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Two AIs got $100 each to make a music video by themselves

Two frontier AI models, Claude and GPT-5.6, were each given $100 and access to video-generation models to independently direct a music video for Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson's 'Uptown Funk,' according to a TryAI experiment. The challenge tested the models' ability to autonomously produce a creative video with a limited budget and tools.

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Someone at TryAI handed two frontier AI models the same assignment: here's Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk," a budget, and a shell with ffmpeg plus access to every video-generation model on the market — now direct a music video by yourself. — Read the rest

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