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

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 photographs into movies. Veo 3.1 is out there to attempt in the present day 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 response to 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 potential to transform photographs to video and generate audio on the identical time, a functionality that wasn’t out there with Veo 3.

In Stream, Veo 3.1 helps no less than a brand new function that offers you finer management over the movies you generate. With what Google calls “Body to Video,” Stream helps 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 be capable of pull it off and create audio on the identical time. These added audio abilities may also apply to the video editor’s means 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 range significantly 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 resolution to attempt to make Veo extra helpful to individuals who truly work with video quite than a supply of social media spam is a welcome transfer.