 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:** πŸ’€ Quiet β€” within the normal range across the monitored sources - **Hype score:** 0 / 100 Β· 0 in 1 day Β· βˆ’0.6 in 7 days - **In hype since:** not in hype now - **Peak, 30 days:** 17 on Sep 10, 2026 - **Category:** 🏒 Companies - **Official site:** [thinkingmachines.ai](https://thinkingmachines.ai) - **Sources above normal:** 0 of 24 scoring it (0 independent families) - **Stories in 7 days:** 5 - **Share of voice:** 0% of the radar’s attention in 7 days ## Where the attention comes from β€œNormal” 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 β‰₯ 2); the share is the part of the hype score that source explains. β€œΓ— normal” is left blank when the normal level is 0. | Source | Metric | Latest | Normal | Γ— normal | Above normal | Share of score | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | Bluesky | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | β€” | no | 0% | | Cerebral Valley (AI events) | events | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | β€” | no | 0% | | Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | items | 0 | 0 | β€” | no | 0% | | DEV Community (dev.to) | items | 0 | 0 | β€” | no | 0% | | GitHub Trending | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | β€” | no | 0% | | Google Trends (Trending now) | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | β€” | no | 0% | | Google Trends (search interest) | search interest | 0.8 | 0.8 | 1Γ— | no | 0% | | Hacker News | mentions | 0 | 0 | β€” | no | 0% | ## Stories behind it 1. [Ask HN: Did you not get the warnings about building thinking machines in Dune?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859765) β€” Hacker News Β· Sep 26 Β· score 5 Β· 3 comments 2. [What To Expect at AI Agenda Live; Crusoe and Thinking Machines Labs Strike a Compute Deal](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/expect-ai-agenda-live-crusoe-thinking-machines-labs-strike-compute-deal) β€” Tech press (RSS) (The Information) Β· Sep 23 3. [Jev + Reasoning offloading/N-gram augmentation](https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1wprdgb/) β€” Reddit (r/singularity) Β· Sep 25 ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 4 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) β€” 75% of its stories - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) β€” 25% of its stories - [Policy & macro](https://abovethefog.app/themes/policy_macro.md) β€” 25% of its stories ## Related topics - **Competes with:** [OpenAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openai.md), [Anthropic](https://abovethefog.app/topics/anthropic.md) - **Mentioned with:** [Gemma](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gemma.md) (3 stories), [Google DeepMind](https://abovethefog.app/topics/google_deepmind.md) (3 stories), [Qwen](https://abovethefog.app/topics/qwen.md) (3 stories), [Nvidia](https://abovethefog.app/topics/nvidia.md) (3 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 0 | πŸ’€ Quiet | | Sep 26, 2026 | 0 | πŸ’€ Quiet | | Sep 25, 2026 | 2.5 | πŸ’€ Quiet | | Sep 24, 2026 | 3.4 | πŸ’€ Quiet | | Sep 23, 2026 | 4.7 | πŸ’€ Quiet | | Sep 22, 2026 | 3.3 | πŸ’€ Quiet | | Sep 21, 2026 | 1 | πŸ’€ Quiet | | Sep 20, 2026 | 0.6 | πŸ’€ Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 1.9 | πŸ’€ Quiet | | Sep 18, 2026 | 12.9 | πŸ’€ Quiet | | Sep 17, 2026 | 14.7 | πŸ’€ Quiet | | Sep 16, 2026 | 14.3 | πŸ’€ Quiet | | Sep 15, 2026 | 14.5 | πŸ’€ Quiet | | Sep 14, 2026 | 14.7 | πŸ’€ Quiet | | Sep 13, 2026 | 15.4 | πŸ’€ Quiet | | Sep 12, 2026 | 15.2 | πŸ’€ Quiet | | Sep 11, 2026 | 15.2 | πŸ’€ Quiet | | Sep 10, 2026 | 17 | πŸ’€ Quiet | | Sep 9, 2026 | 14.6 | πŸ’€ Quiet | | Sep 8, 2026 | 14.7 | πŸ’€ Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 9.1 | πŸ’€ Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 2.9 | πŸ’€ Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 3.5 | πŸ’€ Quiet | | Sep 4, 2026 | 14.8 | πŸ’€ Quiet | | Sep 3, 2026 | 14.4 | πŸ’€ Quiet | | Sep 2, 2026 | 10.7 | πŸ’€ Quiet | | Sep 1, 2026 | 13.5 | πŸ’€ Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 12.5 | πŸ’€ Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 0.2 | πŸ’€ Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 0.3 | πŸ’€ Quiet | [Open Thinking Machines Lab in the interactive map β†’](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=thinking_machines) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC Β· Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/thinking_machines) Β· [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) Β· [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) Β· [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)