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Which AI tool summarizes YouTube videos?

Gemini does it free: paste a YouTube link into the Gemini app or gemini.google.com and ask for a summary, the key points or study notes, or ask it to find a video on a topic and summarise the first result (Gemini Apps Activity has to be on). On many videos YouTube's own Ask button, built on Gemini, answers questions about the video you are watching on Android, iPhone, a computer or a TV, in selected languages and countries. To work across several videos, add their links as sources in Gemini Notebook, which imports the transcript of public videos that have captions (a video under 72 hours old may not import) and then answers questions across all of them. ChatGPT or Claude will summarise a transcript you paste in. A summary is only as good as the captions, so check any number or quote against the video itself. Rule: Gemini for one video, Gemini Notebook for a whole course or playlist.

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