YouTube ramps up AI tools for video makers | News

NEW YORK, Sept 17, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - YouTube on Tuesday boosted artificial intelligence tools for creators, saying it has paid out more than $100 billion to content-makers in the past four years. YouTube chief executive Neal Mohan touted AI as an "evolution" aimed at empowering creativity and storytelling at the video-sharing service founded in early 2005 by former PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen. YouTube has become the world's most popular free online video service with billions of users since it was bought by Google in 2006. "New AI-powered products will shape our next 20 years," Mohan said at an event in New York City. But Mohan insisted that "these are tools, nothing more," and would not...