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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.

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

Published on September 3, 2026 (3 days ago)

Use any* LLM with @mux/ai

Phil Cluff
Joshua Alphonse
Victor Boutté
By Phil, Joshua, and Victor7 min readProduct & EngineeringAI

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 (4 days ago)

An agent is only as good as its harness

Victor Boutté
By Victor Boutté8 min readProduct & EngineeringAI

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.

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

Published on August 26, 2026 (11 days ago)

Dev Talks: Building Automated AI Workflows With Mux Robots Directives API

Walker Frankenberg
Joshua Alphonse
By Walker and Joshua6 min readProduct & Engineering

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

Illustration of a video player interface showing a 720p resolution badge in the top right corner, with playback controls including a play button, scrubber, and settings gear icon.

Published on August 24, 2026 (13 days ago)

It’s one rendition. What could it cost?

Andrew Crowe
By Andrew Crowe10 min readEngineering

Why we kept 270p, added 720p, and let the data, not intuition, decide our basic rendition ladder.

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

Published on August 20, 2026 (17 days ago)

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

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff13 min readProduct & EngineeringAI

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

Step brothers movie so much room joke.

Published on August 10, 2026 (28 days ago)

The broadcast squeezeback, rebuilt with CSS Grid and WebVTT

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss11 min readEngineering

Confession: I did not care much about football as recently as May. But by the time España lifted the trophy last month, I was watching matches I had no stake in, still unable to explain offside. Somew...

CDN Picker

Published on August 3, 2026 (about 1 month ago)

How Mux chooses a CDN in 9.9ms

Mark Franceschini
By Mark Franceschini10 min readEngineering

CDN selection sounds simple: pick the best CDN for each viewer. But “best” is where it gets tricky. What does best even mean? Cheapest for the business? Fastest for the customer? Most reliable? Or, the...

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 (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.

React Symbol in a video player on a mobile smart phone

Published on June 12, 2026 (3 months ago)

React Native needs a new video player

Joshua Alphonse
By Joshua Alphonse10 min readEngineering

A new React Native video player with AI Video intelligence features from Mux Robots and the ability to collect video data with Mux Data.

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...

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