Sure, that's being predicted for about 10 years now. I think it's far more than one generation away simply because you'd need a decoder everywhere, and that tak

Sure, that's being predicted for about 10 years now. I think it's far more than one generation away simply because you'd need a decoder everywhere, and that takes a boatload of standardization. JpegXL failed to gain traction and got dumped for instance. Best we can get next gen would be an experimental fork of x265 or some av1 codec with neural net baseline to improve on the defaut, like mkv was at first.