.svml
Source, not state.
Before pixels, there is readable source. Every render keeps the reason behind the frame.
HYPIT AI · SHENZHEN · 2026
VIDEO AS SOURCE / 001
Narratage turns narrative into source code — readable by people, executable by agents.
00 / THESIS
A video should not collapse into a timeline.
A timeline remembers operations, not intent. Narratage records why first, then resolves when, where and how an idea appears. The same narrative source can be inspected, revised and compiled again.
01 / MATERIALS
WHAT WE ARE BUILDING.
HOOK[]
Meaning owns time.
Hooks bind intent to narrative anchors. Change one idea without breaking the whole film.
R→
SOURCE IN. WORK OUT.
Whiteboard language enters the compiler. What leaves must be visible, editable and ready to render again.
02 / FIELD NOTES
NOT CAMPAIGN SHOTS. WORKING FRAMES.
“Video language” on one board; SVML, Hook and LLM diagrams on another. Around them: a shared table, several laptops, and one founder portrait that refused to look like a founder portrait.
The board asks for a high-level video language: developer-readable, editing-free and built to scale.
Intent, raw material, edit, overlay; Hook, encoders and an LLM — the system drawn before it was typeset.
Not a team portrait: one table, several laptops, everyone already inside the work.
Alvin · founder. Fries, iced tea, and a portrait with no attempt to look official.
03—06 / COMPILER JOURNEY
SCROLL DRIVEN / 4 STAGES
The compiler journey
- 3.0
WRITE
Write the intent.
Agents author narrative source instead of dragging a timeline they cannot see.SOURCE / 01 - 4.0
ANCHOR
Bind meaning to time.
Narrative anchors give effects and assets a semantic home, not a brittle timestamp.HOOK / 14 - 5.0
GRAPH
Resolve the graph.
Content, layout and timing stay separate until the compiler resolves their relationships.DAG / 88 - 6.0
COMPILE
Ship the world.
One durable source becomes frames, motion and sound — ready to inspect, revise and render again.OUTPUT / ∞
07 / PEOPLE
00
Average age 20. As the founder, I’m the one dragging it up.
AVERAGE AGE: 20. BUILDING VIDEO AS A LANGUAGE.
Seven people, from a 16-year-old high-school builder to multimodal researchers, infrastructure engineers, product designers and serial founders. No departmental relay race: language, product, content and distribution stay around the same source.
Alvin
陈昱东Founder
Peking University, class of 2025
PKU class of 2025 · serial AI founder · a side project at 1.3k GitHub stars without a launch or paid distribution.
Kashorin
金群琳Multimodal research · AI content
Tsinghua University, CS, class of 2022
Tsinghua CS · KEG and Zhipu multimodal research · built a 300k-follower AI persona in two months.
laurunshen
刘润生Backend · infrastructure
South China University of Technology
Tencent and ByteDance backend · mini-program foundations, test infrastructure and service reliability · TikTok shop operator.
Eva
王毓凝Product experience · design
M.S. Information Science, Cornell · B.A. Design & Psychology, Pratt
Cornell Information Science · Pratt design and psychology · AI product design, jewelry factories and hands-on sales.
wjsoj
卫家燊AI-native design & frontend
Peking University, School of Physics, class of 2022
PKU Physics · PHYBench co-first author · Clab core developer · long-time open-source contributor.
rpone
鲨鱼Intern · AI video & agentic workflow
Independent developer, 18
18 · six years running creator channels · seven million-view videos · turns production into agentic workflows.
Seraphina
唐艺Marketing
High school student, 16
16 · built a web product used 100k+ times in one week · now preparing and running Hypit marketing.