To summarize with AI, paste or upload the content and ask for the length and focus you want — then verify the summary against the source. Different tools suit articles, documents, videos and meetings.

Summarize text and documents

Paste an article or upload a document into ChatGPT, Claude or NotebookLM and ask for a summary — specify length and focus (‘three bullet points on the key findings’). For your own document sets, NotebookLM is grounded in your sources.

Summarize videos and meetings

For videos, paste a transcript (or use tools that read links) and ask for a summary. For meetings, AI meeting assistants transcribe and summarise calls with action items. Always get consent before recording.

Verify the summary

AI can fabricate facts, figures and citations with total confidence (a “hallucination”). Treat AI output as a draft and verify anything important against a reliable source — this matters most for medical, legal, financial and academic use. AI summaries can miss key points, overstate minor ones, or invent details, so check the summary against the source for anything important. Be specific in your request — telling the AI the audience and what to focus on improves the result.

If you find yourself juggling a separate subscription for chat, automation, transcription and image generation, one option worth knowing is a single platform that runs them together — osFoundry is one such agentic AI platform that consolidates chat, agents and internal apps in one workspace, with a bring-your-own-key model so you choose the underlying AI.

This article is general information, not professional, legal or financial advice. AI tools, prices and availability change fast — verify current details on the official source before you rely on them.