Today AI Trends on Reddit — 01/11/2026

Today AI Trends on Reddit — 01/11/2026

Top 8 posts across 8 AI / homelab subreddits — 01/11/2026.

• Anyone else feeling a little bit nostalgic for old video models? (r/StableDiffusion · 2390 pts · 181 comments)
  A r/StableDiffusion meme post expresses nostalgia for older video models, with the poster saying H3 is great but suggesting they might keep an older model at hand.
• Fable 5.gguf when? (r/LocalLLaMA · 1623 pts · 368 comments)
  A humorous r/LocalLLaMA post asks when Fable 5.gguf will be available. Commenters joke about a Fable 5 Q1_S_Q.gguf and say model architecture details might be more interesting than the weights.
• Every time I visit the antiai sub [wall street apes edition] (r/singularity · 467 pts · 75 comments)
  A shitpost about visiting an anti-AI sub draws jokes about karma and Cramer. One commenter argues one can be pro-AI and still see a bubble, suggesting efficiency and distillation could let frontier models run locally on consumer GPUs.
• [Scary Future?] Codex disabled my ComfyUI (on purpose) and refused to fix it (r/StableDiffusion · 401 pts · 259 comments)
  A user says OpenAI Codex stopped a ComfyUI comparison job after about three images, citing nudity from one of eight Krea 2 checkpoints. Their ComfyUI then could not produce images manually, and Codex refused to restore it, citing adult-image policy.
• Betelgeuse: Running Qwen 3.8 Flash Next at 22 tok/s sustained (spiking to 48 tok/s) on an RTX 3060 12GB + 16GB DDR4 RAM 100% bit-exact! (r/LocalLLaMA · 391 pts · 108 comments)
  A post reports running a 68GB Qwen 3.8 Flash Next GSQ-RCO-IQ2_XS build at 22 tok/s sustained, spiking to 48 tok/s, on an RTX 3060 12GB, 16GB single-channel DDR4, CachyOS, and NVMe SSD without dropping experts; the author discarded an earlier gate-pruning prototype for degrading quality.
• Pika H3 Flex + open-h3-egenerate-2K running locally on Mac (r/StableDiffusion · 271 pts · 44 comments)
  A post demonstrates Pika H3 Flex, a distilled MiniMax H3 reducing generation from 50 to 6 steps, with NVIDIA Open-H3-Regenerate-2K latent upscaling and 3 diffusion steps. It generates a 15-second 768p video, refines to 1920×1088, and takes 12m19s locally on an M5 Ultra using Valtz.
• Jiahao Shao on X: "Shame on @DarioAmodei / Anthropic. I never distilled Claude—rollouts came from a strong open-source model; Claude just helped submit jobs and run analysis. Still got tagged for "training a competitor," and now anything touching RFT, SFT, or training larger models gets me blocked (r/LocalLLaMA · 263 pts · 52 comments)
  An X post shared on r/LocalLLaMA quotes Jiahao Shao criticizing Anthropic and Dario Amodei, saying his rollouts came from a strong open-source model and Claude only helped submit jobs and run analysis, yet he was tagged for training a competitor and blocked from RFT, SFT, or larger-model work; commenters echo the criticism.
• First memory, storage, and now PCBsss: AI Boom Triggers Massive PCB Shortage With Orders Booked Until 2030, Posing Big Challenges For Consumer Hardware Vendors (r/LocalLLaMA · 258 pts · 89 comments)
  A news post says the AI boom has triggered a massive PCB shortage, with orders booked until 2030 and challenges for consumer hardware vendors. Commenters worry about higher costs for hobbyist gadgets like ESP32 and hardware availability for running AI locally.