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Research notes, case studies, and essays on where visual AI is heading. This is where we show our work and the thinking behind it.

Aug 2026Case Study

When the world is code, you can check it

Every rock, wave and note in our 86-second film is written as code. How our agent writes the characters, boards the shots, builds them, and checks its own work.

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Jun 2026Case Study

We handed a CVPR-winning AI a game it had never seen

NitroGen plays games straight from pixels. Ours looks different but plays the same way. Zero-shot it flailed, so we gave it a tutor and watched it nearly catch up in seven minutes.

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May 2026Essay

Verification is not here for free

AI is great at math and code. It can edit a film, but not well. Closing that gap is the first step toward self-improving creative superintelligence.

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Mar 2026Essay

Why verification is harder than generation

The generation problem in video AI is largely solved. The verification problem has barely been stated. This asymmetry will define the next era of AI.

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