Google to teach Gemini AI chatbot to analyze videos

Google Gemini’s file upload and analysis feature will soon support video files. An analysis of the app’s preview helped determine which video formats will be supported when the feature becomes generally available.

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The Gemini chatbot already allows you to upload files and ask questions about them. Currently, these can be documents, files with program code, simple text files, presentations, spreadsheets, and other files with tabular data. The service can be used to analyze web pages and YouTube videos – you can also ask additional questions about them. Uploading video files is not yet supported.

In the preliminary version of the Google app 16.13.38 beta, Android Authority journalists found strings indicating that the service will receive support for uploading videos in 3GP, AVI, FLV, MOV, MP4, MPEG, MPG, and WebM formats. In other fragments of the code, there were also strings indicating that users will be able to upload multiple videos at once for analysis – although the total length of the video will be limited, and these limits will likely be different for users of the paid and free versions of the service.

Along with video support, Gemini’s data upload and analysis feature will also support GitHub repositories. This will make it easier for users to analyze code files using the chatbot. These features are not available in the current beta version of the app, and Google has not yet made any announcements related to these capabilities. But they may follow in the foreseeable future.