Best AI for video
What 27 creators said they actually use for video, from podcasts and YouTube. Not benchmark scores. Updated Oct 18, 2026.
Short answer
For video, most creators use Gemini (13), then Claude (7). The model they name most is Claude Opus (5).
Top tools for video
Creators who use or recommend each"It can even use a skill that uses Gemini to analyze the video at a deeper level, like it can actually watch the video and decide where to make cuts."
"I think I've just been spoiled lately by Opus 5.5. I know, I know. Your GPT girl here has been using Opus 5.5 because for creative tasks, for design, for video, for art, it is just the best on the market right now. I'll do an episode in ..."
"I got very close when Sora 2 came out — I had a similar experience, short amount of time, but just mind blown by the quality of the videos, especially the weekend that Sora 2 launched when there were no restrictions on what you could gen..."
"The main advantage now is that you can just plug it into Claude Code and let Claude do the building of the pipeline."
"I might be the number one Codex fanboy in the world. I am constantly telling people, have you tried Codex yet? It is just my daily driver. I use it all the time and for some things that you and I both think are valuable."
"I drop in three camera shots, two pieces of audio, and I said, go make the podcast. And I just said that, I told that to ChatGPT. It connected directly. I'm watching on the screen. It's rearranging everything, editing it, doing all that ..."
"I've been obsessed with Grok Bot. It just does what you tell it to do. I took a clip of a YouTube file and said analyze this into the five most important clips and make me five clips. It took this Mearsheimer video about tactical nukes —..."
"Midjourney a lot. I'm a designer, so image generation, video generation is huge for me. So I use Midjourney a ton."
Models creators name for video
Most creators name the app (like Claude Code), not the model, so these counts are smaller.
Best AI for other jobs
How this works: we read every podcast and YouTube transcript we track and note when a creator says they use or recommend an AI tool for a job. Each creator counts once per tool. Sponsored mentions are left out. More about Followed.