What is Veo? Meet Google’s next-gen AI video creator, powered by Imagen 3

AI picture turbines have been all the fad in 2023, however now corporations are shifting focus to the following frontier — AI video technology. With OpenAI unveiling its AI text-to-video generator, Sora, in February 2024, it was solely a matter of time earlier than Google did the identical. 

On Tuesday, at its annual Google I/O developer convention, Google unveiled Veo, its most superior text-to-video generator, able to producing movies with 1080p decision which are over one minute lengthy.

Along with the high-quality output, Google says that Veo offers customers with an “unprecedented degree of artistic management.” The AI generator’s deeper understanding of pure language allows Veo to ship extra particulars from longer prompts and to know cinematic phrases like “timelapse” or “aerial photographs.”  

Moreover, the video generator can deal with a typical drawback with video technology — the fluidity of photographs. In line with Google, Veo can create constant footage, with totally different topics corresponding to individuals, animals, and objects shifting realistically within the photographs. 

Google is not new to video technology. The corporate famous that this mannequin builds on all its prior video-generating tasks, together with Imagen-Video, VideoPoet, and Lumiere.

Like OpenAI’s Sora, Google’s Veo shouldn’t be accessible to the general public but. Quite, Google is sharing Veo first with choose creators in a non-public preview inside VideoFX. Google does, nonetheless, invite that you simply be part of a waitlist to ultimately strive the mannequin.

Moreover, Google unveiled Imagen 3, its highest-quality text-to-image mannequin to this point. Imagen 3, which boasts improved picture high quality and fewer visible artifacts, can also be restricted to a non-public preview inside ImageFX for choose creators and has its personal waitlist.