These are interesting developments. We are seeing much interest in codec representations utilized in Generative AI applications. My specific exposure to EnCode

These are interesting developments. We are seeing much interest in codec representations utilized in Generative AI applications. My specific exposure to EnCodec comes from MusicGen, and my initial response is that some combination of the perceptual tuning of the codec itself, or the chosen quantization seriously limits the perceptual audio quality of MusicGen outputs. I have yet to use EnCodec in isolation, but its utilization in MusicGen does not showcase a perceptually lossless codec.