Two Minute Papers's breakout videos
Every recent long-form upload, scored against the channel's own median. These are the videos the audience pushed far past normal. Updated weekly.
GPT-6 Astra Changes Everything
OpenAI Claims It Just Did The Impossible3.6×3
I Never Thought I’d See This Happen3.0×4
Claude Opus 5.5 AI: An Incredible Leap Forward2.9×5
OpenAI’s New AI Is Doing Things We Barely Understand2.8×6
DeepSeek’s Insane New Architecture2.6×7
DeepSeek Solved AI’s Memory ProblemWhat's working for Two Minute Papers right now
The channel's typical long-form video gets about 132K views. “GPT-6 Astra Changes Everything” reached 581K, roughly 4.4 times that. Among this channel's outliers, the most common title formats are personal story (1). When one idea outperforms a channel's baseline this much, the audience is telling you the topic and packaging resonated, which makes it worth studying before you plan your next video.
How these scores work
We take the channel's latest long-form uploads (Shorts excluded), find the median view count, and divide each video's views by it. A 5× score means five times the channel's normal performance. Data comes from the public YouTube Data API and refreshes weekly. Last updated November 5, 2026.
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