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Yelp is creating its own AI videos about restaurants

Jay Peters

created: July 29, 2025, 3 p.m. | updated: July 29, 2025, 8:36 p.m.

Yelp is going to use AI to stitch together user-posted content about restaurants, food, and nightlife businesses to make short videos about those businesses. The company initially started testing the AI-stitched videos last year, but they’re now available nationwide on the iOS app’s TikTok-like vertically scrolling home feed. Business operators can’t currently see the videos that are generated for users, and Yelp users also can’t currently opt out of having their photos or videos show up in Yelp’s AI-stitched videos. Yelp wants to make “as many videos as possible,” Yelp CPO Craig Saldanha tells The Verge, but will only make them if a restaurant has enough reviews, photos, and videos to tell a compelling story. The AI-stitched videos follow other AI-focused features from Yelp, like review summaries and review filters.

3 weeks, 4 days ago: The Verge