Summary
This week’s AI news brought major launches from the biggest labs and a batch of creative-tool updates. Theoretically Media rounds up the highlights, starting with a busy release day when Anthropic shipped Opus 5.5 and OpenAI released Soul 6 and Luna 6.
The host says Opus 5.5 competes with Fable on intelligence at a fraction of the cost, is about 40% cheaper or more efficient than Opus 5, and has shed the personality quirks of earlier Opus models. Soul 6 is significantly cheaper but is seen by some as too concise. OpenAI also connected voice to mail, calendar and Slack, and its DevDay is set for next week amid rumors of an assistant to rival Meta’s Muse.
Meta Connect put Muse in the spotlight, with new VR glasses at $1,299, updated Ray-Ban Meta glasses and the Muse Charm, a 5G AI companion device with real-time voice. On the creative side, Alibaba previewed a video model due in November that is pitched as a Seedance competitor, Google appears to be staging Nano Banana 2.5 Flash, Odyssey released Agora 2 for multi-agent world simulation in Diablo II, and PixVerse launched its real-time world model R2. The video also touches on audio updates and what is coming next.
📺 Source: Theoretically Media · Published September 24, 2026
🏷️ Format: Roundup
