Conversational Voice Interaction

Search Live enables real-time back-and-forth spoken dialogue with Google’s AI (Gemini) directly in the Search mobile app—no typing required.

Audio Responses on the Go

Users tap the “Live” icon in AI Mode to ask questions out loud and receive AI-generated spoken answers—perfect for multitasking.

Visual Context Coming Soon

Camera-based search (pointing your phone at objects) is on the way to being integrated into the Voice mode, enabling context-aware visual queries.

Persistent History & Multitasking

Conversations are saved within AI Mode history and remain active even while switching between apps. Plus, you can view transcripts and type follow-ups.

Part of a Broader AI Search Shift

Search Live complements Google’s wider AI strategy—including Audio Overviews, Deep Search, and Agent Mode—and follows similar voice-centric advances from ChatGPT and Apple.

Hybrid Production Pipeline

Ancestra integrates practical live-action with AI-generated visuals: Gemini and Imagen for concept imagery, and Veo for animated sequences, enabling scenes that are otherwise technically or emotionally complex.

Highly Personal Visual Storytelling

McNitt drew from her birth photos to craft the film’s AI-generated baby imagery, emphasizing authenticity and emotional resonance.

Technical Innovations in Veo

To match AI imagery with live shots, Google DeepMind enhanced Veo’s capabilities for motion matching, personalized content, and seamless blending, addressing critical filmmaking control challenges.

Creative Limitations & Narrative Trade-offs

Critics argue that generative AI shaped the film’s writing and shot selection, leading to a somewhat generic, stock‑footage aesthetic that may lack depth and distinctiveness.

Ethical & Industry Impact

Though faster and cost-effective—especially for complex shots like newborns—AI reliance raises industry concerns about job displacement among VFX artists, storyboarders, and concept creators.

🔧 Modular

Modular is an AI infrastructure company reimagining how developers build and deploy AI systems. It offers a unified programming platform designed to replace complex ML pipelines with efficient, composable components. At the core is Mojo, a new programming language that combines the performance of C with Python's usability- ideal for ML engineers who want speed without sacrificing flexibility. Modular simplifies AI deployment across devices and helps organizations unify their model lifecycle.

🛍️ WiziShop

WiziShop is an AI-powered eCommerce website builder focused on simplicity and sales. What makes it quirky? It integrates GPT to auto-generate product descriptions, SEO-optimized content, and blog posts in seconds. Aimed at entrepreneurs and dropshippers, it removes the friction of launching an online store while maintaining a professional look and feel. Users can go from idea to a fully functional store, with content, without writing a single line of code or copy.

💾 Pure Storage AI

Pure Storage offers cutting-edge storage infrastructure optimized for AI and ML workloads. While not an AI model itself, its quirk lies in how it accelerates AI pipelines, especially for large-scale data environments. With solutions like FlashBlade and AIRI (AI-Ready Infrastructure), Pure Storage enables faster data access, streamlined training loops, and real-time analytics, making it a behind-the-scenes powerhouse for AI operations in research, finance, and autonomous systems.

🧠 Paperspace

Paperspace is a cloud platform that gives developers access to GPU-powered virtual machines for AI development. Its standout feature is Gradient- a tool that simplifies building, training, and deploying deep learning models. Users can spin up Jupyter notebooks with one click, run experiments, and deploy models as APIs with minimal effort. Ideal for students, startups, and data scientists, Paperspace removes the technical hurdles of AI development, all from the browser.

🎧 Noise 

Noise is an experimental social platform that blends Web3 and AI to reinvent how people connect and collaborate online. Unlike traditional social media, Noise encourages spontaneous voice-based interactions and ephemeral content driven by AI-personalized discovery. Its quirky appeal lies in how it mixes AI-enhanced group chats with decentralized ownership, giving users more control and creativity in social networking. Think of it as Discord meets Clubhouse—reimagined with AI and crypto layers.

📊 Aryng 

Aryng is a data science consultancy and training platform that empowers non-technical teams to harness AI and analytics in decision-making. It's unique spin? Aryng’s BADIR framework (Business question, Analysis plan, Data collection, Insights, and Recommendations) helps demystify AI projects and bring real business impact without the jargon. The platform is quirky in its ability to turn marketers, HR leaders, and sales teams into mini data scientists, with zero coding required.

🧪 Toilabs

Toilabs develops AI-first products that combine creativity, tech, and automation to solve niche digital problems. From AI-powered content generation to automation tools for e-commerce and branding, their products often operate at the quirky intersection of utility and novelty. One standout is their suite of GPT-based tools that help marketers auto-generate taglines, value props, and even entire landing pages on the fly, making branding fun and fast.

🌐 AI Planet 

AI Planet (formerly DPhi) is a community-driven platform that brings together AI learners, practitioners, and organizations to crowdsource solutions for real-world challenges. Its quirky edge? It transforms AI learning into a gamified experience with community challenges, hackathons, and open datasets. Participants not only learn by doing but also contribute to causes like climate analysis or medical diagnostics, making it one of the most collaborative and impactful platforms in the AI ecosystem.