Simular - 2,000,000,000 PCs sit on people's desks today. The next billion comp

Name: Simular - 2,000,000,000 PCs sit on people's desks today. The next billion comp
Uploaded: 2026-11-12T00:00:00Z
Duration: 1 min 25 s
Channel: Simular AI

Simular AI · Nov 2026 · 1:24 · AI-annotated

Length: 1:24
Scenes: 46 · 1.8 s avg
Product on screen: 0:15
Features shown: 5
Call to action: 1:12 · 85%
Voiceover: Yes

Simular AI’s 1:24 launch film runs 46 scenes, about 1.8 s each. The product shows up at 0:15 and 5 features are revealed. The call to action lands at 1:12 (85% in), over a voiceover. The video compresses computer history into a grainy archival montage, poses the next-billion-computers question, then switches to a flat cream graphic system where line-art windows and a single lime accent demo each feature in turn, with the founder bookending the demos. Pacing is fast at about 25 cuts a minute, with monospace captions typing over locked-off frames and lime corner brackets highlighting every key term.

Footage neededEstimated needs: 7 capture groups — your screens or recordings · 1 official logo — reused across the film · 19 filmed passages — shoot, supply or replace · 3 graphic passages — draw or supply

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1. HookLive action0.8s
  Grainy sepia archival footage shows a man in a suit leaning over a large 1950s computer cabinet, adjusting its controls. The shot is locked off with a slight film shake. A white monospace caption scales in across the center while the year reads in the corner.
  Cut → Cut · Static · White monospace type, the headline centered and scaling in, the year small in the lower left corner and static.
  Kinetic type
  Footage neededEstimated needs: 1 filmed passage — shoot, supply or replace
  - Text“1956”
  - TechniqueKinetic type
  - Text“Computers used to fill a room,” · scale
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2. HookLive action0.7s
  Grainy archival footage of a dim 1956 computer room, men in dark suits seated at large mainframe consoles with round amber screens. The frame is locked off. A white monospace caption scales in across the center, a small year in the lower left.
3. HookLive action0.6s
  Grainy sepia archival footage shows a close-up of a hand flipping toggle switches on a large vintage control panel. A white caption reads 'Computers used to fill a room,' while '1956' sits static in the lower left corner.
4. HookLive action0.8s
  Archival sepia footage of a large room packed with rows of people seated at early computer terminals. A small date label sits in the lower-left corner while a centered caption reads 'and need a team to run them.' The frame is locked-off and the text holds still.
5. HookLive action0.5s
  A close-up of a 1965 computer console panel, a hand sweeps across and presses rows of square buttons while a white caption sits centered over the frame.
6. HookLive action0.7s
  Archival footage of a 1970s computer room: rows of consoles and a few workers at desks, dim and grainy. A centered caption reads “and need a team to run them.” with “1970” in the lower-left corner. The frame is locked off and still.
7. HookLive action0.6s
  A close-up of a vintage control panel with two green screens and dials. A monospace caption reads 'and need a team to run them.' in the center, with '1970' in the bottom left.
8. HookLive action2s
  A dim close-up of a white wall with a recessed slot. A hand enters from the right and pushes a thin dark rod into the slot. A centered white monospace caption sits over the slot, reading the 1977 line. The frame stays locked while the hand completes the motion.
9. HookLive action0.8s
  Grainy black-and-white archival footage, locked off, shows a beige CRT monitor resting on a rack of hardware, slightly out of focus. A white monospace line types out across the dark screen while a small year label sits in the lower left corner.
10. HookLive action0.7s
  A grainy, desaturated close-up of a hand resting on a white wired mouse on a desk. A white monospace caption types out “Then 2,000,000,000” with a blinking cursor, then “landed on every desk.” appears below in faded gray. “1990” sits in the bottom-left corner.
11. HookUI0.8s
  A slightly tilted close-up of a vintage computer monitor displays a Modify Layer dialog with a table of layer names, colors and linetypes. White monospace caption text reads across the center while the year 1990 sits in the lower-left corner. The frame is locked off and still.
12. HookLive action0.7s
  A black-and-white archival shot shows a woman in profile at a desk, typing on a vintage desktop computer with a CRT monitor. White monospace text overlays the frame, with a small year label in the lower left corner. The camera holds a static medium shot.
13. HookLive action0.9s
  A grainy, desaturated office shot holds on a man in a white shirt talking on a desk phone beside a computer. A centered white monospaced caption overlays the line, with a small 1990 date in the lower left.
14. HookLive action0.7s
  Close-up of a person in a black T-shirt holding a smartphone, both thumbs typing on the screen. A thin white caption types itself out over the frame, reading Then 7,000,000,000. The background is a soft, out-of-focus outdoor setting.
15. HookLive action0.8s
  A silhouetted man sits on a ledge at dusk, looking at his phone against a hazy city skyline. White sans-serif text reads “Then 7,000,000,000” as the final digits type in.
16. HookLive action0.6s
  A desaturated street fills with pedestrians walking away from a static camera. White monospace text sits centered over the crowd, stating the figure and the closing line. The shot holds still while the crowd drifts forward.
17. HookLive action1.3s
  A high-angle locked-off shot of a crowded city intersection, desaturated, with pedestrians and cars moving through the crosswalks. Centered white outlined monospace text reads “Then 7,000,000,000 in every pocket.” over the scene.
18. HookTitle card1.7s
  Black background, centered monospace type. Bold white “7 billion” holds, then switches to gray “Then 7,000,000,000 / in every pocket.”, then to gray “The next billion computers?”. Locked-off frame; each phrase holds about half a second.

