Google rolls out its AI video generator to Gemini Advanced subscribers

Google is letting Gemini Advanced subscribers effort retired Veo 2, its text-to-video AI exemplary that it says is susceptible of creating high-resolution clips with “cinematic realism.” Starting today, subscribers tin prime Veo 2 from the Gemini exemplary dropdown connected the web and mobile, wherever they tin participate a punctual to make an eight-second video successful 720p.

There’s a bounds to however galore videos subscribers tin make each month, and Google says it volition notify users erstwhile they attack it. Veo 2 outputs videos successful an MP4 format, but users connected mobile besides person the enactment to upload them straight to TikTok and YouTube with the “share” button.

Google says the upgraded AI exemplary has a “better knowing real-world physics and quality motion,” allowing it to present “fluid quality movement, lifelike scenes and finer ocular details crossed divers subjects and styles.” Videos generated with Veo 2 diagnostic SynthID integer watermarks, indicating that they’ve been made with AI.

Along with Veo 2, Google is making Whisk Animate — a instrumentality that lets you alteration an representation into an eight-second video with Veo 2 — disposable to Google One AI Premium subscribers. This builds upon Google’s existing Whisk tool, which lets you make AI-generated mashups of images. Whisk Animate is disposable to subscribers globally through Google Labs.

Google archetypal launched Veo 2 successful early entree successful December, with the instrumentality costing 50 cents per second of video successful the company’s Vertex AI platform. YouTube has since added Veo 2 to its experimental Dream Screen feature, which lets users make AI-generated video clips for Shorts.