# Anthropic — Tracing the thoughts of a large language model

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.

- Code: EX-0042
- Kind: Explainer
- Format: Other
- Brand: Anthropic
- Length: 175.4s · 27 beats · 9.2 beats/min · 15 hard cuts
- Industry: AI, Developer tools
- Style: Flat 2D, Hand-drawn, Minimal, Morph transitions, Music-led, No voiceover, Characters, Slow and deliberate
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj9BD2D3DzA
- Full breakdown: https://cutmap.co/v/anthropic-tracing-the-thoughts-of-a-large-language-model

## The breakdown

The full breakdown has eleven sheets: Snapshot, Opening, Structure, Timeline, Rhythm, Look, Movement, Sound & words, Why it works, Production, Build brief. It is available to Cutmap Pro members at https://cutmap.co/v/anthropic-tracing-the-thoughts-of-a-large-language-model.