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Netflix will show you themed recommendations through a new ‘AI Discover’ tab

By · Via The Verge · Published by Everything Blog

In short

The feature appears simply as "Discover" on the top navigation menu of supported English-language televisions in the United States. Rather than standard genre lists, it groups content into contextual themes like "Family Movie Night" and adjusts dynamically using real-time subscriber input. Viewers can directly reject suggestions, enabling the underlying intelligence layer to continuously refine its selections based on audience feedback.

Key points

  • Netflix is utilizing responsive intelligence layers to address reports of diminished user…: Netflix is utilizing responsive intelligence layers to address reports of diminished user watch time.
  • The platform is testing mood-based and contextual discovery over traditional static genre…: The platform is testing mood-based and contextual discovery over traditional static genre categories on television screens.
  • Product updates are launching alongside broader corporate challenges, including slowing g…: Product updates are launching alongside broader corporate challenges, including slowing growth and approximately 1,000 recent layoffs.

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Netflix’s TV app is getting a new “AI Discover” tab where the company will show experimental, AI-powered featuresto help you find new shows and movies to watch.

Netflix will show you themed recommendations through a new ‘AI Discover’ tab

Netflix’s first ‘AI Discover’ feature suggests content based around different themes.

Netflix’s first ‘AI Discover’ feature suggests content based around different themes.

The first of these experiments surfaces content based around themes, like “Something Light,” “Family Movie Night,” or “Quick Watches.” When you pick a theme, Netflix will show you recommendations that match it. If you don’t like a recommendation, you can tell that to Netflix, and the app will remember it.

The company says that AI Discover is powered by “a new intelligence layer we’ve been building that responds to what members tell us in real time and keeps learning.”

AI Discover, which will show up as a “Discover” tab along your top menu, is gradually starting to roll out in the US to “members who use Netflix in English on supported TVs.”

The announcement follows Netflix recently laying off…

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