Hollywood's Secret AI Video Tool

01 · ▶ on the show at 9:57

Claude Super Bowl Ads

By Anthropic, Mother London

Anthropic's run of Super Bowl spots for Claude, mocking the idea of ads inside AI chatbots. A heartfelt question about talking to your mum turns into a pitch for a mature dating site, and the same trick hits a six-pack plan, an essay and a new business idea, all set to "What's the difference between me and you?". Four one-minute spots, played back to back. Chris Branch believes Mother London is the agency and called the series genius. Andrew, arriving just as they finished, compared them to the Black Mirror episode where a woman starts speaking ads because she's on the cheapest plan.

“I thought this whole series was honestly quite genius.”Chris Branch · ▶ 11:15

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02 · breaking news · ▶ on the show at 23:11

Vidu Q3 first test

By Mark Isle

A sneak look at a new model. Mark Isle, who works with the Gen HQ community and has early access to Vidu, sent Chris Branch his very first test of Vidu Q3, and he's due on the show soon. It was only a quick test, but Chris liked the animation on the sun and the anime-style look, which he compared to Niji, Midjourney's animation-focused version. A reminder that Kling wasn't the only video model moving in the first week of February 2026.

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03 · breaking news · ▶ on the show at 24:04

Runway Motion Sketch

By Runway

A new app inside Runway: upload an image, hit sketch on image, then scribble paths and arrows to direct the action before you generate. The hosts compared it with Runway's older Motion Brush, where Rory Flynn painted one robin's move to the other side of another robin on a branch. Motion Sketch goes further, letting you draw in something like an explosion and have it appear, which makes it feel closer to video inpainting. One to try for anyone in Runway's creator partner programme.

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04 · breaking news · ▶ on the show at 25:45

Audio to video workflow demo

A brand new workflow Chris Branch had talked about the week before without a demo: upload a starting frame and a clip of audio, then describe in text where the audio should land. The demo he found on X, from a random user with no platform credited, opens on a character saying you probably weren't expecting me to sound like this. The hosts see it as a way to put back catalogues to work, from audio samples to directors' driving videos, and Andrew predicted 2026 will be the year of the edit.

“I think this year is going to be the year where the quality will go up, of course, but it's going to be about editing.”Andrew Davis · ▶ 27:26

05 · ▶ on the show at 29:09

Xfinity Jurassic Park Super Bowl Ad

By Xfinity

The hot debate going into Super Bowl weekend. Xfinity's spot brings back the original Jurassic Park cast, de-aged, with the park's systems failing until Xfinity's Wi-Fi saves the day. The brand says no AI was used, and that the de-ageing is why it looks like AI. Imagine the budget, said Chris Branch: the cast, the IP licence and a product that solves the plot. Danny argued in the chat that the fallout would be severe if a brand admitted to AI, and Chris expects agencies to deny it until they're caught.

“Forget the AI. It was just a good ad. A very creative ad.”Andrew Davis · ▶ 34:10

06 · ▶ on the show at 36:08

Vans Spec Ad

By Johannes Verillion

The first of the underrated spec ads Chris Branch has been finding on award panels and Vimeo rather than in social feeds. This 57-second Vans spot blew him away with its style, tone and pacing, hundreds of shots cut in split seconds, and the only slip he spotted was a skateboard passing through a pole mid-grind. Andrew saw a few physics wobbles but liked it, and the hosts agreed it felt really on brand. A chat comment made the point of the segment: good editing makes AI work look professional.

“Editing can make stuff look professional even if you're not a professional editor.”Chris Branch · ▶ 37:30

07 · ▶ on the show at 38:29

Animals

By Carol Marg

A spec ad from a female creator that Chris Branch wouldn't name the brand of before playing it. Animals age through the years to the classic love song Only You, and the twist only lands at the end: it's an ad for a vegetarian restaurant. The hosts agreed it's the type of ad people remember. Chris used it as the lesson for anyone making specs: it needs a twist and a story, plus great sound design and a song choice that fits the edit and pacing.

