Amazon’s Prime Video is getting a new generative AI-powered feature to help catch you up on a show. The new tool, called X-Ray Recaps, can create text summaries of “of full seasons of TV shows, single episodes, and even pieces of episodes,” the company says in a blog post.

X-Ray Recaps builds on Prime Video's existing X-Ray feature, which provides viewers with additional information about the show or movie, like trivia, cast details, soundtrack information, and production insights. You can access the X-Ray feature by pausing whatever you're watching and finding it in the menu at the bottom of the screen.

Using custom Amazon AI models trained on the video segments, subtitles and dialogue of the Prime Video library, it can create descriptions of key events, places, times and even conversations. It then applies guardrails to ensure it is spoiler-free and easy to read at a distance.

Amazon has turned to AI to create recaps for TV shows on Prime Video — starting with its own original series — in a way the company claims won’t risk revealing spoilers. On Monday, Amazon announced X-Ray Recaps on Prime Video,

X-Ray Recap for an episode of Upload. Image source: Prime Video Amazon Bedrock, which is an AWS service for building and scaling generative AI apps, powers the new feature. X-Ray Recaps utilize a combination of Bedrock models and custom AI models trained ...

Have you ever started a show, stopped mid-season and then struggled to get back into it because you have no idea exactly where you stopped watching or what was going on? Amazon just might have you covered.

One cool feature that's relatively unique to Amazon Prime Video is the streamer's X-Ray feature, which pops up the name of an actor or the music you're currently hearing or seeing on screen when you pause the show.

You’ll be able to find these recaps in the X-Ray section, which is the little sidebar that comes up on Prime Video content that shows cast information, production trivia, and the like. Starting on Monday,