[AINews] Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos

תקציר מקורי באנגליתOpus 5.5 shipped this week but the vibes are overwhelmingly positive: And specifically it took over the timeline for explainer videos : AI News for 9/24/2026-9/25/2026. We checked 12 subreddits, 544 Twitters and no further Discords. AINews’ website lets you search all past issues. As a reminder, AINews is now a section of Latent Space . You can opt in/out of email frequencies! AI Twitter Recap Frontier Model Wave: Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra/Sol/Luna, Gemini 3.8 Flash, and Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro Claude Opus 5.5 : Opus 5.5 now leads SimpleBench at 88.4% . On vision evals, @skalskip92 ranks it Anthropic’s best vision model to date: better than Fable 5 and GPT-6 Sol, worse than GPT-6 Astra, at about 60% lower cost than Fable 5.1. Reasoning effort : On Terminal-Bench-Science , Opus