AI news this week: Claude Opus 5.5 is INSANE and we love it. Faster, cheaper, better. So much for the AI slowdown. Oh and OpenAI's new thing is good too. On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell go hands on with Claude Opus 5.5, which might be the best model we've ever used (for now). Anthropic says it hits Fable-level performance on most things at about 40% less cost than Opus 5, the writing is clearer, and yes, the five hour usage limits went up and you can now bank your resets. Then we get into what people are already making with it: a guitar store sim, a music-based side-scroller, a Mario Kart benchmark, an underwater exploration game in 3MB, claymation built in Blender, a pop punk single made entirely in code and a lot of very juicy animations. Also: OpenAI answered with GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, two new models that are faster and a lot cheaper than what came before. We compare them with Opus 5.5 (robot hands drawing, pelicans on bicycles in Blender), wonder what OpenAI has lined up for DevDay, and talk about Bel, the reported secret model that's beating the math. Oh, and there's a new Grok. Grok 4.7. It's out. (crickets) Plus: Gavin used Meshy 7.1 to turn a few photos of himself into a rigged, animated 3D model and then built Gavin At Large with his Opus 5.5 agent, a game where a giant Gavin wrecks a lil town. In Actually Useful AI, GPT-6 Astra makes simple motion graphics for a real book trailer. And in AI See What You Did There: Dario vs Sam in a very weird gun fight showdown and what happens when you point Claude at the Moving Image Archive. AI SLOWDOWN? NEVER HEARD OF HER. // Chapters // 00:00 Claude Opus 5.5 & GPT-6 Sol: So Much For The AI Slowdown 03:35 Claude Opus 5.5: Fable-Level Performance For Less (And Bigger Usage Limits) 11:45 Opus 5.5 Is Crazy Good At Making Games 18:02 Opus 5.5 Creative Use Cases: Claymation, Animation, & Education Tools 23:28 GPT-6 Sol & Luna: OpenAI's Faster, Cheaper Models 27:47 What's Next? OpenAI's Rumored Bel Model & Grok 4.7 33:22 Giant Gavin: Turning Myself Into A 3D Model With Meshy 7.1 39:03 Actually Useful AI: GPT-6 Astra Makes Motion Graphics 41:35 AI See What You Did There: Dario vs Sam & The Moving Image Archive // Show Links // Introducing Claude Opus 5.5 https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5 Opus 5.5 guitar store sim https://x.com/bijanbowen/status/2102532400353829356 https://x.com/bijanbowen/status/2102647714857222312 Opus 5.5 music-based side-scroller https://x.com/riku720720/status/2102547249834385584 Opus 5.5 on the Mario Kart bench https://x.com/sawyerhood/status/2102550264914038834 Underwater exploration game in 3MB https://claude.ai/artifact/ReCBQGZ4EirKSiEmT8XXfs Card pack opening (made with a very simple prompt) https://claude.ai/artifact/FiowCxgcuqAvjL9ANRYjQU Claude juice animation https://claude.ai/share/33a38af0-97cd-4d4b-a9af-ae065de70436 Using Blender to make claymation animation https://x.com/JacobMolBio/status/2102569129026916389 Full blown animations https://x.com/other__reality/status/2102514581684052169 A pop punk single made entirely in code https://x.com/aj_dev_smith/status/2102575577563570450 Interactive lens lab https://x.com/RyanSael/status/2102591147927654847 Introducing GPT-6 Sol and Luna https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-sol-and-luna/ Robot hand drawing comparison https://x.com/dimentary/status/2102539444834402314 Pelican on a bicycle in Blender test https://x.com/atomic_chat_hq/status/2102492834485895265 Grok 4.7 https://x.com/SpaceXAI/status/2102069815225586149 Meshy 7.1 multi-image to 3D on fal https://fal.ai/models/meshy/v7.1/multi-image-to-3d Gavin At Large (the Giant Gavin game) https://gavin-at-large.vercel.app Kim's New Book: Write a Novel in 100 Days https://kimpurcell.com/ Dario vs Sam weird gun fight showdown https://x.com/Xanderwow_A/status/2101800791795274106 Moving Image Archive https://x.com/covacut/status/2100990018391265297 Gavin's Claude makes a video from the archive (Fable 5.1) https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2101818839512281116 And the updated version with Opus 5.5 https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2102632595792199944 // Join the AI For Humans community // Join the AI For Humans Discord https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Support AI For Humans on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow Subscribe to the AI For Humans newsletter https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow AI For Humans on X: @AIForHumansShow https://x.com/AIForHumansShow Follow AI For Humans on TikTok: @aiforhumansshow https://www.tiktok.com/@aiforhumansshow Speaking and booking https://www.aiforhumans.show/

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