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The Mux Blog

We're a team of engineers, marketers, designers, all passionate about video and the work we create together. Welcome to our blog about video.

The Firecrawl logo in black on white and the Mux logo in white on black, shown as two overlapping cards connected by wires and nodes.

Published on September 11, 2026 (15 days ago)

How Firecrawl helps our sales team build custom product demos

Victor Boutté
By Victor Boutté • 4 min read • Product & Engineering • AI

A personalized demo beats a features list. Here's how we use Firecrawl to help sales build one from a single URL, tailored to each prospect.

A toolkit labeled "mux/ai" with logos of different LLMs exploding out of it

Published on September 3, 2026 (23 days ago)

Use any* LLM with @mux/ai

Phil Cluff
Joshua Alphonse
Victor Boutté
By Phil, Joshua, and Victor • 7 min read • Product & Engineering • AI

We've made it easy to use @mux/ai with Baseten or any other OpenAI API compatible LLM, including the latest open-weight models.

The Vercel logo in white on black and the Mux logo in black on pink, shown as two overlapping cards connected by wires and nodes.

Published on September 2, 2026 (24 days ago)

An agent is only as good as its harness

Victor Boutté
By Victor Boutté • 8 min read • Product & Engineering • AI

Why we built our own agent harness with Vercel's eve to bring Mux video intelligence into Slack and what owning that layer gets you.

Illustration of a delivery truck unloading a lineup of colorful Mux Robots characters, next to a yellow starburst badge reading 'FREE! 100,000 MONTHLY UNITS.

Published on September 1, 2026 (25 days ago)

Getting started with Mux Robots just got easier (and cheaper)

Lamia Chlala
By Lamia Chlala • 5 min read • Product • AI

Mux Robots is now available on the Free plan. And Mux Video customers get 100,000 free Mux Robots units a month.

Walker Frankenberg (Senior Engineer) and Joshua Alphonse (Community Engineer) sitting down and chatting.

Published on August 26, 2026 (about 1 month ago)

Dev Talks: Building automated AI workflows with Mux Robots Directives API

Walker Frankenberg
Joshua Alphonse
By Walker and Joshua • 6 min read • Product & Engineering

Learn about automating Mux Robots Workflows with the new Directives API.

Illustration of four rendition blocks — 720p, 1080p, 1440p, 2160p — each with an eye icon showing viewing time for that rendition.

Published on August 25, 2026 (about 1 month ago)

Track what renditions your viewers are watching: Introducing Playing time by rendition

Matthew Rehrer
By Matthew Rehrer • 5 min read • Product

Get insight into actual resolutions delivered with Playing time by rendition. Filter, spot patterns, and fine-tune your video experiences.

The Mux logo, a small cute blue drawing of a robots, and the Stream.new logo

Published on August 20, 2026 (about 1 month ago)

Domo arigato, Mux Roboto: stream.new's road to Robots

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff • 13 min read • Product & Engineering • AI

Mux Robots powers stream.new's video moderation today. See how it evolved from 2021 vision API calls through @mux/ai to get there.

video player with a frame of a foot emoji and content moderation exclusion

Published on August 18, 2026 (about 1 month ago)

Is this video mostly of feet? (and other useful things you might want to ask about your video)

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri • 6 min read • Product

Use Mux Robots to ask questions about a video. This is great for content moderation and for other use cases when you need to confirm that a particular video meets or doesn't meet certain criteria.

AI generating title, description and tags with Mux Robots

Published on August 12, 2026 (about 1 month ago)

How to generate the best possible title, description, and tags for your video content with Mux Robots

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri • 6 min read • Product

Learn how to use Mux Robots to generate precise video titles, description and tags that match your brand tone and custom tagging taxonomy.

Illustration of a blue and black robot character on a doodle-patterned background with a 'New!' label.

Published on July 1, 2026 (3 months ago)

New Mux Robots workflows: Better captions, dubbed audio, and deeper insights

Walker Frankenberg
By Walker Frankenberg • 5 min read • Product • AI

Generate premium captions, translate audio, pick thumbnails, and turn engagement data into plain-language insight with Mux Robots.

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