Summarize any YouTube video with your AI
An AI cannot watch a video, but it can read one. Give it the transcript and it summarizes what was actually said, not what the title suggests. The sample is a real transcript of 3Blue1Brown’s “But what is a neural network?”.
In the sample · recorded October 21, 2026
- Video length
- 18 min
- Words in the transcript
- 3,357
- Words per minute
- 182
- Timed segments
- 129
- Chapters
- 12
- Captions
- English, made by a person
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Video summaries
Why it works.
Ask an AI about a video without the transcript and it guesses from the title. With the transcript, the summary is grounded in the words of the video, and you can ask follow-up questions about any part.
Chapters and segments help with long videos: your AI can summarize each chapter on its own and point to the minute where each idea comes up.
Who uses it
- Anyone who wants the point of a long video in two minutes
- Researchers and students going through many videos
- Developers building summary and “chat with video” features
Real sample
What the tool returned.
Transcript of “But what is a neural network? | Deep learning chapter 1” by 3Blue1Brown.
But what is a neural network? | Deep learning chapter 1
3Blue1Brown
- 0:04This is a 3. It's sloppily written and rendered at an extremely low resolution of 28x28 pixels, but your brain has no trouble recognizing it as a 3.
- 0:14And I want you to take a moment to appreciate how crazy it is that brains can do this so effortlessly.
- 0:19I mean, this, this and this are also recognizable as 3s, even though the specific values of each pixel is very different from one image to the next.
- 0:28The particular light-sensitive cells in your eye that are firing when you see this 3 are very different from the ones firing when you see this 3.
- 0:37But something in that crazy-smart visual cortex of yours resolves these as representing the same idea, while at the same time recognizing other images as their own distinct ideas.
- 0:49But if I told you, hey, sit down and write for me a program that takes in a grid of 28x28 pixels like this and outputs a single number between 0 and 10,
- 0:59telling you what it thinks the digit is, well the task goes from comically trivial to dauntingly difficult.
- 1:07Unless you've been living under a rock, I think I hardly need to motivate the relevance and importance of machine learning and neural networks to the present and to the future.
Chapters
- 0:00Chapter 1: Introduction example
- 1:07Chapter 2: Series preview
- 2:42Chapter 3: What are neurons?
- 3:35Chapter 4: Introducing layers
- 5:31Chapter 5: Why layers?
- 8:38Chapter 6: Edge detection example
- 11:34Chapter 7: Counting weights and biases
- 12:30Chapter 8: How learning relates
- 13:26Chapter 9: Notation and linear algebra
- 15:17Chapter 10: Recap
- 16:27Chapter 11: Some final words
- 17:03Chapter 12: ReLU vs Sigmoid
Input and raw JSON
The request body we sent. Long texts and lists in the result are shortened for this page.
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"videos": [
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk"
]
}{
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"title": "But what is a neural network? | Deep learning chapter 1",
"channelName": "3Blue1Brown",
"channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown",
"durationSeconds": 1106,
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"text": "This is a 3. It's sloppily written and rendered at an extremely low resolution of 28x28 pixels, but your brain has no trouble recognizing it as a 3. And I want you to take a moment to appreciate how crazy it is that brains can do this so effortlessly. I mean, this, this and this are also recognizable as 3s, even though the specific values of each pixel is very different from one image to the next. The particular light-sensitive cells in your eye that are firing when you see this 3 are very different from the ones firing when you see this 3. But something in that crazy-smart visual cortex of yours resolves these as representing the same idea, while at the same time recognizing other images as their own distinct ideas. But if I told you, hey, sit down and write for me a program that takes in…",
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"text": "This is a 3. It's sloppily written and rendered at an extremely low resolution of 28x28 pixels, but your brain has no trouble recognizing it as a 3."
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"text": "And I want you to take a moment to appreciate how crazy it is that brains can do this so effortlessly."
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"text": "I mean, this, this and this are also recognizable as 3s, even though the specific values of each pixel is very different from one image to the next."
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"text": "The particular light-sensitive cells in your eye that are firing when you see this 3 are very different from the ones firing when you see this 3."
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"text": "But something in that crazy-smart visual cortex of yours resolves these as representing the same idea, while at the same time recognizing other images as their own distinct ideas."
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"text": "But if I told you, hey, sit down and write for me a program that takes in a grid of 28x28 pixels like this and outputs a single number between 0 and 10,"
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"text": "telling you what it thinks the digit is, well the task goes from comically trivial to dauntingly difficult."
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"text": "Unless you've been living under a rock, I think I hardly need to motivate the relevance and importance of machine learning and neural networks to the present and to the future."
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"text": "But what I want to do here is show you what a neural network actually is, assuming no background, and to help visualize what it's doing, not as a buzzword but as a piece of math."
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"text": "My hope is that you come away feeling like the structure itself is motivated, and to feel like you know what it means when you read, or you hear about a neural network quote-unquote learning."
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"text": "This video is just going to be devoted to the structure component of that, and the following one is going to tackle learning."
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"text": "What we're going to do is put together a neural network that can learn to recognize handwritten digits."
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"title": "Chapter 6: Edge detection example",
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"title": "Chapter 7: Counting weights and biases",
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"title": "Chapter 8: How learning relates",
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"title": "Chapter 12: ReLU vs Sigmoid",
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"scrapedAt": "2026-10-21T06:31:39.660Z"
}The fields that matter
What to look at first.
| Field | Why it matters here | In the sample |
|---|---|---|
| Texttext | The full transcript your AI reads. | This is a 3. It's sloppily written and rendered at an extremely low r… |
| Word countwordCount | Tells you if the text fits in one prompt. | 3,357 |
| Chapterschapters | Summarize chapter by chapter. | 12 entries |
| DurationdurationSeconds | Video length, for context. | 18:26 |
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Will very long transcripts fit?
The word count tells you. Long transcripts can be summarized chapter by chapter using the chapter list and segment times.
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