Accelerating The Internet With AI-Based Media Compression

Photo compressed (centers of attention prioritized and masked) with Compression.ai Bandwidth has a knack for being late to the party. Back when the internet was still a research project at the Department of Defense, we needed floppy disks to make file sharing a reality between individual computers. Much later, when connecting to the internet meant sitting through ten seconds of agonizing screeching sounds before getting a connection, we invented MPEG and its MP3 format to cut audio files by 10x, enabling us to share music on the limited bandwidth available at the time. Then came MP4, with its ability to compress video files 50X, which opened the floodgates of video hosting and online streaming.