Prime Video’s new X-Ray Recaps feature | Image credits: Amazon
Amazon has just announced its recaps for TV shows will now be powered by AI. Other streaming services typically offer users the option to watch a short recap of a TV show they like before diving into a new season, but Amazon is going a little bit further with the newly announced X-Ray Recaps.So, first of all, Amazon says that Prime Video’s new X-Ray Recaps doesn’t contain spoilers. As a generative-powered feature, X-Ray Recaps is capable of creating short summaries of full seasons of TV shows, single episodes, and parts of episodes.
All these are personalized down to the exact minute of where you are watching, something that traditional recaps don’t offer. X-Ray Recaps provide short textual snippets of key cliffhangers, character-driven plot points, along with other details that can be accessed at any point during one’s viewing experience.
“With this context-aware functionality, Prime Video will deliver summaries of memorable moments and important plot points so our customers can quickly jump back into what they were watching or rediscover why they fell in love with a series in the first place,” said Adam Gray, vice president of product at Prime Video.
The new AI-powered feature uses Amazon’s Bedrock, a fully managed AWS service for building and scaling generative AI apps with foundational models.
Prime Video’s X-Ray experience | Image credits: Amazon
It’s also important to mention that X-Ray Recaps allows users to choose from various types of recaps, including summaries of current episodes, the season so far, or the previous season.