The Wildest AI Video Ever?!

01 · ▶ on the show at 3:43

Animated tech news roundup

Chris's dark horse pick to open a news-heavy show: a fast, cartoony animation that rounds up everything happening in tech, from brain rot and peptides to solo founders with no employees and a new company that's already a dead company. It isn't advertising, but it set up the agents segment by showing just how crazy things are right now. Chris liked it as a fresher way to deliver the news than yet another channel covering the same stories, and Winston in the chat called AI cartoon roundups a really smart show series.

“There's just so much happening and this was engaging and fun and interactive.”Chris Branch · ▶ 4:55

02 · breaking news · ▶ on the show at 7:17

Lovable brand agent

By Lovable

The first of the week's agent launches. Lovable's new brand agent lets a team search for, request or even generate brand assets directly through an AI agent, and keep everything on brand. Andrew admitted that even working in AI full time it's hard to keep up with workflows, agents and agentic AI, and Chris reassured viewers that agents are still beyond most people. Lovable is one of the most popular vibe coding platforms, with Bolt another getting good feedback.

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03 · breaking news · ▶ on the show at 9:55

Perplexity Computer

By Perplexity

Perplexity's own agent interface: a personal computer that's always on locally, merged with Perplexity Computer working for you around the clock, pitched as more personal and secure. Andrew's friend, a big OpenClaw user, tried it and found it very good but expensive: around 200 pounds a month, as Danny said in the chat, plus credits, and he burned through half of his in two days. Andrew thinks safety and privacy are its selling points, since OpenClaw needs real know-how to run safely.

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04 · breaking news · ▶ on the show at 15:53

Manus on desktop

By Manus

Manus moves from the cloud onto your own desktop, which Chris sees as the natural next step for security. Andrew rates Manus in his top five AI tools but expects it to get expensive in credits, and with Manus now owned by Meta, he sees that as both a good and a bad thing. Chris wondered whether Meta might offer a free version you pay for by watching ads, the way it has monetised products before. The conversation then moved on to monday.com saying it will let outside agents run your account.

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05 · ▶ on the show at 21:20

Natalie Garnett's vibe-coded 3D card mockup tool

By Natalie Garnett

A silent screen recording that went super viral. Natalie Garnett works at Ramp and regularly makes 3D mockups of the company's cards, so she explained her day-to-day work to Claude and vibe coded her own in-house tool to do it. Chris sees this as where vibe coding starts adding real value: building the tool nothing on the market offers. Andrew teaches the same idea in his training, and said he had just vibe coded a pipeline and an invoicing tool for himself.

“Think how much more valuable she is now to the business that she can make these tools.”Chris Branch · ▶ 22:16

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06 · breaking news · ▶ on the show at 26:57

Figma import for vibe coding

A design-first vibe coding launch that lets you import Figma designs and go straight to building. Chris saw it as part of the multimodal shift: you used to need to be an expert text prompter, and now images, sounds and design files can all be the input, so anyone with Figma skills can launch websites. Andrew never got into Figma but loves its clean interface. It led to a chat about Figma buying Weavy, Canva buying Leonardo and why startups get funded to be acquired.

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07 · breaking news · ▶ on the show at 30:59

ElevenLabs Flows

By ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs joins the node canvas crowd with Flows, a multimodal canvas for designing complete creative pipelines, comparing models and automating whole systems from idea to finished content. Chris ran through how everyone has one now, from ComfyUI, Flora and Weavy to Figma and Runway, and argued that you have to offer them or leave money on the table, even if some call them murder boards. Andrew has ElevenLabs on his weekly list of tools to dig deeper into.

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08 · breaking news · ▶ on the show at 33:41

Freepik Speak

By Freepik

Freepik, best known as an aggregator of everyone else's models, launched a lip sync tool of its own: upload an image or video, add audio or a script in any language, and get a talking video back, with a gallery of paintings complaining they don't get paid enough. Chris called it a smart move, since owning the best version of something keeps users loyal, and assumed lip sync was what users demanded most. He added that there is still no standout best-in-class lip sync model.

