[AINews] Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
Claude Opus 5.5 leads SimpleBench at 88.4% as GPT-6, Gemini 3.8 Flash, and MiMo-V2.6-Pro also ship.
Latent Space’s AINews recap says Claude Opus 5.5 shipped and leads SimpleBench at 88.4%, with Terminal-Bench-Science rising from 24% at low effort to 62% at xhigh. GPT-6 Astra and Opus 5.5 lead that benchmark by about 20 points over Fable 5.1, while Qwen3.8 Max scores 12%. Gemini 3.8 Flash posts 41 on the AA Intelligence Index at 291 tokens/s with 1M context, and MIT-licensed Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro scores 46. The issue also covers TypeSafe’s Jev decision model, LangChain agent tooling, and Perplexity’s Photon retrieval engine.
- Opus 5.5 leads SimpleBench at 88.4% and reaches 62% on Terminal-Bench-Science at xhigh effort.
- Gemini 3.8 Flash scores 41 on the AA index at 291 tok/s with 1M context.
- MIT-licensed MiMo-V2.6-Pro scores 46 on the AA index, just behind GPT-5.6 Sol.
- TypeSafe’s Jev judges at about $0.044 per 1K calls, roughly 277 times cheaper than GPT-6.
- Perplexity Photon cut internal retrieval p99 from about 800ms to about 65ms.
- Products
- Claude CodeClineLangChainPhoton
From the original article
13 min read at latent.space
Opus 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.
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