Google’s Veo 3.1 is best 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 offered to attempt at this time 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 presents higher “immediate adherence,” in accordance with Google, and will have a neater time creating movies based mostly on the picture “substances” you add alongside your written immediate. Veo 3.1 additionally makes it attainable to transform photographs to video and generate audio on the similar time, a functionality that wasn’t accessible with Veo 3.

In Circulation, Veo 3.1 helps not less than a brand new function that provides 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, presents a similar feature, however Circulation will have the ability to pull it off and create audio on the similar time. These added audio expertise may also apply to the video editor’s capacity 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 fluctuate significantly 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 attempt to make Veo extra helpful to individuals who truly work with video reasonably than a supply of social media spam is a welcome transfer.