“If you want to do specs, it has to have a twist. It has to have a story.”Chris Branch · ▶ 40:11

08 · ▶ on the show at 42:50

Tropical Punch

By Jason (Tomlin 75)

A 20-second animated spot for a tropical punch drink: a splash of sunshine, grapes, pineapple and orange, set to a jingle about feeling the rush. Chris Branch said there's no real story, just a fun use of animation for quick social media content rather than advertising. But as the hosts agreed, it's exactly the kind of simple ad you see on TV, and it just worked. Chris promised to share the creator's details after the show, as these smaller pieces are harder to credit.

09 · ▶ on the show at 44:25

Winston's worship music video

By Winston Mayo

Winston, a regular in the chat who had just landed a feature, sent this in the same day and billed it as the most anointed song you will ever hear: a worship track about confession and being made new. He wrote the song himself, made the images with Midjourney and Nano Banana Pro, and animated them with Kling 2.6, Kling 2.5, Veo 3.1 and one more model. Andrew asked why so many video models. Chris Branch's answer: it's problem solving, some are better at lip sync, some at movement.

“It's whichever one seems to solve the problem.”Chris Branch · ▶ 48:19

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10 · ▶ on the show at 48:35

Mira

By Dave Clark

The first big Kling 3.0 film of the night, played from the high-resolution raw file Dave Clark sent in. An assassin called Mira won't leave a job unfinished, kills a powerful man and is told by the order to lay low, and the action escalates from there. Dave only had access from the Saturday and posted it the day before the show, so a few physics issues remain that more time and a bigger team would have fixed. Chris Branch called it mental and absolutely bonkers, and a huge leap from the first AI action scenes the show played from Dave.

“I think Kling 3 is really the best physics model there is out there right now.”Chris Branch · ▶ 55:54

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11 · ▶ on the show at 58:09

A Genie 3 walk through Blockbuster

Jude asked what new fingerprints generative AI is leaving that older mediums couldn't, and Chris Branch answered with this: someone prompted Genie 3 to explore a Blockbuster video store. It's silent and uncredited, and it set off a nostalgia trip about renting DVDs, and how losing its exclusive early rental window hurt Blockbuster once streaming arrived. The bigger point was that generative worlds could be a whole new form of entertainment, while most AI work still recreates what we already do.

“I think generative worlds is the new AI thing that nothing else can do.”Andrew Davis · ▶ 59:37

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12 · ▶ on the show at 1:02:50

Artlist Super Bowl Ad

By Artlist

Artlist gave its team a few days to make Super Bowl ads with Artlist's own AI tools, made several concepts and bought real Super Bowl airtime. This is one of them: big game ads take months and cost millions, but that was the old way. Andrew asked to watch it twice. Chris Branch, fresh from meeting the Artlist team in New York, praised them for allowing Kling and other Asian models alongside their own foundational models, and AI LIVE will host their $60,000 competition to make a better ad.

“Very small teams with specialist AI tools can now whip together ads and stuff.”Chris Branch · ▶ 1:04:33

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13 · ▶ on the show at 1:09:18

Plastic Erosion

An ocean plastic spec ad by a Chinese creator that Chris Branch saw while judging awards. It never appeared on Western social media. Ghostly faces in plastic are a common idea, but this one sets haunting underwater visuals against a joyful, upbeat track, and the contrast cut through. Andrew liked the sound of plastic being handled in the background and thought it would work with any soundtrack. The chat called it a nice concept and an epic use of AI.

“Brilliant piece that we may not have been exposed to otherwise.”Chris Branch · ▶ 1:12:14

14 · ▶ on the show at 1:12:50

Uncanny Harry's Kling 3.0 showcase

By Uncanny Harry

Uncanny Harry sent the 800MB original so the show could play it without social media compression: a montage of Kling 3.0 scenes across genres, from a village monster and an orc captain to a vampire love story and a horror film pitch. Chris Branch's takeaway was the one the show has made for over a year: give your model to the right people at launch. He also noticed the humour finally landing, where older models made comedy feel uncanny, and said Uncanny Harry belongs on every early access list.

