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Day 91 of 100 Days of AI

Michael Tefula

24 Jun 2024 — 1 min read

I finally have a Youtube video summarizer working! I’ve deployed the app with Streamlit.io. On the backend I’m using the Gemini 1.5 Flash LLM because it’s cheap and fast! The summaries are “chained” together using Langchain. A 20 minute video can be summarized in around 10 seconds.

I watch a lot of Youtube videos but sometimes I want to get a quick overview of a video before investing time into it. I’ll be using this app going forward to get a preview of content and also to get a recap of long videos I have already watched. Here’s an example output summary generated from this Youtube video.

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