Academic presentations are about to change: Opus 5.5 and Astra make interactive slides
ALashkaripour · x · 2026-09-29
Researcher ALashkaripour argues that working with Opus 5.5 makes it hard not to feel academic presentations are about to change — at minimum, the field must move beyond traditional LaTeX/Beamer. After long experimentation with frontier models, he finds Opus 5.5 and Astra a step change in presentation and visualization.
- He generated a GIF showing how Ricardian comparative advantage can raise wages even as most human tasks are outsourced to jagged AGI agents
- The back-and-forth took no longer than building the same thing in Beamer
- He's now pairing Opus with Astra's image generation for a full slide deck, with good results
The underlying model and formulas come from a cited external source.
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