How AI-Driven Compression is Changing File Transfers in 2026

Let's be honest — how many times this week have you waited for a build artifact to upload, or watched a progress bar crawl while sending design assets to a teammate? It's a small friction, but it adds up. Traditional compression (zlib, gzip, brotli) has served us well for decades. But these algorithms are fundamentally static: they apply the same rules regardless of what's inside the file, or how it'll be used. That's starting to change. What if compression could understand your data — not just