Gemini

As I mentioned in Gemini’s URL Context feature is 90% hype, 10% value, I was pretty disappointed with Gemini’s “URL Context” feature. But “Video Understanding”? That one actually works like a charm. How it works: 👉 Provide a YouTube video link 👉 Ask Gemini questions about the video 👉 Get a structured response back For poketto.me, this unlocks a really neat feature: users can save any YouTube video in the app and either watch it later or read a textual description of the video. ...

I’ll admit—I was pretty excited when Google announced that the Gemini API would support a new “URL Context” tool. The idea: you could “ask” Gemini about the content of a specific web page, with Google handling all the heavy lifting. The documentation even shows a neat example: send Gemini two recipe URLs and prompt it to compare ingredients and cooking times. If it worked, this would’ve been a game-changer for poketto.me: ...