Lab sessions

A series of experimental collaborations with visionaries.

Through our storytelling platform and collaborations, we hope to harness human imagination and artificial intelligence to co-create the future together.
Composer Music AI
Shankar Mahadevan
Composer x Music AI

Composer unlocks new creative avenues with generative music tools

Grammy-winning artist and Indian film composer Shankar Mahadevan joins us in the studio to refine Music AI Sandbox, an experimental suite of tools for songwriters and musicians.
Songwriter Music AI
Justin Tranter
Songwriter x Music AI

Songwriter supercharges their creativity through generative music

Justin Tranter got in the studio to help shape Music AI Sandbox, a new suite of experimental tools designed to empower songwriters and musicians to express themselves.
Artist Gen Music
Jacob Collier
Artist x Gen Music

Artist helps shape the future of the new MusicFX DJ

Jacob Collier partnered with our teams to develop MusicFX DJ, our generative music tool that helps anyone create a continuous flow of music to inspire new music making.
Artists ✕ imagen
erikcarter
HarukoHayakawa
EricHu
ShawnaX
Artists ✕ imagen

Visual artists reimagine a classic tale in their unique styles

Erik Carter, Haruko Hayakawa, Eric Hu, and Shawna X endlessly reimagine Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by fine-tuning Imagen 2 to generate infinite images in each of their unique styles.
teacher ✕ LLM
DAN SHIFFMAN
teacher ✕ LLM

Professor helps create tool for creative coding learners

NYU professor and YouTuber Daniel Shiffman explores an AI tool that helps learners on their creative coding journey.
JOURNALIST ✕ LLM
CLEO ABRAM
JOURNALIST ✕ LLM

Journalist accelerates research workflow to investigate topics

Video journalist Cleo Abram tries out NotebookLM and riffs with creator Steven Johnson on memory retrieval, fact checking, and second brain workflow.
RAPPER LLM
LUPE FIASCO
RAPPER X LLM

Musician helps build tool to expand the lyric writing process

Lupe Fiasco uses AI to expand his rap lyric writing process. ‘Rap was born out of technology.’ Direct drive turntables, 808s, autotune, what’s next?
Composer Gen AI
Dan Deacon
Composer X Gen AI

Composer uses GenAI to enhance live performance

Dan Deacon creates a live performance using generative AI tools like MusicFX, Gemini, and Phenaki.
Students ✕ Sign
Language Recognition
Students ✕ Sign

Students use AI to make learning sign language easier

Students from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology experiment with AI to make learning sign language easier.

Meet our collaborators

Erik Carter
Erik Carter
Erik Carter is a graphic designer and art director running an independent practice based in New York City.
Haruko Hayakawa
Haruko Hayakawa
Haruko Hayakawa is a CG Artist and Creative Director based in Brooklyn. She aims to create work that evokes a sense of familiarity and nostalgia, especially for those who relate with her Asian-American upbringing.
Eric Hu
Eric Hu
Eric Hu studio is the creative consultancy and design practice of New York art director Eric Hu. The studio has an international reputation producing striking visual identities and imagery for clients operating in fashion, music, architecture, and technology.
Shawna X
Shawna X
Shawna's work explores themes of identity, creativity, and motherhood, often utilizing multimedia and public spaces as mediums for expression.
Daniel Shiffman
Daniel Shiffman
Dan is on a mission to share code with the world. (In a fun, approachable way.) On his YouTube channel, The Coding Train, he publishes "creative coding" tutorials with subjects ranging from the basics of programming languages to generative algorithms.
Lupe Fiasco
Lupe Fiasco
Lupe Fiasco is a Chicago-born, Grammy award-winning American rapper, record producer, entrepreneur, MIT Visiting Scholar, and community advocate. Rising to fame in 2006, following the success of his debut album, Food & Liquor, Lupe has released eight acclaimed studio albums. We partnered with Lupe to see how AI might expand a rapper’s lyric writing process.
Jacob Collier
Jacob Collier
Jacob Collier is a celebrated singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist known for his genre-bending music and innovative approach to harmony and rhythm. He has won six GRAMMY awards, including one for each of his first four albums, and has collaborated with a diverse range of artists, from Coldplay to SZA to Hans Zimmer. His latest album, "Djesse Vol. 4," concludes his ambitious quadrilogy and features a massive chorus of voices recorded from his global fanbase - and is GRAMMY nominated for Album of the Year.
Justin Tranter
Justin Tranter
Justin Tranter is an American singer-songwriter and activist who has written chart-topping hits for over 100 artists, including Justin Bieber, Chappell Roan, Selena Gomez and more.
Cleo Abram
Cleo Abram
Cleo Abram is a video journalist who produces Huge If True, an optimistic show about science and technology. Huge If True is an antidote to the doom and gloom, helping a wide audience see better futures they can help build. In each episode, Cleo dives deep into one innovation that could shape the future. We partnered with her to explore how NotebookLM could accelerate her research process.
Dan Deacon
Dan Deacon
Dan Deacon is a Baltimore-based recording artist and performer renowned for his five studio albums of innovative electronic music, his live performances in both contemporary and classical settings, and his extensive body of work in film scores.