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09 · breaking news · ▶ on the show at 39:23

Photoshop beta object rotation

By Jad Cassis

A tool Paul was especially excited about: AI in Photoshop that turns flat 2D objects into 3D so you can change the perspective of a subject. Chris first saw it at Sneaks at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles, and it is now available in the Photoshop beta. The demo was made by Jad Cassis, a former guest and part of the Adobe AI VIP group, not by Adobe. The hosts agreed it could save hours, and that doing it inside Photoshop is the real win.

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10 · breaking news · ▶ on the show at 44:57

The AI-generated Japanese metal band that went on tour

The story of the week. A European creator used Suno to invent a Tokyo metal band that reached 80,000 monthly listeners, with fans putting it in their Spotify Wrapped top five. When it was exposed, he hired seven real Tokyo musicians, who even look like the generated characters, and the band is now touring, with footage of a real gig on screen. The creator said it had created jobs rather than taken them, and Glenn and Eric in the chat pitched it as an AI Spinal Tap.

“This is how weird and full circle AI is becoming.”Chris Branch · ▶ 45:08

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11 · breaking news · ▶ on the show at 53:24

Nvidia's AI graphics upgrade for games

By Nvidia

Saved till last in the news: Nvidia's AI-powered graphics upgrade, a live neural network that infuses game pixels with photorealistic lighting, shown on titles including FIFA. Chris compared it to the early experiments making Grand Theft Auto look photoreal. It led into a debate about the next GTA, how its huge budget will be earned back, and a future where you subscribe to a world you love that can produce shows in your favourite styles, with in-game characters you can talk to.

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12 · ▶ on the show at 56:32

Artlist 'Big Game' AI Ad Winner

By Nick Guk

The spec ads segment opened with the winner of Artlist's Big Game ad competition and its $60,000 prize. Mission control counts down to a historic Moon landing, the hatch opens, and the astronaut is fast asleep. Chris praised the consistent shots and colour palette. Entries were thought to need Artlist's tools, which include most of the big models, so the exact mix isn't known. He reminded viewers that competitions pay, citing Dave Clark's $500K win for a Grok ad.

“Comedy often wins, doesn't it?”Chris Branch · ▶ 57:58

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13 · ▶ on the show at 59:36

Japanese Whisky Ad

By Jobo Kuruvilla

A slow, beautiful spec ad for Japanese whisky by Jobo Kuruvilla, built around the strapline "to the ones who wait". Chris felt a Guinness-style patience in it that suits a drink that takes so long to make, and said it felt more like a short film than a spec ad: traditional music, good editing and good colour grading. Andrew wasn't sure where it was going until the line landed, and both said the music was spot on.

“I was thinking where's it going? But yeah, I like that strap line: to the ones who wait.”Andrew Davis · ▶ 1:01:24

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14 · ▶ on the show at 1:03:19

MotoGP Experiments

By Ian Walker, Matt Cronin, Carl Addy

Chris's personal pick of the week, found on LinkedIn: research and development work by Ian Walker, with an edit by Matt Cronin and music by Carl Addy, exploring how generative AI could be used for MotoGP. Paul's notes said it is a hybrid of real video and AI, and it isn't clear whether it is official. Chris loved how far it moves from the usual MotoGP style, with its chaos, bold colours and surrealism, and Andrew said it could pass for a commissioned ad.

“I love the vibe though. It feels really cool with the editing style and the sort of chaos of it all.”Chris Branch · ▶ 1:05:42

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15 · ▶ on the show at 1:07:32

Bionic Awards Ad

By SAGE

A post-event roundup of the Bionic Awards, produced by SAGE, that began life as a planned intro video. It animates photos and work from the night, including Chris as an anime judge, and many of the pieces had already been shown on AI LIVE. Chris loved the edit and the music, and remembered the organisers thanking the Rich Mix theatre for supporting an event it didn't understand. Everyone there kept asking where Andrew was.

