AI Assistant

Vū Studio includes a built-in AI assistant that helps you find content, generate new media, and automate tasks — all from a conversational interface inside the app.

Opening the AI Assistant

Click the AI icon in the left sidebar, or press the AI button in the library toolbar. A chat panel opens on the right side of the screen.

What the AI Assistant Can Do

Search Your Library

Ask natural language questions to find content:

• "Show me backgrounds with ocean themes"
• "Find the Samsung launch video from March"
• "What images do I have with warm sunset colors?"

The assistant uses visual embeddings (AI-generated representations of each image's appearance) to find visually similar content — not just filename matches.

Generate Images

Request new AI-generated images directly from the chat:

• "Generate a futuristic cityscape at night for my tech conference background"
• "Create a subtle abstract texture in deep blue and gold"

Generated images are saved to your library automatically.

Edit Images (Inpainting)

Upload an existing image and ask the assistant to modify specific parts:

• "Remove the logo from the bottom right corner"
• "Replace the sky with a sunset"

Use the paint brush tool in the attachment panel to mark the area you want changed.

Generate Video

Request short video clips via RunwayML integration:

• "Create a slow-motion pan across a forest floor"
• "Generate a looping abstract particle animation in red and black"

Answer Questions

Ask about Vū Studio features, get help with workflows, or request step-by-step instructions for anything in the platform.

Take Actions in the App

Vū AI can now perform a wider range of in-app actions on your behalf and is more aware of what you're currently working on, feeding relevant in-app information back to you as you work. Ask it to carry out supported tasks directly from the chat instead of switching between screens.

Suggest Your Next Move

Vū AI can also propose something without being asked. A small glowing orb sits in the bottom-right corner of the app and lights up when it has a move worth offering — usually something that would otherwise take several clicks and drags.

• Where it appears — anywhere in Vū Studio except the Vū AI page itself, where the conversation is already the channel. Drag the orb to another edge (left, right, or bottom) if it is in your way; it stays where you put it.
• What it does — an idle orb is a quick way into Vū AI: click it to open the search palette in AI mode and type a request. When a suggestion arrives the orb brightens and its panel opens with the proposal and three choices — Accept, Not now, and Don't suggest again. Accepting runs the work for you and streams the progress inside the panel.
• Quiet — the toggle in the panel header stops suggestions from opening on their own. The orb still glows when it has one, and you open it when you are ready.
• The first suggestion — so the feature is easy to find, one arrives within the first minute of using the app: if you have not connected any outside apps yet, the orb offers Connect apps, which is what gives Vū AI the context behind later suggestions.
• Displays — when a suggestion involves a display or a wall, it names the specific display you are working with rather than referring to a display in general.

Expanded In-App Actions

The AI assistant can perform a broad range of actions inside Vū Studio on your behalf — creating and managing scenes, files, and assets, and automating most of the in-app tasks you would otherwise do by hand. If there's something you'd normally do manually while building or organizing content, you can ask the assistant to do it for you.

Supported action areas include:

Area	Examples of what you can ask
Scenes	Create a new scene, update an existing scene, organize scenes into folders
Files and assets	Upload, rename, move, tag, or delete media; generate new assets and add them to your library
Content generation	Generate images and video, edit or expand images, and save the results directly to your library
Organization	Group content, tidy folders, and carry out routine library housekeeping

The goal is that most in-app tasks you would automate by hand can be requested in chat instead. Ask the assistant what it can do in your current context if you're unsure whether a specific task is supported.

Context Awareness

The assistant is aware of the tools, pages, and apps available inside Vū Studio and of where you are as you work. It can surface relevant in-app information back to you dynamically — including links to the right tool or page for what you're trying to do — so the guidance you get fits your current context.

Clarifying Questions

When a request is ambiguous or the assistant needs more detail to proceed, it can ask you a clarifying question and present options to choose from, rather than requiring you to type out every detail. This speeds up creative workflows where you're working with tools and images and would otherwise have to enter a lot of text.

When an Asset Reference Cannot Be Resolved

The same applies when Vū AI cannot work out which asset you meant — for example a video request that names an image the assistant cannot match to anything in your library. Rather than quietly generating from an unrelated asset, it stops and asks which asset you meant. Point it at the right one (attach it, or name it precisely), or repeat the request without a reference asset so it generates from your prompt alone.

Voice Mode

Voice mode lets you talk to Vū AI out loud and hear it answer, inside the conversation you are already having. It is available in any Vū AI chat — the dedicated AI page at one.vu.studio/ai (click the Vū Studio icon to go Home, then click Vū AI), and the chat sidebar of a Vū Intelligence session.

Turning Voice Mode On

1. Open a Vū AI conversation.
2. In the message composer, click the microphone button beside the text box — its tooltip reads Talk to vu.ai (voice mode).
3. A voice panel opens above the composer. The microphone button stays highlighted while voice mode is on; click it again (Turn off voice mode), or the × in the panel, to close it.

Turning voice mode on does not start a different kind of conversation — it is the same chat, with the same history, attachments, and tools.

Speaking a Request

The panel offers two ways to talk, chosen with the switch on its right:

Mode	How it works
Hands-free	The microphone stays on and your request sends automatically after you pause for about a second. Speaking while Vū AI is talking interrupts it and starts your turn.
Tap to talk	Tap the microphone to start, speak, then tap again to send.

The panel shows the current phase — Tap the mic to start, Listening…, Thinking…, Speaking… — alongside a live caption of what is being heard, so you can watch the words being recognized before they send.

