{"id":217890,"date":"2026-05-21T04:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/a-film-entirely-created-by-artificial-intelligence-was-shown-in-cannes-400000-went-to-ai-computing-power\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T07:35:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:35:28","slug":"a-film-entirely-created-by-artificial-intelligence-was-shown-in-cannes-400000-went-to-ai-computing-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/a-film-entirely-created-by-artificial-intelligence-was-shown-in-cannes-400000-went-to-ai-computing-power\/","title":{"rendered":"A film entirely created by artificial intelligence was shown in Cannes. $400,000 went to AI computing power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nashaniva.com\/en\/395737\">A film entirely created by artificial intelligence was shown in Cannes. $400,000 went to AI computing power<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nashaniva.com\/en\/395737\">https:\/\/nashaniva.com\/en\/395737<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-21 04:16:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"nashaniva.com\">nashaniva.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a summarized list of key points from the article provided:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI-Generated Film<\/strong>: The 95-minute action film &#8220;Hell Grind&#8221; is entirely generated using artificial intelligence (AI), created by a San Francisco-based startup called Higgsfield AI.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Budget and Creation Time<\/strong>: The total cost of the film was $500,000, with $400,000 specifically allocated to AI computing power. The entire process was completed in just two weeks.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI&#8217;s Role<\/strong>: AI generated all aspects of the film, including characters, locations, lighting, and even small props. AI was used alongside existing systems like Google Veo 3 to maintain consistency and uniformity.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Human Oversight<\/strong>: The creators emphasize that AI doesn&#8217;t replace the role of a human director. An understanding of cinematography and film language is still crucial for determining how scenes look and how they flow.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Process Challenge<\/strong>: Creating a feature-length AI film required maintaining visual consistency, which demanded extremely long and detailed prompts containing specifics such as image style, lighting, and physical laws.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Prompt Creation and Refinement<\/strong>: To generate the film, over 16,000 preliminary video clips were produced, refining prompts through multiple iterations to select the best 253 final shots.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Resource Management<\/strong>: To keep costs down, the team worked with &#8220;non-cloud&#8221; providers like Nebius and CoreWeave, avoiding more costly services from major tech companies.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Complex Craft<\/strong>: Despite its success in using AI, the production team concluded that the creation of a feature-length film remains a complex craft requiring numerous adjustments and a significant amount of work.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A film entirely created by artificial intelligence was shown in Cannes. $400,000 went to AI&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nashaniva.com\/photos\/generated\/fb395737.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-217890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217892,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217890\/revisions\/217892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}