Simular - 2,000,000,000 PCs sit on people's desks today. The next billion comp, scene by scene

· 46 scenes as text

01 · Hook · 0:00–0:00
Grainy sepia archival footage shows a man in a suit leaning over a large 1950s computer cabinet, adjusting its controls. The shot is locked off with a slight film shake. A white monospace caption scales in across the center while the year reads in the corner.
On-screen text: “1956”, “Computers used to fill a room,”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
02 · Hook · 0:00–0:01
Grainy archival footage of a dim 1956 computer room, men in dark suits seated at large mainframe consoles with round amber screens. The frame is locked off. A white monospace caption scales in across the center, a small year in the lower left.
On-screen text: “Computers used to fill a room,”, “1956”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
03 · Hook · 0:01–0:02
Grainy sepia archival footage shows a close-up of a hand flipping toggle switches on a large vintage control panel. A white caption reads 'Computers used to fill a room,' while '1956' sits static in the lower left corner.
On-screen text: “Computers used to fill a room,”, “1956”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
04 · Hook · 0:02–0:02
Archival sepia footage of a large room packed with rows of people seated at early computer terminals. A small date label sits in the lower-left corner while a centered caption reads 'and need a team to run them.' The frame is locked-off and the text holds still.
On-screen text: “1965”, “and need a team to run them.”
Camera: Static
05 · Hook · 0:02–0:03
A close-up of a 1965 computer console panel, a hand sweeps across and presses rows of square buttons while a white caption sits centered over the frame.
On-screen text: “1965”, “and need a team to run them.”
Camera: Static
06 · Hook · 0:03–0:04
Archival footage of a 1970s computer room: rows of consoles and a few workers at desks, dim and grainy. A centered caption reads “and need a team to run them.” with “1970” in the lower-left corner. The frame is locked off and still.
On-screen text: “and need a team to run them.”, “1970”
Camera: Static
07 · Hook · 0:04–0:04
A close-up of a vintage control panel with two green screens and dials. A monospace caption reads 'and need a team to run them.' in the center, with '1970' in the bottom left.
On-screen text: “and need a team to run them.”, “1970”
Camera: Push in
08 · Hook · 0:04–0:06
A dim close-up of a white wall with a recessed slot. A hand enters from the right and pushes a thin dark rod into the slot. A centered white monospace caption sits over the slot, reading the 1977 line. The frame stays locked while the hand completes the motion.
On-screen text: “In 1977, few believed anyone would want their own.”
Camera: Static
09 · Hook · 0:06–0:07
Grainy black-and-white archival footage, locked off, shows a beige CRT monitor resting on a rack of hardware, slightly out of focus. A white monospace line types out across the dark screen while a small year label sits in the lower left corner.
On-screen text: “In 1977, few believed”, “anyone would want their own.”, “1990”, “Then 2,000,000,000”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
10 · Hook · 0:07–0:08
A grainy, desaturated close-up of a hand resting on a white wired mouse on a desk. A white monospace caption types out “Then 2,000,000,000” with a blinking cursor, then “landed on every desk.” appears below in faded gray. “1990” sits in the bottom-left corner.
On-screen text: “1990”, “Then 2,000,000,000”, “landed on every desk.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
11 · Hook · 0:08–0:09
A slightly tilted close-up of a vintage computer monitor displays a Modify Layer dialog with a table of layer names, colors and linetypes. White monospace caption text reads across the center while the year 1990 sits in the lower-left corner. The frame is locked off and still.
On-screen text: “Then 2,000,000,000”, “landed on every desk.”, “1990”
Camera: Static
12 · Hook · 0:09–0:09
A black-and-white archival shot shows a woman in profile at a desk, typing on a vintage desktop computer with a CRT monitor. White monospace text overlays the frame, with a small year label in the lower left corner. The camera holds a static medium shot.