“It feels like such a smart way to use AI to round up an AI event.”Chris Branch · ▶ 1:10:19

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16 · ▶ on the show at 1:12:52

Luma Labs Ad

By Promise AI

Promise AI got early access to Luma Agents and used them to make Luma's own 60-second spot in seven days, with the agents sharing context across every workflow and helping the team collaborate. Chris said commissioning a studio like Dave Clark's was a smart call. He saw Iron Man's Jarvis in it, Andrew saw Minority Report, and Andrew just wanted it now. Chris, who also had early access, said working with Luma Agents feels like checking in on a coworker rather than chatting with an LLM.

“It felt like a Jarvis thing, didn't it? It felt like an Iron Man Jarvis sort of personal agent, creative agent thing.”Chris Branch · ▶ 1:15:02

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17 · ▶ on the show at 1:17:39

MG Motor Italy Ad

By MG, Zelo

An official, fully AI ad for MG Motor Italy, made in collaboration with Zelo. MG says AI has shortened the cycle from research to broadcast, using customer data to drive the storytelling rather than just make nice visuals. Chris compared it to AI-driven insights in football marketing, noting that AI spots patterns in data that humans struggle to see. Andrew's verdict: you could switch on the TV and not tell the difference.

“This feels like a car ad, not an AI car ad, if that makes sense.”Andrew Davis · ▶ 1:19:49

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18 · ▶ on the show at 1:21:05

Before Sunrise (McLaren Spec Ad)

By Allar Haltsonen

A definite spec ad for McLaren by Allar Haltsonen, with no dialogue, just a character and a car on the road. Chris called the character consistency, car physics, colour palette and sound design incredible, something nobody could have dreamed of six months earlier, but felt it needed story or a twist to stay memorable. Andrew pushed back: for a luxury brand like McLaren, maybe the data says people just want to see cool stuff.

“The only thing that I feel like this sort of thing is missing is story.”Chris Branch · ▶ 1:22:46

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19 · ▶ on the show at 1:25:00

F1 Toy Car Animation

By winga_CG

The piece that earned a round of applause. It starts with a toy Formula 1 car on a desk and keeps escalating: a ruler and magnifying glass thrown out of the window become a helicopter, and chalk pastels rain down. The creator, winga_CG, is Chinese, so it mostly reached the West through reshares. Chris suspected some traditional CG and, when the chat asked, guessed Seedance. He called it staggeringly good; Andrew loved it but found it a bit long.

“What an imagination this person has.”Chris Branch · ▶ 1:30:03

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20 · ▶ on the show at 1:33:51

The Birdwatcher (Short Film)

By Marion Brown

Marion Brown's entry to the feel-good AI film competition run by Curious Refuge and Epidemic Sound: an animated story about a bird watcher, something that fell out of the sky, and the reminder that if you blink, you'll miss the best ones. The chat called it enchanting, and California Girl Theresa said the main character reminded her of Up. Chris loved the style and the character consistency from scene to scene, and Andrew thinks cartoons like this will break into the mainstream first.

“I'm so happy that the AI video models can do this as well as photorealism, because I'm more excited about these sorts of things generally speaking than just photorealism.”Chris Branch · ▶ 1:37:37

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21 · ▶ on the show at 1:45:12

"Pi Day" Song

By Reid Hoffman

The curve ball of the week: LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman singing about how every number sequence is hidden somewhere in pi. He shared the full breakdown: Claude Cowork for planning, songwriting and lyrics, Suno for the music, Kits AI to turn the AI vocals into his own voice, Logic Pro for audio, Final Cut Pro for the edit, Runway and Nano Banana for images, and HeyGen for the animated Reid. Both hosts found it weirdly catchy, and Jimmy in the chat gave it 3.14 out of 10.

“He's actually using AI to make a music video and he's using tools I'd never even heard of.”Chris Branch · ▶ 1:53:40

SunoKits AIClaudeLogic ProFinal Cut ProRunwayNano BananaHeyGen

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