“Give your model to the right people when you're releasing it. Nothing beats it.”Chris Branch · ▶ 1:14:43

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15 · ▶ on the show at 1:16:01

Faking the Moon Landing on the Moon

By Simon Meyer

Simon Meyer's mockumentary: in 1969 the real moon looked so disappointingly grey, like a very old, very dusty car park, that the crew decided to fake the moon landing on the actual moon, with dollies that never stop rolling and 23 takes of one small step. The punchline: today they'd just use Kling 3.0. Andrew had deliberately not watched it before the show, and Chris Branch promised him a top five moment. The hosts called it one of the best launches of all time. Simon has just launched his own agency.

“I think Simon's my favourite one.”Andrew Davis · ▶ 1:20:19

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16 · ▶ on the show at 1:22:07

The Rorschach Killer

By The Dor Brothers

A new direction from the Dor Brothers, who have announced two multi-million dollar films for 2026 and are testing ideas with teasers first, the exact rollout the show predicted. The Rorschach Killer is a stylised period crime story about a killer whose inkblot markings signal his next celebrity victim, told through news reports and interviews in a look somewhere between cartoon and real. Andrew saw a new genre in it, and both hosts wanted a longer version, maybe retelling real historical events in the same style.

“It's kind of a crossover, isn't it? Because that felt like a YouTube documentary slash action movie.”Chris Branch · ▶ 1:27:35

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17 · ▶ on the show at 1:29:46

No Center

A surreal music video Chris Branch played because the community had asked for more work in the style of Kelly Boesch, and this was the first he'd found: cities folding, platforms melting into streets, no faces and no ground. The creator's username was too hard to pronounce on air, so it's uncredited here. Miriam in the chat said it could pass for a furniture commercial, Chris asked whether the banging track was a Suno beat or a real one, and Andrew loved how well the visuals matched the song.

“Music sells everything but music.”Andrew Davis · ▶ 1:34:20

18 · ▶ on the show at 1:35:28

Kelly Boesch's new music video

By Kelly Boesch

The OG of the surreal AI music video, with millions of Spotify plays a month. Kelly Boesch's latest is unmistakably hers from the first few frames, warping and all, because the surrealism is the aesthetic. Chris Branch's guess, from following her work closely, is that it all starts with lyrics she writes in Suno. The hosts loved that every track, video and short-form cut is a licensable asset, and that she has a route to fund her own art without ever having to work for anyone else.

“She's just carved such an identity for herself, hasn't she?”Chris Branch · ▶ 1:39:26

19 · ▶ on the show at 1:42:37

Assassin

By PJ Ace

PJ Ace's brand new short: an assassin in the king's chambers, a guard who doesn't know what he's looking at, and a final message for a brother. Chris Branch realised halfway through that it had to be Kling 3.0, because nothing else could do combat physics with that accuracy. Andrew spotted a guard's line that cuts from a wide shot to a close-up and still syncs perfectly. Lara in the chat called budget officially a myth, and Chris's message for 2026 was simple: no more excuses.

“I realised halfway through it has to be Kling 3, because no one would do that sort of combat physics near to that accuracy right now.”Chris Branch · ▶ 1:44:20

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20 · ▶ on the show at 1:47:45

Hey Boy Hey Girl car video

Random funny video of the week: a car full of people, plus a dog, bobbing along to Hey Boy Hey Girl, which Andrew placed as the Chemical Brothers. Chris Branch was sure it must be based on a famous ad but couldn't place it. The dog popping out of the window made him laugh out loud and earned the clip its spot. Andrew wondered whether the shots where the dog's head is missing were a creative choice or just how the generations came out, a question only the creator can answer.

21 · ▶ on the show at 1:50:46

Alien short film made in Runway

By Javier de la Chica

To give Runway its due, one of the best videos Chris Branch had seen made exclusively in Runway, by Javier de la Chica: a three-minute, dialogue-free alien adventure carried by its visuals and soundtrack. Andrew saw it as exactly the kind of thing that breaks AI into the mainstream. Chris pointed to the alien's continuity from scene to scene, which he believes comes from Nano Banana inside Runway, and said the old 100 to 1 ratio of generations to usable shots is now close to one for one.

“Things like this is where I can really see AI just breaking through to mainstream.”Andrew Davis · ▶ 1:54:02

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