On-screen text: “1990”, “Then 2,000,000,000”, “landed on every desk.”
Camera: Static
13 · Hook · 0:09–0:10
A grainy, desaturated office shot holds on a man in a white shirt talking on a desk phone beside a computer. A centered white monospaced caption overlays the line, with a small 1990 date in the lower left.
On-screen text: “1990”, “Then 2,000,000,000 landed on every desk.”
Camera: Static
14 · Hook · 0:10–0:11
Close-up of a person in a black T-shirt holding a smartphone, both thumbs typing on the screen. A thin white caption types itself out over the frame, reading Then 7,000,000,000. The background is a soft, out-of-focus outdoor setting.
On-screen text: “Then 7,000,000,000”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
15 · Hook · 0:11–0:12
A silhouetted man sits on a ledge at dusk, looking at his phone against a hazy city skyline. White sans-serif text reads “Then 7,000,000,000” as the final digits type in.
On-screen text: “Then 7,000,000,000”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
16 · Hook · 0:12–0:12
A desaturated street fills with pedestrians walking away from a static camera. White monospace text sits centered over the crowd, stating the figure and the closing line. The shot holds still while the crowd drifts forward.
On-screen text: “Then 7,000,000,000”, “in every pocket.”
Camera: Static
17 · Hook · 0:12–0:14
A high-angle locked-off shot of a crowded city intersection, desaturated, with pedestrians and cars moving through the crosswalks. Centered white outlined monospace text reads “Then 7,000,000,000 in every pocket.” over the scene.
On-screen text: “Then 7,000,000,000”, “in every pocket.”
Camera: Static
18 · Hook · 0:14–0:15
Black background, centered monospace type. Bold white “7 billion” holds, then switches to gray “Then 7,000,000,000 / in every pocket.”, then to gray “The next billion computers?”. Locked-off frame; each phrase holds about half a second.
On-screen text: “7 billion”, “Then 7,000,000,000”, “in every pocket.”, “The next billion computers?”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
19 · Product intro · 0:15–0:20
On black, a gray monospace question sits above a white line that types and rewrites itself, settling on bold “Autonomous Computer”. Yellow corner brackets highlight “agents” in the tagline “built for agents.”, then a hard cut lands on a presenter at a wooden desk.
On-screen text: “The next billion computers?”, “Personal Computer”, “Autonomous Computer”, “built for agents.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
20 · Product intro · 0:20–0:27
A man in a black SIMULAR t-shirt and glasses sits centered at a wooden desk in a wood-paneled room with plants and a warm lamp, gesturing with both hands as he speaks. A white lower-third card with a green accent bar slides in at the lower left to name him, holds, then exits.
On-screen text: “Ang Li”, “Co-founder & CEO, Simular”, “The next billion computers?”, “Autonomous Computer”, “built for agents”, “SIMULAR”
Camera: Static
21 · Product intro · 0:27–0:29
A man with glasses and a black t-shirt sits centered at a wooden desk, gesturing with both open hands as he speaks. Behind him a wood-paneled wall holds a red abstract panel, potted plants, and a shelf with a glowing orange lamp.
Camera: Static
22 · Problem · 0:29–0:33
A hand-drawn desktop window sketches itself in on a cream background, with a menu bar, three file icons and a dock. A cursor clicks the Projects folder; a second window pops open to the right and scales up to show launch.key, budget.xls and a small file.
On-screen text: “SIMULAR”
Techniques: Cursor demo
Camera: Static
23 · Problem · 0:33–0:35
A wireframe desktop shows a menu bar, three left-side icons, and a central Projects window with a grid of file thumbnails, the first file and dock slot in green. A black cursor hovers over the Projects folder, clicks it, and fades out.
Techniques: Cursor demo
Camera: Static
24 · Problem · 0:35–0:36
