Govee Ceiling Light Ultra Review: AI Art Ain’t It

All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Gizmodo may earn an affiliate commission. For the past few weeks, I’ve had a big ol’ circle light on my ceiling that shows me AI art. It’s the Govee Ceiling Light Ultra, a 21-inch-wide collection of LEDs behind a piece of frosted white plastic that has all of the usual Govee excess—vibrant colors, patterns, and animated effects—but can also show images and looping animations, some that an AI system creates on demand. There’s no reason that I, a 42-year-old adult with joint pain, would want AI art on my ceiling. I have a family and pets to feed, bills to pay, and fences to mend. Still, like many Govee products, the Ceiling Light Ultra is a fun toy. And I do want more light in my bedroom, something the regular lightbulb fixture is bad at. The Ceiling Light Ultra, on the other hand, is very good at that. I’m not sure that’s enough, though. Govee isn’t the only company making big, flashy circles of pulsating, morphing color. One of its main competitors, LIFX, sells a nearly identical ceiling light, called the SuperColor Smart Ceiling Light, that’s cheaper an