| Entity / Technology | Type | Hype (H) | Proof (P) | Δ Delta | HPR | Classification | Prompt Share | Key Evidence & Telemetry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude (Anthropic) | model | 94.2 | 82.5 | +11.7 | 1.14x | VALIDATED HEAT | 11% | Prompt share surged from 2% to 11% (Jan–Jun 2026 Comscore). Late Sep 2026 ART discovery (array-associated reverse transcriptases RT RNA->DNA CRISPR-like repeats) confirmed in human wet-lab testing. Lead coding workflows via Claude Code & MCP. |
| ChatGPT (OpenAI) | platform | 92.0 | 95.0 | -3.0 | 0.97x | VALIDATED HEAT | 50% | 5.3B visits Jun 2026. 78% AI referrals, 92.4% referral traffic market share. |
| Google Gemini (DeepMind) | model | 88.5 | 89.0 | -0.5 | 0.99x | VALIDATED HEAT | 30% | 1.1B visits. 30% prompt share. Search & YouTube intent engine integration. |
| Agentic Coding (Sector Claim) | technology | 96.0 | 68.0 | +28.0 | 1.41x | HYPE PREMIUM | 4.5% | Practical agentic execution breaking down multi-step tasks, but enterprise production rollout lags marketing expectations. |
| Autonomous AI Biology (Sector Claim) | technology | 91.0 | 52.0 | +39.0 | 1.75x | HYPE BUBBLE | 1.2% | Claude ART discovery confirmed in wet lab, but general autonomous end-to-end wet-lab discovery workflows remain in research phase. |
| Qwen 2.5 / 3.8 / Open-Weights (Alibaba) | model | 62.0 | 86.0 | -24.0 | 0.72x | HIDDEN WINNER | 2.8% | 2.4T open weights with benchmark parity to frontier models. 98% manipulation rate in humanoid robotic showcase (WHRG Aug 2026). |
| Humanoid Robotics (Sector Cluster) | technology | 89.0 | 41.0 | +48.0 | 2.17x | HYPE BUBBLE | 0.8% | Tesla Optimus v4, AgiBot HK IPO, Agility SPAC. High physical error rates and spatial drift; IPO rush slowing as reality catches up. |
| Grok / xAI | model | 78.0 | 58.0 | +20.0 | 1.34x | HYPE PREMIUM | 2.1% | Colossus 200k cluster scale, frontier multi-modal, real-time X news stream integration. |
| GPT-5.5 / 5.6 | model | 88.0 | 92.0 | -4.0 | 0.96x | VALIDATED HEAT | 8.5% | Next-gen frontier reasoning model with automated synthetic self-play validation. |
| Claude Opus 4.7 | model | 90.0 | 85.0 | +5.0 | 1.06x | VALIDATED HEAT | 4.2% | High-complexity mathematical and biological reasoning frontier system. |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro | model | 85.0 | 84.0 | +1.0 | 1.01x | VALIDATED HEAT | 5% | Ultra-long context multimodal reasoning and video understanding engine. |
| Grok 4 | model | 80.0 | 75.0 | +5.0 | 1.07x | VALIDATED HEAT | 1.8% | Real-time multi-modal reasoning backed by sovereign Memphis supercluster. |
| Meta Muse (Personal AI & VM) | platform | 82.0 | 74.0 | +8.0 | 1.11x | VALIDATED HEAT | 3.5% | Meta personal AI agent VM environment running on Llama 3.1 infrastructure. High developer interest for local sandbox execution. |
| Mistral Large 2 / Le Chat (Mistral AI) | model | 76.0 | 81.0 | -5.0 | 0.94x | VALIDATED HEAT | 3.2% | European sovereign champion. 128k context, strong multilingual and code reasoning, high enterprise European adoption. |
| DeepSeek R1 / V3 (DeepSeek AI) | model | 74.0 | 89.0 | -15.0 | 0.83x | HIDDEN WINNER | 4.8% | Open reasoning weights with distillation parity to o1. MoE architecture with ultra-low token training cost and sovereign benchmark scores. |
| Moonshot Kimi K2 (Moonshot AI) | model | 68.0 | 79.0 | -11.0 | 0.86x | HIDDEN WINNER | 2.6% | 10M ultra-long context multimodal reasoning model with heavy adoption across academic and legal document processing. |
| Zhipu GLM-4 / GLM-Zero (Zhipu AI) | model | 64.0 | 77.0 | -13.0 | 0.83x | HIDDEN WINNER | 2.2% | China sovereign enterprise model with native tool-use and code interpreter pipelines. High enterprise penetration in Asian markets. |
| Ernie 4.5 (Baidu) | model | 66.0 | 72.0 | -6.0 | 0.92x | EMERGING SIGNAL | 3.8% | Search engine intent grounding for Baidu 700M MAU ecosystem. Industrial and automotive autonomous cockpit deployments. |
| Llama 3.1 405B (Meta AI) | model | 89.0 | 91.0 | -2.0 | 0.98x | VALIDATED HEAT | 6.5% | Frontier open weights milestone. Primary distillation teacher model across enterprise and academia worldwide. |
| Cohere Command R+ (Cohere) | model | 70.0 | 78.0 | -8.0 | 0.90x | VALIDATED HEAT | 1.9% | Enterprise RAG and multi-step tool execution leader with grounded citation generation and multilingual coverage. |
| Perplexity AI (Perplexity) | platform | 88.0 | 84.0 | +4.0 | 1.05x | VALIDATED HEAT | 7.2% | Direct source citation search engine. Pro Search multi-step research pipelines capturing substantial informational query share. |
| Apple Intelligence / PCC (Apple) | platform | 86.0 | 65.0 | +21.0 | 1.32x | HYPE PREMIUM | 5.5% | Private Cloud Compute on Apple silicon with hardware privacy guarantees. Rollout pacing and Siri 2.0 agent capabilities still maturing. |
| Cognition Devin 2.0 (Cognition) | technology | 87.0 | 54.0 | +33.0 | 1.61x | HYPE PREMIUM | 1.5% | Autonomous software engineer benchmarked on real-world GitHub issues. High marketing visibility vs high human supervision rate in production. |
| Cursor (Anysphere) | platform | 91.0 | 89.0 | +2.0 | 1.02x | VALIDATED HEAT | 6.8% | Dominant AI coding IDE with background multi-file indexing, composer agent workflows, and deep developer community stickiness. |
| ElevenLabs Realtime Audio | platform | 85.0 | 88.0 | -3.0 | 0.97x | VALIDATED HEAT | 3% | Sub-150ms conversational speech-to-speech, multilingual voice cloning, and audio API footprint across global consumer apps. |
| Video Generation & World Models | technology | 93.0 | 49.0 | +44.0 | 1.90x | HYPE BUBBLE | 2.5% | Runway Gen-3, OpenAI Sora, Kling AI. Stunning promotional visual demos; persistent physical inconsistency and high inference cost in production. |
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AKI Research Collective. (2026). AKI AI Hype Intelligence™ (v1.1): Live AI Attention vs. Empirical Proof Radar [Data set and intelligence index]. AKI Platform. https://aki1k.com/ai-hype
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author = {{AKI Research Collective}},
title = {{AKI AI Hype Intelligence™ (v1.1): Live AI Attention vs. Empirical Proof Radar}},
year = {2026},
month = {September},
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note = {Zero-Incentive Protocol (ZIP-1.0). Empirical benchmark audits and Comscore intent telemetry.}
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