A browser window shows the California DMV online renewal page. The mouse cursor glides across the breadcrumb links while the view zooms in on the page. A small caption reading 'screenshot → guess → click' sits at the bottom.
On-screen text: “screenshot → guess → click”
Techniques: UI zoom, Cursor demo
Camera: Static
25 · Problem · 0:36–0:39
A screen capture of a vehicle registration form pans and zooms across the page while a cursor drifts over the fields. A small caption at the bottom cycles through the words screenshot, guess and click, highlighting the active step in a yellow box.
On-screen text: “screenshot → guess → click”
Techniques: Cursor demo, UI zoom
Camera: Static
26 · Problem · 0:39–0:43
A line-art neural network grows on the left as its parameter count ticks from 180B to 2T. A packet icon travels a dashed line that turns solid green toward a line-art monitor, where the computer label slides in and the caption scales.
On-screen text: “model”, “180B”, “params”, “computer”, “screenshot → click, one at a time”, “400B”, “2T”
Camera: Pull out
27 · Feature reveal · 0:43–0:47
A lime-green rounded-square icon with black scan brackets eases to center, then shifts left as the wordmark “box by Simular” appears to its right. The lockup is replaced by a wide white input field with corner brackets, where “paste this into any AI chat or agent” types out in monospace.
On-screen text: “box by Simular”, “paste this into any AI chat or agent”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
28 · Feature reveal · 0:47–0:49
On a cream field, a white prompt bar with corner brackets types out a setup line in monospace, its button turning lime green. It then slides up as a flat window mockup labeled your-box opens beneath it, showing tabs and files.
On-screen text: “paste this into any AI chat or agent”, “Set up box from https://box.simular.ai/install”, “Get a box”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
29 · Feature reveal · 0:49–0:51
A bracketed light command bar slides down over a flat browser mockup; the install URL sits behind a blinking caret beside a yellow button, while the window below shows tabs, a signed-in avatar, a file list and skeleton lines, with a black loading bar stretching across the content.
On-screen text: “paste this into any AI chat or agent”, “Set up box from https://box.simular.ai/install”, “Get a box”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Push in
30 · Feature reveal · 0:51–0:52
A flat inbox screen with tab buttons and gray text lines. A green-outlined 'logins' chip and 'signed in' pill sit at the right. The interface scrolls left as a 'files' chip opens a dropdown of three documents, and a 'your box · live' header slides in at the top.
Camera: Pan
31 · Feature reveal · 0:52–0:52
A flat wireframe browser window with tabs (Flights, Q4 budget, Inbox) drifts left on a beige field. Inside, a green-bordered list of three files and a green 'files' chip are highlighted, the list sliding in the opposite direction.
Camera: Static
32 · Feature reveal · 0:52–0:53
A flat browser mockup sits on a cream background, its tab bar, file list and gray text bars snapping into place from a slight offset. A green callout box labeled tabs highlights the right end of the tab row.
On-screen text: “tabs”
Camera: Static
33 · Feature reveal · 0:53–0:57
A Chrome window on a light gray background shows Google Flights. The origin field types SFO, an autofill dropdown lists San Francisco International Airport, the field completes to San Francisco, and the page scrolls to a world map before returning to the top.
On-screen text: “DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on box · no built-in computer use”
Camera: Static
34 · Feature reveal · 0:57–0:57
A browser window shows Google Flights, cutting from the empty search page to a results list while the top title crossfades from a small blue header into a large white overlay reading GPT-5 Astra on box, with a tagline fading in below.
On-screen text: “DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on box · no built-in computer use”, “GPT-5 Astra on box”, “Same model, 1.6× faster on box.”
Camera: Static
35 · Feature reveal · 0:57–1:03
