Overview
- TIME Studios released a trailer and the first short installments on its YouTube channel, including January 1: The Flag and January 10: Common Sense.
- The project is produced by Darren Aronofsky’s Primordial Soup with technical collaboration from Google DeepMind and Salesforce’s Slack platform.
- The series blends traditional filmmaking with generative tools and uses SAG‑AFTRA voice actors for historical figures.
- Episodes are scheduled to roll out weekly to coincide with the 250th anniversaries of the events they depict throughout 1776.
- Post‑launch reaction on social media has included criticism and calls for boycotts over the use of AI, while the creative team maintains it is a human‑guided experiment.