Studio by Spotify Labs is a new standalone AI app that generates a daily briefing, podcasts, and playlists on your PC using chatbot prompts. The AI-generated content draws from your Spotify listening history, as well as info from apps you connect to it, like your email inbox, calendar, and notes. Spotify says its AI can also “take action on your behalf,” such as “researching topics, using a web browser, organizing information, and helping complete tasks.” Spotify Studio’s AI agent creates a daily podcast just for you Spotify is also launching AI-generated Personal Podcasts and allowing users to chat with podcast episodes. Spotify is also launching AI-generated Personal Podcasts and allowing users to chat with podcast episodes. Any content you generate in Studio, like a daily briefing podcast, can be saved to your Spotify library. It will be launching “in the coming weeks” as a research preview for users 18 and older. Spotify is launching other AI podcast features, too, like a chatbot available for Premium users starting today that can answer questions about the podcasts you’re listening to, such as finding timestamps for specific topics in an episode. Spotify recently began allowing users to save AI-generated podcasts from OpenClaw and Claude to their libraries, and next month it’s launching Personal Podcasts, which generates AI episodes based on users’ prompts directly inside the Spotify app. Spotify isn’t the only one promising customized AI-generated podcasts — Google has had a similar feature in NotebookLM since 2024, while Amazon and Microsoft recently launched their own AI podcast features in Alexa Plus and the Edge browser. Some users of the features swear by them as ways to quickly catch up on news or learn about new topics, but it’s unclear how many people are using them currently. However, unlike those companies, Spotify’s users are already coming to it for audio content, although not necessarily AI-generated audio. Spotify says its new Studio app is just for generating daily briefings, podcasts, and playlists, not music. I usually listen to podcasts because I want to hear what a show’s specific creators have to say about something. Would an AI-generated podcast of my next road trip itinerary be more engaging? Probably not for me, but if that’s your morning listening choice, Spotify is working to make sure it happens inside its app.
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