AI Hosts

What is YouTube Labs & the AI Hosts experiment? In September 2025, YouTube announced YouTube Labs, a new initiative to test AI-powered features on its platform. Its first public experiment inside YouTube Music is AI music hosts, which deliver commentary, trivia, and stories between tracks — a kind of smart audio ‘radio host for your playlist.’ As of now, the test is limited to users in the US via opt‑in; not everyone will see it […]