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 out there to strive as we speak via Google’s Gemini API and is now additionally powering the corporate’s Move 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 presents higher “immediate adherence,” in response to Google, and may have a better time creating movies primarily based on the picture “components” you add alongside your written immediate. Veo 3.1 additionally makes it potential to transform photographs to video and generate audio on the identical time, a functionality that wasn’t out there with Veo 3.
In Move, Veo 3.1 helps no less than a brand new characteristic that offers you finer management over the movies you generate. With what Google calls “Body to Video,” Move permits you to add a primary and final body, after which generates the video in-between. Adobe Firefly, which is powered by Veo 3, presents an identical characteristic, however Move will have the ability to pull it off and create audio on the identical time. These added audio abilities will even apply to the video editor’s capability to increase clips and insert objects into present 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 drastically relying on the immediate and topic. Even when it is lacking among the realism of OpenAI’s Sora 2, although, the corporate’s determination to attempt to make Veo extra helpful to individuals who really work with video quite than a supply of social media spam is a welcome transfer.