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Your's is a "featured snippet", which is where it highlights a relevant portion from a top result.
The AI results have the AI synthesize a new sentence or set of paragraphs answering the question using data from multiple sources.
They're different results because you didn't seem to get the AI search results. After making it available to everyone they've been hit with a bunch of weird results and have started scrambling to manually remove the particularly strange ones as they crop up.
This is what it typically looks like:
There is a lab icon which I clicked and I shows me this.
Then if I click the try example button I see this
I'm pretty sure they are just testing different UI presentations of that same feature.
No, yours literally says "featured snippets", as opposed to something saying it's AI generated.
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/9351707?hl=en
Fair enough. Thanks for not being a dick about it like some of the others were