Big AI News: Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 Sol, NotebookLM Updates, Muse Charm and More!

Introduction

This was another big week in the world of AI. We have a lot to talk about. Anthropic and OpenAI both released new models on the same day and one of them is my new favorite model. We also got some nice new features for Gemini notebook and a new Gro model plus voice calls with their Grock bots. And Meta held its connect event where they announced a lot of new stuff for MetaMuse. We'll talk about all of that and a whole lot more in this week's AI news recap. My name is Paul Jay Lipsky and every week I cut through the noise to bring you the AI news that actually matters. So make sure to subscribe to stay on top of what's new. And now let's get into it. We'll start by talking about Anthropic and OpenAI. So both Anthropic and OpenAI released new models this week. We have Opus 5.5 and GPT6 Soul. I covered both of them when they first dropped earlier this week, but those videos are really just a

Main Topic

here. So before we read that, let me wait for Opus 5.5 to finish because I'm curious how long that one's going to take. And there we go. Slightly over 2 minutes in and it is finishing up here. So GPT6 Soul was definitely faster but not by a lot. All right, so let's read these side by side. We'll start with GPT6 Soul because it finished first. So it says OpenAI's GPT6 Soul cost half as much per API token as Claude Opus 5.5. So Soul the obvious choice. Then you look at independent intelligence benchmark and Opus wins by 10 points. These models launched in the same week and the answer depends on what you're asking them to do. If you're choosing one for coding research or everyday work, here's where I'd start. Yeah, that's okay. Don't really love it, but it's okay. So, let's read what Opus 5.5 put together. On Tuesday, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5. About 90 minutes later, OpenAI releas

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include in a lot of my videos. So, I gave both of them the same task, asking them to create a motion graphic for a video I'm working on soon all about new the new Gemini notebook. And I actually also gave the task to Fable 5.1 because that was the model I have been using for all my motion graphics because it was the best up until now. But let's see what the results are. I have all three videos right here playing for you and you can take a look at them kind of giving you a blind test here so you can figure out for yourself which one you like the best. And personally I think number one did the worst. That one is GPT6 Soul. But the second one is the best. that is Fable 5.1. And the third one is Opus 5.5, which I also think did a very good job. Not quite as good as Fable, but pretty close. And considering it's cheaper, it probably is going to be the one that I use for most of my design work.

Visual Analysis

raw footage. I'm in the bottom right hand corner the entire time. There are no zoomins. There's no highlights. There's no scene changes like format changes. And all of the blank spaces are left in and all the bad takes are left in. So, those are all things that I asked the models to change. Let's look at what GBT6 Astra did. So, notice the first thing it did was it made me full screen here. And this looks very strange to me. I don't know why it chose this layout. Um, this is not the layout I normally use for my videos. It's just way too much background space. It's a very strange choice. But, let's give it a quick watch. Today, I'm going to show you how to use Gemini Notebook. The first thing you need to do is click right here where it says immediately. That's wrong. This is not I wanted it to zoom in where I clicked and this is not where I clicked. It zoomed in on totally the wrong place

Assessment

for me that are the best results I've ever gotten out of an AI editor before. Now, as for the pricing, both of them use about 1% of their current usage, which was quite good, but the speed was very surprising. Opus 5.5 took 7 minutes and 15 seconds, but GPT6 Soul took 15 minutes and 30 seconds, which shocked me because in most of the testing I've done this past week, GPT6 Soul has been much faster, at least faster than Opus 5.5. But here, it was so much slower. and the results were honestly terrible. So, hands down, Opus 5.5 wins this one. Now, those aren't the only tests I ran, but I don't want this entire new segment to just be a comparison between these two models. But for me, the conclusion after using both of these models all week is very clear. GBT6 Soul may be cheaper and faster, but Opus 5.5 is better. In fact, I'll even say that GBT66 Soul is a disappointment. Somehow, it feels

Conclusion

chat here, it can be quite slow. So, I was happy to see that the live chat was much faster than I anticipated and you were able to interrupt it as well. So, yeah, really nice feature. It's only available for Ultra subscribers right now, but it should roll out for other paid plans soon hopefully. Next, you can now use your notebooks as a source in Google Docs. So, if you open up a Google Doc, if you didn't know this, down here is a Gemini bar where you can ask it to write for you or refine any text you've already written. But you can also reference other things you have in drive or now notebooks. So if you type in the at symbol, you can now start typing in the name of your notebook. What do we call the one? Family financial records, right? One we were just looking at. So I can select that and we'll now use that as a source to help write this document. They've also added a new type of repo