Hacker Trends › “openai” trend
“Openai” was mentioned 91,677 times on Hacker News between 2015 and 2026, peaking in Nov 2023 with 5,674 that month.
Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “openai” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.
OpenAI first appears in 2015, the year it was founded, and totals 91,677 lifetime mentions — one of the largest in this set. The curve peaks in November 2023 with 5,674 mentions, the month of Sam Altman’s brief ousting and reinstatement.
Top threads span open-weights releases, the O3 ARC-AGI score, the Whisper speech-recognition release, the Scarlett Johansson “Sky” voice dispute, and Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the company. Discussion stayed heavily active through 2026.
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