What you’re watching isn’t a lost episode of Tom & Jerry. It’s something entirely new.
This one-minute video was created by an AI, trained on just 8 hours of Tom & Jerry episodes from the 1940s.
No animators. Just a single, detailed text prompt describing the scenes.
The tech behind it is a new method from UC Berkeley called Test-Time Training (TTT). It teaches the AI how to keep the video coherent, so characters, motion, and story flow smoothly from scene to scene. That’s something most AI models still struggle to do.
Why this matters:
For the first time, a low-cost, home-scale system can generate a full animated episode with structure and consistency.
This means that old shows can be revived by fans, new stories can unfold in familiar worlds, and independent creators might start producing content at studio level. Legal and creative chaos may follow, but the chance has already started.