# Understanding AI: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-11-07, Understanding AI has 37,900 subscribers, 272,487 total views, and 45 videos. It ranks #1,490,325 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Understanding AI](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for Understanding AI is “Is this photo real? A hidden watermark knows”, a Short published Nov 5, 2026.
- These are Understanding AI’s 45 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Aug 21, 2026 and Nov 5, 2026 (33 long-form videos and 12 Shorts).
- Median views across these 45 uploads: 635. 22 videos are above that median and 22 below, and 1 is equal to it.
- Most viewed in the sample: “What is one word from an AI made of? 🤔 #Shorts” (61,040 views, Oct 24, 2026). Least viewed: “A chatbot answers. An agent acts. Here's the difference. #AI #MachineLearning #LLM #AIAgents” (58 views, Aug 30, 2026).
- Median length: 14:08 for 33 long-form videos; 0:52 for 12 Shorts.
- In this sample, Understanding AI’s consecutive uploads were a median of 1 day apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 7 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Nov 7, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Is this photo real? A hidden watermark knows](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/OSbMJYxrhNE/) | 2026-11-05 | Short | 97 | 0:53 | - |
| [Understanding Visual Provenance – Real or Generated?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/ZklirJjX-Bg/) | 2026-11-05 | Long-form | 3,951 | 15:55 | - |
| [AI Just Broke a 27-Year-Old Speed Limit of Computing #shorts](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/vEkESElY7Ds/) | 2026-11-01 | Short | 1,208 | 0:56 | 16.11x |
| [The Exponential Time Hypothesis, Explained – and Why AI Just Broke It](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/NW9MxVFDCEI/) | 2026-11-01 | Long-form | 9,784 | 11:57 | 2.32x |
| [How AI erases a vacuum cleaner from a photo – step by step](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/kbR4HtYEB4M/) | 2026-10-29 | Short | 111 | 0:52 | 1.48x |
| [Understanding AI Image Editing – Generation Is the Universal Tool](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/eqgjI4kN0RQ/) | 2026-10-29 | Long-form | 2,090 | 14:48 | - |
| [What is one word from an AI made of? 🤔 #Shorts](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/Ml2TzQ4GX9E/) | 2026-10-24 | Short | 61,040 | 0:54 | >100x |
| [Understanding Matrix Multiplication – The Math That Runs AI](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/q3xw2PZObU0/) | 2026-10-24 | Long-form | 418 | 12:48 | - |
| [Understanding Video Generation – Teaching Pictures to Move](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/6dvCHukn13k/) | 2026-10-21 | Long-form | 211 | 14:26 | - |
| [How does AI know what "it" means? 🤔 #shorts](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/kchylXj_FjU/) | 2026-10-19 | Short | 791 | 0:59 | 9.62x |
| [Understanding Transformers – How Attention Reads a Sentence](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/iN59u3P1lak/) | 2026-10-19 | Long-form | 13,131 | 12:18 | 1.84x |
| [Agent Skills Explained: How Claude and Its Agents Learn New Expertise](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/Is_VxRLqLck/) | 2026-10-17 | Long-form | 6,464 | 19:16 | 1.02x |
| [Understanding Text-to-Image – The Prompt Takes Control](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/fNeWGXbMdWc/) | 2026-10-13 | Long-form | 197 | 13:13 | - |
| [AI Wrote 722 Math Papers – Is That Real? #AI #Math #OpenAI #Lean #NavierStokes #shorts](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/21lvfwTmlyw/) | 2026-10-10 | Short | 296 | 1:00 | 7.39x |
| [Can AI Do Math Now? OpenAI's 722 Proofs, Explained](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/8lkelsSTUgk/) | 2026-10-10 | Long-form | 13,822 | 9:59 | 1.48x |
| [AI Visual Quality Inspection Explained: How Cameras Find the Crack You Miss](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/aEOL4ySwgdQ/) | 2026-10-09 | Long-form | 6,171 | 5:58 | - |
| [Understanding Diffusion Models – Creating Pictures from Noise](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/6w5CA_Eo5dA/) | 2026-10-07 | Long-form | 6,284 | 14:00 | - |
| [AI Ticket Triage Explained: How AI Sorts, Routes and Answers Customer Emails](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/gvPOqLrTUEM/) | 2026-10-04 | Long-form | 7,933 | 6:29 | - |
| [Understanding Object Detection & Segmentation – Not Just What, but Where](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/gmtJlE_GlJE/) | 2026-10-02 | Long-form | 611 | 14:08 | - |
| [AI Invoice Capture Explained: How AI Reads, Checks and Books Invoices](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/ZOO8gEQpOzM/) | 2026-09-29 | Long-form | 18,029 | 6:28 | 2.81x |
