I tested whether Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude can analyze videos - this one wins

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• Gemini can watch YouTube, MP4, and MOV files.
• Claude still can't process video directly.
• ChatGPT needs Codex help for deeper video work.

AIs do a fine job understanding text from prompts and documents. Most do quite well interpreting images, but what about video? Can your favorite AI actually understand what's in a video? If it does understand, what can you do with it?

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In this article, we test ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to see how well they grok the contents of videos, both from YouTube and local files. The results are surprising.

The tests

I fed each AI a set of three videos. One is a YouTube video I ...