November 2025 — A global infrastructure company puts an independent AI filmmaker at the centre of a conversation about creative freedom and the future of storytelling.
Cloudflare, whose infrastructure handles a significant share of global internet traffic, launched AI Avenue as a video series exploring how artificial intelligence is reshaping the way people work and create. Episode 4, focused on machine learning and creative authorship, features Carlo De Togni of Mondo Novo alongside Amanda Askell, lead on the alignment and reinforcement learning team at Anthropic.
The interview traces the origins of Mondo Novo’s practice — starting in 2022 with early generative tools, when producing a single second of animation required hours of work — and the shift toward a process built around embracing the unexpected: a non-linear creative method where AI opens possibilities that a conventional production pipeline would foreclose.
On the opportunity for brands and institutions, the conversation lands on a precise point: the real shift happens when organisations stop treating AI as a cost-cutting tool and start seeing it as a way to reach new audiences and develop formats that didn’t exist before.
More information: https://aiavenue.show/