Live AI video is doing too much lifting as a term. Here's a breakdown of what people actually mean.

The phrase is everywhere right now, but it's covering at least three meaningfully different things that keep getting conflated: Faster post-production. The model still generates a discrete clip, it just does it quicker than it used to. Useful, but this is throughput improvement, not liveness. Low-latency iteration. You can tweak and regenerate fast enough that it feels interactive. Still clip-based under the hood. Great UX, but the model still isn't responding to a continuous stream. Actual real-time inference on a live stream.