Split screen compares two GPT-6 Astra runs under a bold headline. Left, a chat card runs a flight search; right, a black screen opens a green-framed Chrome window with Google Flights results. Time counters tick, the right bar fills lime, then the headline crossfades to a new line.
On-screen text: “Same model, 1.6x faster on box.”, “GPT-6 Astra no box”, “GPT-6 Astra + box”, “Already 4x faster on paper.”
Techniques: Split screen
Camera: Static
36 · Feature reveal · 1:03–1:04
A split-screen comparison of two AI models running a flight search in a browser. Below each, time and cost metrics update as the search completes.
On-screen text: “Almost the same speed, 78x cheaper.”, “GPT-6 Astra + box”, “DeepSeek V4.1 Flash + box”, “time”, “cost”, “18.2 s”, “$0.25”, “18.2 s”, “$0.003”, “59.2 s$,0.68,52.6 s,$0.009,52.8 s”
Techniques: Split screen
Camera: Static
37 · Feature reveal · 1:04–1:06
A cream data table compares three model setups across time and cost columns. A ghosted duplicate of the chart fades out from behind the bold title, then the green bars fill in and the boxed +3.7 s and 78x badges pop in on the DeepSeek row.
On-screen text: “Same job, three setups”, “median of 3 runs”, “time”, “cost per run”, “GPT-6 Astra no box”, “94.3 s”, “$0.99”, “GPT-6 Astra + 📦 box”, “59.2 s”, “$0.68”
Camera: Static
38 · Feature reveal · 1:06–1:07
A dark terminal screen holds a static typed command line and an orange auto-mode status line beneath a divider. A small Claude Code badge sits in the bottom-left corner. The frame stays locked off with a blinking text cursor at the end of the prompt.
Camera: Static
39 · Feature reveal · 1:07–1:07
A dark terminal scrolls in the background behind a rounded browser mockup. The mockup's nested view switches from one Resy restaurant search to two side-by-side tabs, Resy and Walmart, as the corner badge changes from Claude Code to Codex.
On-screen text: “Claude Code”, “Codex”
Camera: Static
40 · Feature reveal · 1:07–1:08
A dark agent interface displays a 3D-perspective browser mockup of a Walmart espresso-machine results page. The layout then shifts to a second panel with a left navigation sidebar and a tool card above the mockup, while a product tag swaps at the lower left.
On-screen text: “ChatGPT”, “Codex”, “Claude for Mac”
Techniques: 3D mockup
Camera: Static
41 · Feature reveal · 1:08–1:09
A chat interface slides from a light ChatGPT panel to a dark Claude panel. Each embeds a live desktop preview, the first a travel booking page, the second a San Francisco map route, beneath a main header with a Live badge and a Take control button.
Camera: Static
42 · Feature reveal · 1:09–1:10
A white phone chat card scrolls up over a dark grid background, revealing embedded live desktop screens, a map app then a spreadsheet. A small caption at lower left switches from ChatGPT on iPhone to Claude on iPhone.
On-screen text: “ChatGPT on iPhone”, “Claude on iPhone”
Camera: Static
43 · Feature reveal · 1:10–1:10
A flat application window centered on a dark grid backdrop opens on a LibreOffice Calc sheet with a pie chart, then scales down and swaps its content for a Blender 3D viewport holding red cubes.
Camera: Pull out
44 · Feature reveal · 1:10–1:12
A flat phone mockup slides down onto a dark grid, its screen showing a browser page with a live 3D viewport of a red gift box tied with a green bow. A white caption reads OpenClaw on iPhone at the top.
On-screen text: “OpenClaw on iPhone”
Camera: Pull out
45 · CTA · 1:12–1:20
A presenter in a black tee and glasses sits centered at a wooden desk, a closed gray laptop in front of him. He talks to camera, gesturing with both hands, in a warm wood-paneled studio with plants, a shelf, and a glowing yellow lamp.
Camera: Static
46 · Outro · 1:20–1:24
A lime-green rounded-square logo with a black bracket face and the wordmark box by Simular fade in on a pale gray field. Below, the tagline Give your model a computer. highlights model in lime with corner brackets, then swaps it to AI. The URL box.simular.ai sits beneath.
On-screen text: “Give your model a computer.”, “box.simular.ai”, “Give your AI a computer.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static

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