[AINews] Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
Claude Opus 5.5 ships, leads SimpleBench at 88.4% and dominates explainer video creation
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5.5 to overwhelmingly positive community reception, with the model topping SimpleBench at 88.4% and ranking as Anthropic's best vision model to date at roughly 60% lower cost than Fable 5.1. The release sparked a wave of explainer video content across social media, with the $200 Claude Code plan drawing comparisons to Codex. A notable nuance: the 'max' reasoning effort setting is not recommended as it imposes a minimum reasoning budget and can underperform 'xhigh' on science benchmarks.