Google’s Veo 3.1 is healthier at p...

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 photos into movies. Veo 3.1 is accessible to strive at present 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 gives higher “immediate adherence,” in accordance 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 photos to video and generate audio on the identical time, a functionality that wasn’t out there with Veo 3.

In Circulation, 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,” Circulation 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 Circulation will have the ability to pull it off and create audio on the identical time. These added audio expertise can even apply to the video editor’s capacity to increase clips and insert objects into present footage, too.

Based mostly on the samples Google’s shared, movies generated with Veo 3.1 nonetheless have an uncanny high quality that appears to differ enormously 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 try to make Veo extra helpful to individuals who truly work with video somewhat than a supply of social media spam is a welcome transfer.