What is AI Zip?
AI Zip is a revolutionary file compression software that leverages artificial intelligence to achieve much higher compression ratios than traditional zip utilities. It was developed by a start-up founded in 2019 that focuses on applying AI innovations to improve everyday software tools.
Unlike standard compression algorithms that use generic methods, AI Zip analyzes the actual content within files to determine optimal ways to reduce file size. For text documents, it identifies repetitive words and phrases to replace with shorter symbols. For images, it removes imperceptible pixel data based on how the human eye perceives images.
By using these content-aware techniques tailored specifically to different data types, AI Zip is able to compress files to a fraction of their original size, often outperforming dedicated text and image compression tools. Users report compression ratios over 90% for many common file types.
AI Zip integrates directly with Windows File Explorer for easy compression and decompression of individual files or entire folders. The user interface provides optimization settings to balance compression performance and speed. It also allows exporting compressed archives to share across devices and the cloud.