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

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 offered to attempt in the present day 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 affords higher “immediate adherence,” in accordance with Google, and will have a neater time creating movies primarily based on the picture “elements” you add alongside your written immediate. Veo 3.1 additionally makes it potential to transform photos to video and generate audio on the similar time, a functionality that wasn’t obtainable with Veo 3.

In Move, Veo 3.1 helps at the very least a brand new function that offers you finer management over the movies you generate. With what Google calls “Body to Video,” Move allows you to add a primary and final body, after which generates the video in-between. Adobe Firefly, which is powered by Veo 3, affords a similar feature, however Move will have the ability to pull it off and create audio on the similar time. These added audio abilities may also apply to the video editor’s means to increase clips and insert objects into current 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 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 try to make Veo extra helpful to individuals who truly work with video quite than a supply of social media spam is a welcome transfer.