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

AI generating title, description and tags with Mux Robots

Published on August 12, 2026

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

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri6 min readProduct

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 (about 1 month ago)

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

Walker Frankenberg
By Walker Frankenberg5 min readProductAI

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

Five video frames fanned out showing shot boundaries, each labeled with a startTime timestamp. Frames highlighted in blue are grouped together as a scene.

Published on June 25, 2026 (about 2 months ago)

Making it easier for agents to understand video: Introducing Find Scenes and Shots

Victor Boutté
By Victor Boutté5 min readProductAI

New in Mux Robots: Find Scenes turns video into structured scene data, powered by Shots, a new Mux Video primitive.

A dark-background chart showing two overlapping score lines — blue and orange — representing two shot detection algorithms. Two tall spikes where both lines converge are labeled "Shot change detected by both algorithms" with a double-headed arrow spanning between them. Three warning triangle icons mark false positives: an orange triangle above a spike detected only by the first algorithm, and two blue triangles above spikes detected only by the second algorithm.

Published on June 25, 2026 (about 2 months ago)

How Mux detects shot boundaries

Grzegorz Gronkowski
By Grzegorz Gronkowski4 min readEngineering & Product

Learn more about the algorithm behind Mux Video's newest primitive: Shots.

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Published on June 3, 2026 (2 months ago)

Protect your prod environment: New rate limit controls

Aaron Hedges
By Aaron Hedges3 min readProduct

New granular rate limit controls in Mux let you isolate dev from prod and prioritize the API calls that matter.

Illustrative graphic showing Mux Robots workflow nodes arranged in a connected diagram on a grid background. A blue tile in the upper left displays the word "Robots" in graffiti-style lettering. Connected nodes branch out across the grid, labeled with workflow action names: Ask, Find, Moderate, Summarize, Translate, and Generate (partially cropped). Nodes alternate between dark and light backgrounds, with blue connector dots linking them.

Published on June 2, 2026 (2 months ago)

Mux Robots Directives: less plumbing, more automation

Adam Brown
Walker Frankenberg
Phil Cluff
By Adam, Walker, and Phil6 min readProductAI

Attach automated AI workflows to your Mux Video assets at creation — no webhooks or glue code required.

A Mux Robot inserting a coin into a another robotic machine

Published on May 28, 2026 (3 months ago)

Fine-tuning a multimodal model for video intelligence

Joshua Alphonse
By Joshua Alphonse12 min readProduct & Engineering

We’ve been on quite the run for the first half of 2026. VideoJS got an upgrade, and Mux Robots, the new video intelligence layer for videos on Mux, was just released. There is one more project that I t...

camcorder, robot and a web page with video content

Published on May 18, 2026 (3 months ago)

Using Mux Robots to organize my archive of 90s-era VHS home videos

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri9 min readProduct

I created an AI video archiver agent with Mux Robots to watch and organize hundreds of gigabytes of VHS family videos from the 90s and build my own Youtube app

Four illustrated robots with glowing screens stand above a label that reads "Mux Robots."

Published on April 16, 2026 (4 months ago)

Introducing Mux Robots: Hosted AI workflows for Mux Video

Adam Brown
By Adam Brown6 min readProductAI

Mux Robots hosts AI workflows for your Mux Video assets. Summarize, moderate, translate captions, and more — no prompt engineering required.

Three dollar sign icons on green cards, each rendered in a different style: pixel art, flat, and 3D.

Published on April 3, 2026 (4 months ago)

Simple pricing doesn't work for infrastructure

Matthew McClure
By Matthew McClure11 min readCompany & ProductPricing

Simple pricing is great for consumers, bad for infra. What we learned building Mux’s pricing.

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