Trending this week

The AI tools people are talking about right now. We weigh who is talking, not just how loudly: a post from a top AI researcher counts for more than a random account.

Updated Oct 14, 3:13 PM PDT · last 7 days · 18 subreddits, 250 posts from 58 AI voices we track, Hacker News and Product Hunt.

1. 1

   OpenCode 2.0

   New↑ 223% vs usual

   Why it’s trending: 7 popular Reddit threads in 5 subreddits and 1 Hacker News story this week. Up 223% on its usual level. Newly launched.

   • Hacker News“OpenCode 2.0” Hacker News · Oct 14
   • Reddit“OpenCode 2.0.26 is out, if you need to constantly prompt "Continue" it's not just your…” r/LocalLLaMA · Oct 11
   • Reddit“OpenCode can offer this level of access through API billing, but Google can't even give…” r/GeminiAI · Oct 14
   • Reddit“Harnesses: Codex CLI vs OpenCode CLI Types of Work: "Tell me about this code" and…” r/LocalLLaMA · Oct 10
   • Reddit“…use Claude Code, but Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI etc work too), it writes the model…” r/SideProject · Oct 14
2. 2

   OpenRouter

   ↑ 203% vs usual

   Why it’s trending: 6 popular Reddit threads in 6 subreddits and 1 Hacker News story this week. Up 203% on its usual level.

   • Hacker News“Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter” Hacker News · Oct 8
   • Reddit“…Software Engineering benchmark) expose the Openrouter endpoint and API key to models, even though they…” r/LocalLLaMA · Oct 11
   • Reddit“…asset, and your local Claude/Codex/OpenRouter agent drives Blender to produce a game-ready .glb with rig,…” r/ClaudeAI · Oct 10
   • Reddit“…the free models available on OpenRouter, they did worse: one gave me back my text…” r/ChatGPT · Oct 9
   • Reddit“A few companies I've seen this issue with include Anthropic, OpenRouter, and Hugging Face.” r/artificial · Oct 13
3. 3

   Suno

   ↑ 109% vs usual

   The AI song maker. a16z's Olivia Moore credits Suno for building its own music model, while r/SunoAI worries about copyright fights with the big record labels.

   Why it’s trending: Olivia Moore posted about it this week, plus 55 popular Reddit threads in 3 subreddits. Up 109% on its usual level.

   • X“Suno developed a proprietary model in an area where the labs were less likely to…” Olivia Moore (@omooretweets) · Oct 13
   • Reddit“Midjourney + Suno made Animation” r/midjourney · Oct 7
   • Reddit“Suno's Done - EVERYTHING is copywritten” r/SunoAI · Oct 12
   • Reddit“Here is ChatGPT Remastering suno tracks instead of Suno” r/SunoAI · Oct 14
   • Reddit“…Musk says Grok Bot will use Suno’s AI music models, alongside Anthropic’s Claude and Midjourney” r/SunoAI · Oct 9
   • Reddit“So the Big Three is trying to sink Suno” r/SunoAI · Oct 9
4. 4

   n8n

   ↑ 97% vs usual

   A tool for automating busywork by connecting your apps. Mostly people swapping the workflows they've built.

   Why it’s trending: 46 popular Reddit threads in 4 subreddits this week. Up 97% on its usual level.

   • Reddit“n8n for automatisation whisper and Vexa AI, a bot joins Teams and makes transcripts, n8n…” r/LocalLLaMA · Oct 13
   • Reddit“So I got n8n Starter & Cursor Pro/GrokBot & GPT Business & Claude Pro &…” r/cursor · Oct 10
   • Reddit“How useful are n8n skills today, now that Claude and other AIs can build them…” r/n8n · Oct 8
   • Reddit“I got tired of researching keywords manually, so I built this n8n workflow” r/n8n · Oct 11
   • Reddit“Is it possible to build useful n8n automations with $0?” r/n8n · Oct 12
5. 5

   Cursor

   ↑ 58% vs usual

   Why it’s trending: 13 popular Reddit threads in r/cursor this week. Up 58% on its usual level.

   • Reddit“Cursor agent ran a recursive rmdir from C:\ and wiped ~600 GB.” r/cursor · Oct 11
   • Reddit“"Third Party model usage in Cursor is not included in the monthly prices shown and…” r/cursor · Oct 13
   • Reddit“Do Cursor Ai runs a bug bounty program?” r/cursor · Oct 12
   • Reddit“I was pretty excited to here about this when it first dropped. The ability to…” r/cursor · Oct 8
   • Reddit“Cursor benchmarks are not so impressive i mean, for Gemini model, results are great, but…” r/cursor · Oct 13
6. 6

   Midjourney

   ↑ 40% vs usual

   Why it’s trending: Linus Ekenstam posted about it this week, plus 6 popular Reddit threads in 2 subreddits. Up 40% on its usual level.

