AI movie recap tools look cheap until you price the GPU time
Everyone is building an AI movie recap tool right now. The demo takes 60 seconds, so the unit economics look obvious: charge $20, spend $1 on compute, keep the rest. Then you run it in production. A 2-hour film becomes 260+ scenes after shot detection. Each narration line has to be matched to the right scene, which means CLIP embeddings, a transcript anchor, and a vision re-rank when the match is uncertain. A 60-second recap takes about 7 minutes of GPU and costs around $0.2