Typically, applications where bandwidth is sufficiently limited to warrant AI heavy lossy compression are also application with tight latency and computational

Typically, applications where bandwidth is sufficiently limited to warrant AI heavy lossy compression are also application with tight latency and computational constraints. Not to disparage these results, but the area of very low bitrate codecs is more or less over, voice and audio streaming is a solved problem. In terms of relative bitrate you can do much better with AI, but it will have diminishing returns in the real world. On the other hand, I think AI-informed video compression will be absolutely transformational; it could enable practical transmission and reproduction of high definition holography (reproduction of an entire wavefront, allowing real 3D scenes viewable from multiple angles) that currently requires a small data-center to process.