   • X“The most used image gen tool, ChatGPT with quite a massive lead on Midjourney.” Linus Ekenstam (@LinusEkenstam) · Oct 8
   • X“Midjourney 19th February 2023” Linus Ekenstam (@LinusEkenstam) · Oct 14
   • Reddit“…Musk says Grok Bot will use Suno’s AI music models, alongside Anthropic’s Claude and Midjourney” r/SunoAI · Oct 9
   • Reddit“Midjourney Style Showcase” r/midjourney · Oct 9
   • Reddit“Midjourney + Suno made Animation” r/midjourney · Oct 7
   • Reddit“Midjourney’s thinking mode has some wild ideas” r/midjourney · Oct 10
   • Reddit“Created using midjourney” r/midjourney · Oct 10
7. 7

   Seedance 2.0

   ↑ 36% vs usual

   Why it’s trending: Linus Ekenstam posted about it this week, plus 2 popular Reddit threads in 2 subreddits. Up 36% on its usual level.

   • X“You don't need Seedance 2.5 anymore...” Linus Ekenstam (@LinusEkenstam) · Oct 13
   • Reddit“Torneo de Mujeres 2 - Seedance 2” r/aivideo · Oct 11
   • Reddit“my scratch model is seedance 1.5 at 480p, dirt cheap, exists for exactly this.” r/ClaudeAI · Oct 9
8. 8

   Kling 3.0

   ↑ 28% vs usual

   Why it’s trending: 2 popular Reddit threads in 2 subreddits this week. Up 28% on its usual level.

   • Reddit“Cows on treadmills and other fever dreams — Kling 4” r/aivideo · Oct 8
   • Reddit“Using ChatGPT image gen and Kling video to create seamless motion loops” r/vibecoding · Oct 10
9. 9

   Replit

   Why it’s trending: 2 popular Reddit threads in r/vibecoding this week. About its usual level.

   • Reddit“Maybe more people just build their own tools (Lovable and Replit already make that easy).” r/vibecoding · Oct 14
   • Reddit“…your existing project in Claude Code, Lovable, Replit, v0, Base44, Cursor, or whatever you're using.” r/vibecoding · Oct 10
10. 10

    Zapier

    Why it’s trending: 2 popular Reddit threads in r/n8n this week. About its usual level.

    • Reddit“…some honest feedback from people who work with APIs, n8n, Make, Zapier, or custom integrations.” r/n8n · Oct 14
    • Reddit“Works with Make, Zapier, n8n and custom builds.” r/n8n · Oct 13
11. 11

    Perplexity

    The AI search engine that shows sources. CEO Aravind Srinivas is showing off what people do with Perplexity Computer, and a16z's Olivia Moore noted it's making money from power users.

    Why it’s trending: Aravind Srinivas (Perplexity CEO, insider) and Olivia Moore posted about it this week, plus 5 popular Reddit threads in 4 subreddits. About its usual level.

    • X“Users are reverse engineering and porting software across platforms with Perplexity Computer.” Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) · Perplexity CEO, insider · Oct 14
    • X“Perplexity has recently leaned in to monetizing power users via agentic products like Computer -…” Olivia Moore (@omooretweets) · Oct 13
    • X“Every Perplexity Project is a Git repo.” Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) · Perplexity CEO, insider · Oct 12
    • Reddit“(GPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini)” r/ChatGPTPro · Oct 10
    • Reddit“…- Dense MoE WikiText-2 test perplexity (1024-token windows) 10.41 14.63 (+41%) C4 validation perplexity (64…” r/LocalLLaMA · Oct 13
    • Reddit“…I asked Opus 5.5 on Perplexity Computer: “port aula f75's windows driver files to my…” r/GeminiAI · Oct 13
    • Reddit“Perplexity (1K run only): megakernel 2.4274, llama.cpp batched 2.4283, reference 2.4263.” r/LocalLLaMA · Oct 11
    • Reddit“…AIs: TypsafeAI Jev GPT-6-Luna-Decision Cloudflare Chef Perplexity Decider LiquidAI d1 Many more to me come!” r/vibecoding · Oct 10