| [Jev Explained: The AI Model That Decides Instead of Writing](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/U1frblghiqE/) | 2026-09-25 | Long-form | 12,791 | 10:28 | 2.29x |
| [How AI Chatbots Actually Work (Explained in 60 Seconds, No Math)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/tfVZlaI5AUQ/) | 2026-09-24 | Long-form | 182 | 1:01 | - |
| [How LLMs Are Pretrained – Every Step, Animated](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/-B84kyok8vo/) | 2026-09-23 | Long-form | 275 | 15:02 | - |
| [Understanding Image Embeddings & Search – Every Picture Becomes a Point in Space](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/RDqIhctETR0/) | 2026-09-23 | Long-form | 19,583 | 13:17 | 48.35x |
| [Understanding Vision Transformers – Attention Comes to Pixels](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/D4848f7IVnw/) | 2026-09-19 | Long-form | 10,778 | 13:52 | 26.6x |
| [Understanding Convolutional Networks – Learning to See, Layer by Layer](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/k6aM5M3a3cg/) | 2026-09-17 | Long-form | 221 | 14:34 | - |
| [Understanding Images as Data – How a Picture Becomes Numbers (Full Series)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/EJeOBQZkn2M/) | 2026-09-10 | Long-form | 12,494 | 14:02 | 23.93x |
| [How LLMs Learn: Pretraining, Fine-Tuning, Alignment & RLVR](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/PZUlPcQqgt8/) | 2026-09-06 | Long-form | 108 | 5:56 | - |
| [Your AI has a 100,000-token window — and still misses the middle #AI #MachineLearning #LLM](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/Sh1tLZfR52A/) | 2026-09-04 | Short | 81 | 0:49 | - |
| [What an AI Can Hold in Mind — The Context Window Explained](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/gur0SjiE8O8/) | 2026-09-01 | Long-form | 401 | 16:47 | 1.32x |
| [An AI agent never touches the internet. Here's what it really does. #AI #LLM #AIAgents](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/b8pR9pDPiZ0/) | 2026-08-31 | Short | 68 | 0:45 | - |
| [A chatbot answers. An agent acts. Here's the difference. #AI #MachineLearning #LLM #AIAgents](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/bKIkv9PC53E/) | 2026-08-30 | Short | 58 | 1:02 | - |
| [Why 20 words prove nothing – and 200 prove everything #ai #MachineLearning #Statistics #education](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/v3-Go2w9e0Y/) | 2026-08-29 | Short | 320 | 0:44 | - |
| [The green list: how AI text gets its invisible mark](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/yXtr56Wh7gg/) | 2026-08-28 | Short | 259 | 0:45 | - |
| [AI watermarks add nothing to the text. So where are they? #ai #MachineLearning #LLM](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/V-nBHlS_EDI/) | 2026-08-27 | Short | 71 | 0:40 | - |
| [Understanding AI – The Animated Series](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/TK71k9kkdHA/) | 2026-08-26 | Long-form | 26,089 | 1:10 | 8.25x |
| [The Invisible Watermark in AI Text — How Detection Really Works](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/0jAtFkN6DFs/) | 2026-08-26 | Long-form | 412 | 16:11 | - |
| [Text Classification Explained — From Naive Bayes to Zero-Shot LLMs](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/2B-I_8PVi2o/) | 2026-08-21 | Long-form | 138 | 14:58 | - |
| [Finding Topics in Text Without Labels — Clustering & LDA Explained](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/WmbhnGGZ1cY/) | 2026-08-21 | Long-form | 405 | 15:35 | - |
| [How AI Agents Actually Work — Tools, the ReAct Loop, Memory & Planning](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/HBuCAz7h0Mc/) | 2026-08-21 | Long-form | 13,159 | 14:16 | 2.3x |
| [How AI Learns to See and Hear — Multimodal LLMs Explained](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/yRiG6HDLS9M/) | 2026-08-21 | Long-form | 5,690 | 14:53 | - |
| [Why LLMs Are Slow — KV Cache, Memory Bandwidth & Speculative Decoding](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/WOyjt80dkPk/) | 2026-08-21 | Long-form | 635 | 15:32 | - |
| [RAG Explained — How AI Answers From Your Own Documents](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/MHWX2rVd-lE/) | 2026-08-21 | Long-form | 5,767 | 17:53 | 1.8x |
| [How Words Become Vectors — Embeddings & word2vec, Animated](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/HCRUhjYGx84/) | 2026-08-21 | Long-form | 334 | 16:22 | - |
| [How LLMs Actually Learn — Training Explained, Fully Animated](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@understanding-ai-anim/videos/FDZurRu5rxM/) | 2026-08-21 | Long-form | 12,895 | 17:16 | 4.03x |

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