YouTube is plugging Veo 3 AI videos directly into Shorts

YouTube is bringing its Veo 3 AI video procreation model, which my workfellow Allison Johnson precocious called “a slop monger’s dream,” to YouTube Shorts aboriginal this summer, according to a Cannes Lions keynote from YouTube CEO Neal Mohan.

Shorts creators tin already instrumentality vantage of the previous-generation Veo 2 exemplary to generate backgrounds with Dream Screen arsenic good arsenic standalone clips. Mohan didn’t specify precisely what Veo 3 volition alteration successful Shorts, but helium did notation Veo 3’s improved video quality and that it tin incorporated audio, truthful presumably those upgrades volition beryllium coming to Shorts.

It’s besides unclear if Shorts creators volition person to wage to usage Veo 3. Right now, generating Veo 3 videos requires a paid subscription to Google’s AI Pro oregon AI Ultra plans. Google didn’t instantly reply to a petition for comment. 

Mohan besides announced that Shorts are present averaging much than 200 cardinal views per day.