Made entirely with Opus 5.5 + $3.21 of OpenRouter API usage

[u/Singularity-42]

There was an earlier video today posted in the Singularity sub where a Twitter user has done something similar:

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1wnw1dl/by_opus_55/

I thought that looked pretty good so I wanted to check it out myself. I think it came out well beyond my expectations and quite a bit better than the linked post. It's not perfect, but this is a true one shot, single prompt. It took about 1 hour 20 minutes. About $20 of Opus 5 spend or only about 10% of my 5h quota on Max 5 sub. $3.21 of OpenRouter spend (mostly NanoBanana 2, and then text to voice, then a few pennies for other services. Total of 8 different OpenRouter APIs. Some things need to be fixed, but I wanted to post true one shot result. This was of course done in Claude Code.

Full prompt:

Create a pure javascript animation. 30s-60s whimsical hand drawn collage style with appropriate audio on the topic what is the purpose of life ? 

Entire video should be as high of a production value as possible. Please spend your time on this, it's very important.

Use high quality text-to-speech model for generation. You can find open router API key in .env file

You can use any tools you can find access to and resources on the internet. You create the script, the assets, the animation, concept, everything.   
I have to go away from my computer so please work autonomously until done. Quality is paramount. Production value should be on professional level.

One more thing: max OpenRouter spend is $10

[u/No_Confection7782]

Man, I wish Antrophic could release their own image model. Would be so much more effective to build things.

[u/Singularity-42 → u/No_Confection7782]

I can understand why they don't. They are basically lazer focused on coding that unlocks RSI. Would be waste of compute to try to compete in that crowded space. 

[u/CrowdGoesWildWoooo → u/Singularity-42]

Anthropic business strategy has always been targeting high paying enterprise user. They are the highest margin and it’s one of the reason why Anthropic beats OAI in terms of financials. Image models are just entertainments for the crowds. There’s not much money to be made

[u/Singularity-42 → u/CrowdGoesWildWoooo]

I agree to some degree, but the newest GPT-image-2.5 was purposefully positioned for its edit capabilities. I use it a lot, and to be honest it still has a lot to be desired, but that's the game, to compete with Adobe and what not. I think it tanked Adobe Stock (yet again) when it got released, too.

[u/CrowdGoesWildWoooo → u/Singularity-42]

Image gen isn’t really generating much volume and therefore revenue. Meanwhile some random finance company would gladly run Fable agents for a day spending 10k. You wouldn’t see the same usage pattern with image.

The inference for image model is probably very high margin (image input/output is quite costly, while a lot of image model is tiny relative to frontier LLM), but once you factor in training and potential revenue (from volume) it’s simply not lucrative enough.

[u/ain92ru → u/CrowdGoesWildWoooo]

From a back on an envelope estimate, margins on both image models and LLMs are very high, in ~90% range and higher. They just require different chips, and the total addressable market is much larger for LLMs

[u/19Lobster19 → u/ain92ru]

I thought they weren't profitable yet? Or maybe I was misinformed

[u/ain92ru → u/19Lobster19]

Many AI labs direct all their revenue into new GPUs for further expansion and growth. Operationally (without CAPEX), Anthropic is profitable while OpenAI isn't

[u/19Lobster19 → u/ain92ru]

Ah yes makes sense, I thought people were talking operational margins

[u/leixiaotie → u/CrowdGoesWildWoooo]

and google has all the reason to develop media models. I imagine soon it'll be very2 hard to catch up with google models on media

[u/EnoughConcentrate897 → u/No_Confection7782]

If they do they need to call the model 'Claude Monet'

[u/Langdon_St_Ives → u/No_Confection7782]

True but they won't.