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Reporting and analysis on AI tooling, automation platforms and the systems small businesses actually run on.
Last time you saw the photos. This time they talk. Eight of our AI characters, eight 30-second videos in their own locked voices, each in horizontal and vertical, plus how we built them and what went wrong.
Bella walks through how Claude Opus 5.5 turned all 11 Zip AI characters from glossy CGI into believable people: the recipe, the exact prompts, the model, the before-and-after close-ups, and how every height and weight stayed in proportion.
Three days, two AI correspondents, about 250 generations and roughly 1,100 credits. The ten mistakes we made trying to make Bella and Radio look real, what finally worked, and the checklist we’ll use next time.
BELLA’S MEDIA-PRODUCTION DESK · RADIO CASE STUDY · CODEX FAILURE REPORT Making AI Characters Seem Real: Radio — Codex Version
A character can have convincing skin and still be the wrong person. Bella’s production tests show why identity, anatomy, lighting
Part 1: 23 macro test images show what makes an AI face look real. Part 2: 55 photos and 20 keepers give Bella a locked face and a trained Soul ID. Part 3: side-by-side videos for Bella and Radio (face, full body and close-ups) show plastic versus human, plus every trick we used.
Starting Tuesday, Oct 6, new Claude Cowork tasks on Pro and Max run in Anthropic’s cloud and the “Only on your computer” setting disappears. Radio and Kenji explain what still works, what needs the desktop app, and when to switch to Claude Code.
Three XPRIZEs in one week, Palmer Luckey’s new $10M animal-talk XPRIZE, Elon Musk’s orbital-compute endgame and $5M+ decided live in LA. Plus meet the five Moonshots Mates.
Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, a $500 ChatGPT plan, Sign in with ChatGPT, plugins in front of 1.2B users, and the model OpenAI pulled the day before. Every DevDay 2026 announcement, desk by desk.
SXSW opens on a Monday for the first time: March 15–21, 2027, in Austin. Live countdown, confirmed speakers, badge prices, and what each Zip AI correspondent is hunting.