Google’s Veo 3.1 is healthier at producing movies from pictures

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 offered to attempt right this moment via 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 gives higher “immediate adherence,” in keeping with Google, and may have a neater time creating movies primarily based on the picture “components” you add alongside your written immediate. Veo 3.1 additionally makes it attainable to transform pictures to video and generate audio on the identical time, a functionality that wasn’t accessible with Veo 3.

In Stream, Veo 3.1 helps no less than a brand new function that provides you finer management over the movies you generate. With what Google calls “Body to Video,” Stream enables you to add a primary and final body, after which generates the video in-between. Adobe Firefly, which is powered by Veo 3, gives a similar feature, however Stream will have the ability to pull it off and create audio on the identical time. These added audio expertise may even apply to the video editor’s potential 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 vastly 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 really work with video slightly than a supply of social media spam is a welcome transfer.