Whatever you say is transcribed and posted into the same conversation as an ordinary text message. It appears in the transcript as text, and it is answered exactly as a typed message would be: a spoken turn is a normal turn whose input happened to come from a microphone.

Hearing the Answer

Replies are spoken as they stream in, sentence by sentence, so you hear the answer begin instead of waiting for the whole reply to finish. Spoken answers are also shaped for the ear — short, one idea at a time, without markdown, lists, or read-aloud URLs — while the full written reply still appears in the conversation.

• The speaker button in the panel toggles spoken output (Speak replies aloud / Mute spoken replies). Voice input still works with spoken replies muted.
• While Vū AI is talking, a Stop button next to the phase label cuts the audio immediately, without you having to say anything.

Browser Support and the Text Fallback

Voice mode uses your browser's own speech recognition, which works best in Chrome and Edge. Where the browser does not support it, the panel says Voice mode needs a browser with speech recognition (try Chrome) and nothing else changes — the conversation carries on as text, and you can close the panel and keep typing.

On iOS, hands-free listening is not available: the mode switch is hidden and the panel tells you to tap the microphone to talk, then tap again to send.

AI Tokens

AI features consume tokens from your plan's monthly allocation. Generation tasks (images, video) use more tokens than search or questions. Monitor your usage on the Account page (profile menu → Account).

Team plans have a shared token pool — all team members draw from the same balance.

Buying More Tokens

If you run low, you can top up without changing plans. On the Account page, find the AI Tokens card and click Buy More, then complete checkout. Purchased tokens are added to your balance — for team profiles, they're added to the shared team pool.

Attachments

You can attach images or files to your chat messages for the assistant to work with:

• Attach a screenshot for the assistant to help recreate or modify it
• Attach a video for analysis or suggestions
• Attach a reference image as a style guide for generation

Asset Actions

Every asset in the conversation — and every tile in the Attachments panel on the right — carries a small action bar across its top. It stays hidden until you hover the asset, so it never covers the artwork; on a touch screen the actions are always visible, so a tap reaches them directly. From it you can:

Action	What it does
Pin to top	Keeps the asset at the top of the Attachments panel.
Reference this Asset	Attaches it to your next message.
Play this Asset	Casts it to a connected display.
View in Library	Opens the asset where it lives in your library.
Open fullscreen mode	Expands the asset over the page.

Resizing the Chat and Attachments Panels

On a desktop-width screen both side panels can be resized. Move the pointer to the inner edge of the conversations panel on the left, or of the Attachments panel on the right, until the cursor changes to a resize handle (its tooltip reads Drag to resize), then drag. Each panel keeps the width you give it.

Tips

• Be specific about the look you want — instead of "make a background", try "make a dark, moody industrial warehouse with dramatic side lighting"
• Use the library search conversation style for finding existing assets rather than using the search bar — the AI understands context better
• For inpainting, be precise when drawing the mask area — smaller, well-defined selections give better results

Uploading Files to Chat

Getting files into Vū AI is faster and more flexible. You can drag and drop files directly into a message, attach multiple files in a single message, and add PDFs and PowerPoint files to the chat context for the assistant to work with.

Drag and drop a file

1. Open a Vū AI conversation — either the AI search overlay in the top navigation, or the dedicated AI page.
2. Drag one or more files from your computer over the message input. A drop-zone highlight appears to show the message will accept the files.
3. Release to drop the files onto the message. You can also use the + button to the left of the message box if you prefer to browse — see The Plus Menu.
4. Add any text prompt describing what you want done, then send.

What happens on send

When you send a message with dropped files, Vū AI uploads the file(s) to your library and then immediately references the uploaded asset in that same message — there is no separate upload step. The assistant can then work with the real library asset directly for edits, style references, generation inputs, and other supported tasks.

• Multiple files can be attached to a single message.
• Supported types include the asset types the assistant already works with, such as images and video.
• Uploads honor your plan's token and upload limits, the same as uploading through the library.

The Plus Menu

The + button at the left of the message box opens a short menu with three ways to bring something into the conversation:

Option	What it does
Upload a file	Opens your computer's file browser; the file is uploaded to your library and referenced in the message.
Attach an asset	Opens the asset picker so you can attach something already in your library.
Connect apps	Opens the connections screen, where you connect the outside apps Vū AI can act on for you.

Choosing a Model

Vū AI lets you choose which underlying model it uses for a given task, so you can match the model to the job (for example, a different model for image generation than for video). By default, each task runs the model you've selected — you don't have to specify one every time.

Where to set your model preferences

Open vu.ai Settings and select the Models tab. (Settings also includes a Memory tab.) The Models tab lists each AI task and lets you pick the model that task should use. Your choices are saved to your account and persist across sessions.

Tasks you can choose a model for

Each task has its own chooser and a sensible default:

Task	Default model
Generate image	Flux 1.1 Pro
Edit image	Nano Banana Pro
Expand image (reframe)	Luma Reframe
Upscale image	Topaz
Animate image (image to video)	Google Veo-3

Additional tasks, including remove background and text to video, also have their own model choices.

Available models

The models offered depend on the task. Examples include:

• Image generation / editing: Flux 1.1 Pro, Imagen 4, Nano Banana Pro, Nano Banana 2, Seedream 4, GPT Image 2, GPT Image 1.5
• Video: Google Veo-3, Runway Gen-4, Pruna P-Video

Choosing a model for a single request

You don't have to change your saved default to try a different model once. You can name a model directly in your chat request (for example, "generate this image using Imagen 4"), and the assistant will use it for that request only. You can also ask the assistant to change your saved default for a task, which updates the same preference as the Models tab.