The Underrated AI Tool That Lets Any LLM Watch Videos

I spent this month testing the ways people actually get an LLM to "watch" a video. One of them got a 2,181-video stress test from a single user. Here is what held up. The three approaches on the table 1. Upload it to a hosted multimodal model (Gemini). This is the shortest path and I want to be fair: for "tell me about this one clip," Gemini is genuinely good. You upload, you ask, you get an answer. The trade-offs are structural, not quality: your footage leaves your machine, results vary…