# How can AI be used to summarize long videos or articles?

_Last updated: 2026-07-20_  
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## Short answer

AI summarizes long videos or articles by transcribing audio to text (for video), chunking the text to fit the model's context window, and asking a language model to produce a structured summary with key points, quotes, and timestamps.

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