Google’s Veo 3.1 is best at producing movies...

Google has released a brand new replace to its Veo AI video technology mannequin that ought to make it do a greater job of sticking to prompts and changing pictures into movies. Veo 3.1 is accessible to attempt at the moment by way of Google’s Gemini API and is now additionally powering the corporate’s Flow 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 provides higher “immediate adherence,” in accordance with Google, and may have a better time creating movies based mostly on the picture “components” you add alongside your written immediate. Veo 3.1 additionally makes it doable to transform pictures to video and generate audio on the similar time, a functionality that wasn’t out there with Veo 3.

In Movement, Veo 3.1 helps at the least a brand new characteristic that offers you finer management over the movies you generate. With what Google calls “Body to Video,” Movement allows you to add a primary and final body, after which generates the video in-between. Adobe Firefly, which is powered by Veo 3, provides a similar feature, however Movement will be capable to pull it off and create audio on the similar time. These added audio abilities may also apply to the video editor’s means to increase clips and insert objects into current footage, too.

Primarily based on the samples Google’s shared, movies generated with Veo 3.1 nonetheless have an uncanny high quality that appears to fluctuate tremendously relying on the immediate and topic. Even when it is lacking a number of the realism of OpenAI’s Sora 2, although, the corporate’s determination to try to make Veo extra helpful to individuals who truly work with video fairly than a supply of social media spam is a welcome transfer.