Amazon Prime Video Adds An AI Streaming Feature You're Going To Love

The days of desperately scrolling through fan wikis and/or skimming episode summaries to remember who shot whom in the Season 2 finale could very well be coming to an end. Amazon Prime Video has unveiled a new feature called Video Recaps that leverages AI to produce cinematic, full-fledged video recaps for television series. This tool tacks onto last year's X-Ray Recaps feature, which provided static text summaries.

At its core, the Video Recaps AI model is designed to perform deep narrative analysis. It scans an entire season’s worth of content, identifying the most critical plot points, character arcs, and cliffhangers that it deems essential for viewers as they jump into the next episode or installment. Once the key narrative structure is established, the AI selects the most visually compelling clips and sequences and stitches them together into a montage. Crucially, it syncs ...