Spotify’s new AI app can generate daily briefings and personalized podcasts for you

Studio by Spotify Labs uses AI to build personal podcasts and briefings around your day.

By Manisha Priyadarshini Published May 21, 2026

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A month ago, Spotify let you build a podcast playlist with just a prompt. Now it wants to skip the playlist entirely and generate the podcast itself. Studio by Spotify Labs is a new standalone desktop app that uses AI to create personal podcasts, daily briefings, and playlists built entirely around your life.

We’re introducing Studio by Spotify Labs, a new app that can create personalized podcasts, playlists, and daily audio briefings from a simple prompt 💚 pic.twitter.com/uOfhHxO2B6
— Spotify News (@SpotifyNews) May 21, 2026

It pulls from your Spotify listening history across music, podcasts, and audiobooks, and with your permission. It can also tap into your calendar, inbox, and notes to make content that actually fits your day. Studio is launching as a Research Preview in over 20 markets for users aged 18 and above, coming in the next few weeks.

What can Studio by Spotify Labs actually do?

The app is conversational, meaning you talk to it like a chatbot and it builds audio around your request. You could ask it to create a daily briefing for a road trip using your bookings and calendar, recommend a dinner spot along the route, and wrap up with a podcast you would enjoy on the drive.

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The AI agent behind it can also browse the web and pull real-time information, like current news, trends, or local recommendations, to shape what it creates. Everything generated in Studio saves directly to your Spotify library and syncs across your devices, so it moves with you from your desktop to your commute.

Importantly, what you create is private and not available publicly. Spotify is clear that this is an early preview and the AI can make mistakes, so it encourages users to review outputs before relying on them.

How does this compare to what is already out there?

Google’s NotebookLM has been doing AI-generated podcasts since 2024, and Amazon and Microsoft have since launched similar features in Alexa Plus and the Edge browser. Spotify’s edge is that its users are already there for audio, which gives Studio a more natural home than a notes app or a browser.

The launch also follows Spotify’s recently released ‘Save to Spotify’ tool for developers who use Claude Code or OpenClaw to generate personal podcasts. Studio brings the same capability to everyone else, without any coding.

Manisha Priyadarshini

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Manisha Priyadarshini is a tech and entertainment writer with over nine years of editorial experience.

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