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  • Directed from a distance

    Prompt A video essay on why the Brooklyn Bridge took fourteen years to build, for people curious about New York history.

  • Miami's founder could not vote

    Julia Tuttle is often called the only woman to found a major American city. When Miami became a city in 1896, Florida law barred her from voting.

  • Porcelain Skin SPF 50+: For the eternally fair

    Sunscreen for the eternally fair.

  • Pilgrims Biscuits: Inferior breakfast

    Consider this a sign to stop eating that inferior breakfast.

  • The Great Molasses Flood

    In 1919 a molasses tank burst in Boston and killed 21 people. The first newspaper reports could not agree on the toll.

  • Why the US stopped making pennies

    Each penny cost the US Mint more than a cent to make, so in 2025 the Treasury stopped making them for circulation.

  • Arctic sea ice

    For 25 years, every September has had less Arctic sea ice than any September of the 1980s. One chart of NSIDC data shows it.

  • One spin per orbit

    Why the same side of the Moon always faces Earth: it spins exactly once each trip around Earth.

  • Test your smoke alarm

    Nearly three in five US home fire deaths happen without a working smoke alarm. The film ends on one action: press the test button this weekend.

  • Wren: Stand up strong

    Wren is the shoe that helps you stand up strong, even through the elements.

  • Be nice to Claude

    A drum and bass music video, shown here as its 30-second chorus. The song was made in Suno, the pictures in Nano Banana and the motion in Gemini Omni and OmniHuman. Claude wrote every motion graphic as code.

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  • Kia Telluride

    An ad for the 2026 Kia Telluride, made in two hours.

  • How to make motion graphics with AI agents

    A film that shows how it was made: an agent takes a prompt, finds the beats in the music, writes the motion as code and checks the result. Made in HyperFrames.

  • Do not disturb

    How different would today look if history's greatest minds were distracted by their phones?

  • The night before

    Sleep is so important it got its own ad. Watch and rest.

  • Cosmos: The advisors

    An ad for Cosmos, from an original script, storyboarded and produced in five days.

  • Cosmos ad 2025

    An ad for Cosmos, generated entirely with AI.

  • Cosmos for explainers

    Cosmos made this ad for itself from screenshots of the app: type any topic and get a 30-second video essay in minutes.

  • Cosmos brand film

    Moments from four of these films, cut together to show how Cosmos makes short films from real archives and data, with a source for every fact.

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  1. Type an idea

    Say what your 30-second video essay is about. Cosmos talks it through with you: the angle, who it is for, the tone and how it ends.

  2. Cosmos makes the film

    It researches sourced facts and finds real archive pictures and film on Wikimedia Commons, credited on screen. It writes the script, records the voiceover and scores it with original music.

  3. Check it, then buy it

    Watch the preview and check the direction. When you like it, buy the clean film.

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Learn to make and edit video with AI agents.

Follow along on YouTube as Brian Correa, founder of Cosmos, makes and edits video with AI agents, from the first prompt to the final cut.

Brian Correa
Brian CorreaFounder, Cosmos · youtube.com/@meetcosmos