Adjacent Technology
Tech that isn't fiction generation but shapes the field — image, audio, video, embeddings, agents.
Clusters
Image generation
Broader image gen landscape: open-weight image models, image gen API economics, character consistency tooling.
Audio
Broader audio landscape: TTS, voice cloning ethics in depth, AI audiobook production, generative music for fiction.
Video
Where AI video is for fiction adaptation, Sora and Veo, why text will outlive video for AI fiction.
Embeddings and search
Semantic search for fiction, vector databases in fiction applications, recommendation in AI fiction.
Speech and conversation
Character chat technical stack, real-time fiction generation, latency budgets for interactive fiction.
Agents
Agentic frameworks in AI fiction, why agents are oversold for fiction, agent-driven world simulation as a long bet.
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