Anthropic — Tracing the thoughts of a large language model

Name: Anthropic — Tracing the thoughts of a large language model
Uploaded: 2026-10-09T06:33:52.614+00:00
Duration: PT175.4S
Description: A hand-drawn, music-led explainer with no voiceover and almost no copy. A black rectangle stands in for the AI model and morphs into a screen of linked nodes, a human head, a control panel and a branching circuit. A poem line, 'He saw a carrot and had to grab it', then shows the model choosing the rhyme word 'rabbit' before writing the line.

Anthropic @anthropic-ai

Other · Flat 2D · Hand-drawn · 175s

Length

175.4s

Beats

27· 15 hard cuts

Pace

9.2/min

Avg beat

6.5s

A hand-drawn, music-led explainer with no voiceover and almost no copy. A black rectangle stands in for the AI model and morphs into a screen of linked nodes, a human head, a control panel and a branching circuit. A poem line, 'He saw a carrot and had to grab it', then shows the model choosing the rhyme word 'rabbit' before writing the line.

ExplainerFlat 2DHand-drawnMinimalMorph transitionsMusic-ledNo voiceoverCharactersSlow and deliberateAIDeveloper tools

Cut map — 27 beats┊ 15 hard cuts · Click a beat to jump