Google has launched a brand new replace to its Veo AI video era mannequin that ought to make it do a greater job of sticking to prompts and changing photographs into movies. Veo 3.1 is offered to strive at present by Google’s Gemini API and is now additionally powering the corporate’s Circulate video editor.
Veo 3.1 builds on the brand new capabilities Google launched with launch of Veo 3 at Google I/O 2025. The brand new mannequin affords higher “immediate adherence,” in response to Google, and may have a neater time creating movies primarily based on the picture “substances” you add alongside your written immediate. Veo 3.1 additionally makes it attainable to transform photographs to video and generate audio on the similar time, a functionality that wasn’t accessible with Veo 3.
In Circulate, Veo 3.1 helps a minimum of a brand new characteristic that offers you finer management over the movies you generate. With what Google calls “Body to Video,” Circulate allows you to add a primary and final body, after which generates the video in-between. Adobe Firefly, which is powered by Veo 3, affords the same characteristic, however Circulate will have the ability to pull it off and create audio on the similar time. These added audio abilities will even apply to the video editor’s capability to increase clips and insert objects into present footage, too.
Based mostly on the samples Google’s shared, movies generated with Veo 3.1 nonetheless have an uncanny high quality that appears to fluctuate significantly relying on the immediate and topic. Even when it is lacking a few of the realism of OpenAI’s Sora 2, although, the corporate’s determination to attempt to make Veo extra helpful to individuals who truly work with video slightly than a supply of social media spam is a welcome transfer.
